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This paper is focused on the development of a large-scale personal compositional practice centered around the concept of placemaking. Its content is focused on the relationship between data analysis, data sonification, and musical structure in the development of art which engages in a practice which I refer to as ‘sonic placemaking.’ In the end, this research intends to put this artistic practice in a space to interrogate the relationship between art and social change, both on small and large scales. The different sections of the paper will provide context and support for my practice's conceptual and philosophical background, drawing on related theoretical writings in geography, sociology, fine art, and composition while guiding the reader through my process in executing these concepts through works of multimedia art and acoustic composition — and, at the same time, actively questioning the ability of this process to influence social change and worldmaking.

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Isaac Barzso - Sonic Placemaking: (Re)Creating Place as a Comprehensive Compositional Practice - 2023

  • Contents
    • Sonic Placemaking — a Graphic Structural Guide
    • Research Paper PDF
    • Preface and Acknowledgements
    • Introduction
    • I. Placemaking activity as artistic practice: Defining space and place
    • II. Sound gathering, sonic extraction, and “depiction”
    • Date not remembered
    • III. Repetition, rootedness, and uprootedness
    • (almost always is nearly enough: Repetition as a structural basis
    • IV. A world in constant flux: phantom islands, saltwater superstructures and welcomed not belonging
    • V. Data sonification and reimagining the future: Untitled.exe
    • Conclusion
    • Appendix
    • Bibliography
    • Isaac Barzso
  • Meta
  • Comments
  • Terms
  • contents
    • Sonic Placemaking — a Graphic Structural Guide
    • Research Paper PDF
    • Preface and Acknowledgements
    • Introduction
    • I. Placemaking activity as artistic practice: Defining space and place
    • II. Sound gathering, sonic extraction, and “depiction”
    • Date not remembered
    • III. Repetition, rootedness, and uprootedness
    • (almost always is nearly enough: Repetition as a structural basis
    • IV. A world in constant flux: phantom islands, saltwater superstructures and welcomed not belonging
    • V. Data sonification and reimagining the future: Untitled.exe
    • Conclusion
    • Appendix
    • Bibliography
    • Isaac Barzso
  • abstract
    This paper is focused on the development of a large-scale personal compositional practice centered around the concept of placemaking. Its content is focused on the relationship between data analysis, data sonification, and musical structure in the development of art which engages in a practice which I refer to as ‘sonic placemaking.’ In the end, this research intends to put this artistic practice in a space to interrogate the relationship between art and social change, both on small and large scales. The different sections of the paper will provide context and support for my practice's conceptual and philosophical background, drawing on related theoretical writings in geography, sociology, fine art, and composition while guiding the reader through my process in executing these concepts through works of multimedia art and acoustic composition — and, at the same time, actively questioning the ability of this process to influence social change and worldmaking.
  • Isaac Barzso - Sonic Placemaking: (Re)Creating Place as a Comprehensive Compositional Practice - 2023
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