The acoustic ecology of a space often tells a story of
intervention and the relationship between the quality of the
land surface, the vegetation, and the sounds of habitation,
be they human or otherwise
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/151740266.pdf
Conclusion
Listen gives voice to a wide range of constituencies: to communities living in proximity to the featured sites; to communities distant from these sites; and to the nonhuman and non-sentient constituents of these sites. The digital tools and dynamic website facilitate both a disruption of traditional visitation of pristine natural environments and simultaneously through this remediation, a broadened access. Listen uses technologies to question
embodied experience and to encourage new forms of embodied actions. It integrates significant discussions about
sound, sustainability, and the place of human experience
through creative storytelling, digital mapping, and community collaboration. Listen builds important connections
between the humanities, the environmental sciences, and
media arts through development of new technologies, interdisciplinary research, creative endeavors as well as educational and outreach initiatives. It seeks to foster new environmentally aware communities who through social media can use their voice as stewards of these protected, yet
vulnerable landscapes.
Given such ever-growing challenges as environmental
degradation and climate change, the multifaceted outcomes
of this project will hopefully nurture more sustainable lifestyles and stabilize park ecosystems. The participating
communities will learn to critically interpret their relationships to natural and built environments through new forms
of listening enabled by technology. Across each of these
outcomes, sound plays an important role for establishing
and cultivating individual/community agency and environmental stewardship. In giving voice to individuals and
community members to articulate their own positions in
these natural spaces, Listenn opens up new opportunities
for exploring the import
In conclusion for myself, this felt like a project that embraced ideas of whether sound can create a positive environmental change, using sound with other mediums, providing a fundamental archive and allowing those who aren’t exposed to this landscape and those who are a different experience that challenges the embodied idea of sound.