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Field Recordings of Former South London Windmills

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2011

Dan Scott
Dan Scott*
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27 Park Road, Faversham, ME13 8ET, UK
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E-mail: danscott78@ymail.com
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Abstract

This is an essay exploring issues of essentialism, sound-in-itself and representation that were central to a project I completed in 2010. It covers this project in the context of theory and work by Seth Kim-Cohen, CREED, Don Ihde and Annea Lockwood.

The field recording is often presented in sound art as an unproblematic account of a sonic event or environment. It also prompts a particular kind of listening that approaches the sound as somehow real or accurate. This article, and my work in general, problematises this encounter and seeks to uncover the various approaches to listening that occur when dealing with field recordings, as well as the possibilities within field recordings for exploring essentialism, imagined sound and the conceptual.

Type
Research Article
Information
Organised Sound , Volume 16 , Issue 3: Sound, Listening and Place I , December 2011 , pp. 230 - 233
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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