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A year ago, the #Somecoproject visited you to document the community's #soundscape. We still need some help from the people of #Skruv in #Lessebo municipality for our research. Please help us you by filling out this form:
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The Soundscapes of Curling: From Lago Santo to the Olympics - SOMECO - Sonic Mediations and Ecocritical Listening Text & Pictures: Kaj Ahlsved When the Someco team arrived in Cembra, we had no idea that the sport of curling was practiced at the absolute highest level there. However, already at breakfast on the fi...

Did you know that #curling is called "the roaring game"? Well, neither did I until i visited #Cembra. Fascination sport, sounds and very good tv sport. #olympics #somecoproject #soundscape

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Local Jukeboxes and International Media Conglomerates - SOMECO - Sonic Mediations and Ecocritical Listening Text: Heikki Uimonen; Picture: Rowe Service Manual In the 1970s, Nauvo had one licensed venue where you could enjoy a few drinks with friends and spend the evening out. As in many other small Finnish ...

Heikki on #Nauvo service station jukebox in the 1970s: ”As one of our interviewees pointed out, depending on the season, you first had to take a boat or walk on the ice, then catch the bus, and finally walk the rest of the way.”

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Book cover of Don Stap: Birdsong

Last (!) day of fieldwork, oh dear. Running the machine down with this lovely book. Since Feb we have accumulated approx. 200 km of listening walks, 800 recordings + 100h automated recordings, dozen pounds interviews, few kilos surveys, a bus load of new friends and research notes 🪇🐋

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Nice views for Sunday evening decibel meterings at #Nauvo. Lots of fledgling waterbird action.

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On the Move: Secular and Sacred Tourism  - SOMECO - Sonic Mediations and Ecocritical Listening Text: Heikki Uimonen My field notes from the first listening walks on 3 June on the south side of Nauvo main street read as follows: “A lawnmower, a garbage truck and a concrete truck – clearly mornin...

Heikki on 1000 years of pilgrims and tourists in #Nauvo.

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Why I stopped my sound diary on the 3rd day - SOMECO - Sonic Mediations and Ecocritical Listening Text, picture & sound: juL McOISANS The sound diary is one of the protocols we use in this village survey with local school children. Like any good student, I started mine on the first day of arriving...

juL McOisans about writing a sound diary in #Lesconil, school assignment style. It's not that straight forward after all. BTW juL was part of the team already 25 years ago!

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The last of six 24h traffic counts has begun (quite pleased). Morning 5am at #Nauvo, sun is up, a little humidity in the air, food lorries delivering their goods to both duopoly stores (S and K) and people attending to graves of relatives. Counted 9 different birds.

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Today is #listeningwalk day in #Nauvo. We walk the same route(s) at five different times of a day. I found this interesting spot where new asphalt meets old. It is a no brainer that the sounds from traffic is more silent on the new surface.

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We are in #Nauvo! The last of our six villages. Started briskly with listening walks. 7 am it was calm and sunny, mainly ventilators, recycle trucks, phylloscopus trochilus and line of vehicles from the ferry every 15min. The new silent asphalt works like a miracle.

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Miltä #Nauvo kuulostaa? Mikä on muuttunut – ja miksi?
Olemme erittäin kiinnostuneita kuulemaan vastauksesi näihin kysymyksiin. Kutsumme lämpimästi kaikkia nauvolaisia osallistumaan kaksikieliseen verkkokyselyymme ja kertomaan näkemyksiään asiasta:
👉 bit.ly/nauvo-enkat

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Hur låter #Nagu? Vad har förändrats – och varför?
Vi är mycket intresserade av att höra dina svar på dessa frågor. Vi välkomnar därför varmt alla Nagubor attt dela med sig av sina tankar genom att delta i vår tvåspråkiga webbenkät:
👉 bit.ly/nauvo-enkat

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Last day in #Dollar, last recordings, interviews, documentations to be done. Can’t believe we’re heading home after 6 weeks of this academic interrail. We have a really great team tho. Tired but happy.

In this pic I record 🐝🐝 Pic by Tasha Currie who was a big help for us here!

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Aaand that’s a rap, traffic count night shift ends on my part. All the birds are asleep, last customers exit the pub, the burn runs under a starlit sky.

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Kaj got some local #soundscape competence!
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Lentil soup bubbling on a stove.

So, our fieldwork consists of 10 days in 6 European small towns. Not all have hotels or restaurants, nor accommodations have kitchens. Yes, we have allergies. To make do we have carried food with us and made interesting dishes, with eg coffee makers. Behold, the joy, of proper food!

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Today is listening walk day in #Dollar. My walking area is the south-east part of town where sounds of Dollar and Kelly burns flowing are a company.

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THE SOUND OF DOLLAR Sat 17 May, 2pm - 4pm, The Hive What does Dollar sound like—and how has it changed over time, from 1975 until today? Meet the Finnish research group SOMECO (University of Eastern Finland) and join a friendly discussion about the everyday sounds of Dollar. Share your memories, experiences, and hopes for the future #soundscape. All welcome!

THE SOUND OF DOLLAR
a community listening event
Sat 17 May, 2pm - 4pm, The Hive

What does Dollar sound like—and how has it changed over time, from 1975 until today?

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We have arrived in #Dollar, Scotland! The view from Castle Campbell is quite the treat, and walking down we heard the #DollarAcademy pipe band practising 🥁 Looking forward to the next 9 days here. Saturday we will have a community event at The Hive @ 2pm, all welcome!

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Au revoir #Lesconil! You were kind to us and fed us well with crépes and salty caramel sauce. The film crew of Stefano and Carlo will stay over the weekend, the research team heads to Dollar, Scotland. But first a few days off in London (no metadata excel to fill,hooray!)

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The Notre Dame de la mer bell tower seen from the West.

Listening and recording the acoustic profile of the Notre Dame de la mer church bells, from North, South, East and West at the same time. They ring only at 7, 12 and 19. The winds make the whole endeavour a tiny bit debatable but they do sound very nice.

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Acoustic and Imagined Communities - SOMECO - Sonic Mediations and Ecocritical Listening Text: Heikki Uimonen On Saturday 3rd May at 04:00, we started the traffic count and 24-hour recording with our colleagues from Cresson. We were determined to categorise all the vehicles and people in ...

”At that particular moment and place, her affordance was constructed from a real-time acoustic environment and a two-channel mediated reality of 19th century opera and smartphone media feeds.

Imagine her on a balcony in 1975.”

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A Foreign Language in the Ear—Reflections on listening, language, and soundscape research en route to Lesconil - SOMECO - Sonic Mediations and Ecocritical Listening Train to Quimper, Brittany. On the journey from Paris toward Quimper, I listen to archival recordings from the fishing village of Lesconil, made in 1975 and 2000 as part of the Five Village Soundscape...

Anne points out some fascinating reflections while listening the archival #soundscape recordings from #Lesconil on the train here.

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Today: parabolic experiments. Happy First of May, people! 🥳💪🏼

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Songs out of season: Climate change and the changing rhythms of wine production - SOMECO - Sonic Mediations and Ecocritical Listening Text & photo: Kaj Ahlsved The first thing that struck me when we drove up by bus from Trento to Cembra was that the slopes were filled with structures for cultivating various types of grapes for wine ...

The SOMECO-team has already made it to Lesconil, France, but here is a "belated" blog text from our fieldwork in Cembra.

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Morning in #Lesconil started with 7am listening walk. Light wind from East, the bakeries are open (rustling bags, chatting), and troglodytes troglodytes singing away. High tide makes the sea sound closer and louder. Yellow-legged gull galore.

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Sailing boats at a harbour in Lesconil.

We have arrived in #Lesconil (the 4/6 of the villages we study), and so has the low tide. Yesterday evening was calm and warm ”as bird’s milk” (a Finnish saying). Tomorrow we do listening walks: we were comparing the routes of 2000 and aligning them to current infra.

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Valley Soundscapes Near and Far - SOMECO - Sonic Mediations and Ecocritical Listening Text: Heikki Uimonen A hiking trail from Cembra to Lago Santo is accompanied by the sound of a stream running through the nearby gorge. Before reaching the woods above the village, the hiker is greete...

Heikki writes about our day at a baitá.

”These #soundscapes are at once traditional, modern and mediated, social, global and religious, depending on how one is inclided to interpret them. Most importantly, they are human.”

Thank you #Cembra for your hospitality ❤️

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Next: Lesconil! But first, Paris. 6h to read of acoustic weird.

”I listened till I grew cold listening, but it rapped and it rapped, and by and by it was morning, and it stopped. Rats! Mice! Wind! Broken plaster! Crickets! Imagination! Dreams! Fancies! Blind headache! Nonsense!”

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The fountain at Piazza Ricci is opened after winter and water is running, just in time for the decibel meterings.

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