Illness, Isolation, and Perceptions of Bells in Bissingen - SOMECO - Sonic Mediations and Ecocritical Listening What does it mean to experience a place from a single point of listening? During a field trip to Bissingen, Germany, illness confined me to my room — and offered an unexpected perspective on church be...

Sometimes fieldwork doesn't go as planned. Here's an illuminating post from Anne who got sick in Bissingen on day 2:

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Listening to the Memory on the Street - SOMECO - Sonic Mediations and Ecocritical Listening Text: Carolin Müller Walking may be just as important to scholars of sonic environments as the sounds encountered in motion. Central to this is the relationship between the human body and the ground i...

A beautiful blog post by our indispensable colleague Carolin Müller, writing about our listening walks in Bissingen. Posaunenchor included 🎺

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Walking downhill from Burg Teck

Thank you Bissingen, we had a wonderful time. See you again 25 years, or hopefully earlier!
with @kajahlsved.bsky.social

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And that finishes our 24h traffic count! It’s 3am, no cars but one weasel. Good night!

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50 years is a long time - SOMECO - Sonic Mediations and Ecocritical Listening Text: Meri Kytö & Kaj Ahlsved Rhythmanalysis in soundscape studies has dominantly meant looking into circadian, daily rhythms. This project opens up a much longer span of time, practically of two gene...

A few thoughts from me and @kajahlsved.bsky.social on rhythmanalysis in a longitudinal soundscape project.

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My route on a map.

Today is listeningwalk day 🚶🏻‍♀️‍➡️🚶🏽‍♂️🚶🏼‍♀️🚶🏼‍➡️. Total of 4 routes/walkers 5 times during the day. Glad the weather is warming up from early morning -1 to +8 (feels like +14) ☀️

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Signals of Change and Continuity: Coahoma County and Bissingen   - SOMECO - Sonic Mediations and Ecocritical Listening Text: Heikki Uimonen Twenty years ago, in my ethnomusicological dissertation on sonic environments, I quoted Alan Lomax. Lomax writes that the musical history of Coahoma County, Mississippi had three ...

"Anthropology - - has tended to understand sound as a phenomenon of mediation and structure, when it should have focused more on the perception of sound and the processes that construct it."

Heikki wandered to Teckberg and wrote about Alan Lomax.

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Today 30min listening exercizes, so-called "prominent sounds heard", in front of the Rathaus. A nice and sunny day, the motorized awnings buzzing away. I like to make Hockney inspired pic collages from the listening spot, enjoy.

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Recording bells

Today we were charting the acoustic profile of the bells of Marienkirche, with little wind from the north-east.
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Bissingen 1975

*Forschungsstudie läuft: Bissingen, kannst du uns hören?*

Liebe Bissinger und Bissingerinnen,

vor etwa 25 Jahren besuchte ein finnisches Forschungsteam den Ort Bissingen, um zu erforschen wie Bissingen klingt.

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