Project 2: Listening Journal
· Due 26 Apr by 20:00
· Points 100
· Submitting a file upload
· File types pdf
· Available 4 Mar at 0:00 - 3 Jun at 23:59
Weight: 40%
Due date: Week 7, Friday, 8:00pm (AEST, local time in Melbourne)
Assessment format: PDF submitted via Canvas upload
Grading Criteria: Project 2 Grading Criteria Rubric
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Choose one of the sonic environments you investigated in Project 1 to explore further across projects 2, 3 and 4. Conduct a multimodal sonic investigation into that place, with a focus on your listening perspective.
Part 1: Sonic Investigation
You must visit your chosen location at least three separate times. Note the date, time of day and weather conditions of your visits. Over the course of your investigations, you must use at least three different documentation techniques from the following list:
· Soundwalk (audio-recorded, narrated and/or annotated afterwards)
· Stationary audio recording
· Field notes
· Sound mapping
· Quantitative sound measurements
· Photography/video
· Sketching or illustration
...or another method with prior discussion and written confirmation from one of your lecturers. You may choose to use multiple documentation techniques on the same visit, OR one different documentation technique per visit.
Part 2: Analysis
Review your documentation results and analyse each type of documentation separately (e.g. analysis of sound maps; analysis of sound measurements; analysis of soundwalks).
Analyse and describe the key soundscape features identified through each documentation method, making reference to Amphoux's Signal, Ambience and Background Sonic Composition orders and CRESSON's Sonic Effects. You may wish to analyse other soundscape features relevant to your project interests (e.g. rhythms, types of sounds, spectral information, sound levels).
Part 3: Reflection
Critically reflect on and respond to the following questions:
· What is your relationship to the place you investigated? How has that relationship developed across your project work?
· Why did you choose to investigate this location? Make reference to your responses to Project 1. What was/is compelling to you about this place, and why did you chose this one to continue your investigations?
· What did you learn about this sonic environment and your experience of it in your investigations? Make reference to your fieldwork where relevant.
· Based on your listenings, what do you want to share, express, communicate or represent about this sonic environment?
DELIVERABLES
Compile the work you have done across Parts 1, 2 and 3 into a PDF listening journal of at least 2,000 words and upload via Canvas. Sound or video files should be included as hyperlinks to publicly-shared uploads. If you would like to submit your listening journal in another format (eg. blog posts), you must discuss this with and receive written confirmation from your lecturers prior to submission.
Listening Journal submission must include the following:
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon successful completion of this assessment, you will be able to:
· Apply your listening skills for identifying and analysing the principal components of a soundscape,
· Integrate a range of electroacoustic and acoustic measurement technologies, with subjective listener assessment for soundscape research,
· Critically discuss and present design ideas and findings about a soundscape using aural, oral and visual methods