Fluvial Tones: An Audio Exploration of a Shifting Riverscape
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: This reflective paper considers Fluvial Tones, an 8.15 minute audio track, I created by combining field recordings of the River Lee (Cork, Ireland) with short excerpts from interviews to explore the waterway as a confluence of human-environment relations. Rivers are an acute example of the Anthropocene as natural systems that have been directly and indirectly altered by socio-economic actions over millennia. By deploying the unique capacities to sound to evoke reactions to places, Fluvial Tones is discussed as an aural artefact to experience the specifics of the case study, while also connecting to the (mis)uses of rivers more generally.
DOI: 10.16997/ahip.12
Author: Richard Scriven
Institution: University College Cork
Language: English
Topic: Sound Studies and Aurality
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3049220270