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27.5.2025

Mind the step (by step)

Text & picture: juL McOISANS The rocks of Goudoul are my favorit place in Lesconil. Not necessarily for sonic reasons.  25 years ago I came here to record this famous stereo-speleophonie, when the tide is rising and waves, getting short and shorter, are insinuating through the most little interstices of each rock, suggesting me, with […]

19.5.2025

Another listening walk after quarter of a century

Text: Heikki Uimonen Listening walk is sensory evaluation of the environment. It can be carried out in several different ways. I have tried to combine both quantitative and qualitative approaches: categorising sounds heard and at the same time jotting any potentially interesting sound events constructing the environment.  While conducting ethnographic observations, it is advisable to document […]

16.5.2025

Chasing sounds in Dollar (on an empty stomach)

Text & pictures: Kaj Ahlsved We have now arrived in Dollar, and our ears are slowly but surely starting to get tuned in to Dollar’s sonic environment. When meeting people, we usually point out that its they – the locals – who are the real experts on their sonic environment. We, the researchers, don’t have […]

5.5.2025

Acoustic and Imagined Communities

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 the centre of Lesconil: cars, boats, bicycles, pedestrians, etc., in order to detect any changes in traffic flow compared to the studies […]

1.5.2025

A Foreign Language in the Ear—Reflections on listening, language, and soundscape research en route to Lesconil

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 Soundscapes (FVS) and Acoustic Environments in Change (AEiC) research projects. These sounds come from the very fieldwork site we are now headed to with the SOMECO project. Two of the recordings document a fish auction. I know this because the information is provided in the descriptions of the recordings (Schafer 1977/2009, 401; Järviluoma et al. 2009, 414). I don’t understand a single word of the language spoken.

30.4.2025

Songs out of season: Climate change and the changing rhythms of wine production

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 production. For winegrowers, climate change is a reality and brings new challenges — for example, drought, heat, heavy […]

23.4.2025

Valley Soundscapes Near and Far

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 greeted by the sound of the revving engines of mopeds, which can be heard clearly from the valley and for miles […]

20.4.2025

“You hear more dogs than children”: Workshop on sound and change in Cembra

Text: Kaj Ahlsved, Heikki Uimonen, Meri Kytö As a method of eliciting information from the expert listeners of the villages – the villagers themselves – SOMECO team organises public workshops during our fieldwork. Apart from that, we are aiming to present our project to those interested and to bring back the earlier research results to […]

17.4.2025

How Not to Be Seen: Digital Ethnography and Visibility

Text: Heikki Uimonen ‘The camera is a tool for idlers, who use a machine to do their seeing for them. To draw oneself, to trace the lines, handle the volumes, organise the surface… all this means first to look, and then to observe and finally perhaps to discover…’ (Le Corbusier in Kortan 1997/2005, 28). Le Corbusier’s […]

15.4.2025

Echoes of Cembra: Village Soundscape at the Turn of the Millennium

In 2000, the AEiC (Acoustic Environment in Change) project ventured into the picturesque Cembra Valley in Northern Italy to explore its unique sonic  environment. The blog texts produced during this time offer a fascinating snapshot of a community nestled amidst steep hills, where sounds reflected off ancient stone walls seemed to echo a history shaped by both human activity and the constraints of nature.[1] Revisiting these texts today allows us to reflect on the transformations in Cembra’s sonic landscape—particularly when compared to earlier periods, such as 1975, documented in the Five Village Soundscapes study (Schafer 1975/2009).

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