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Alarcon, Ximena (2009) Sounding underground. [Art/Design Item]
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| Creators: | Alarcon, Ximena | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | Sounding Underground is a virtual environment that invites users to interact with the soundscapes of three underground public transport systems: London, Paris and México City. Commuters’ memories and imaginations are represented in sounds and images that have been selected by volunteer commuters through an ethnographic process. These sounds are assembled in a sound score that acts as a multimedia user’s interface. The score contains sonic features unique to each metro, as well as some shared sonic spaces. Sounding Underground also invites you to write memories in text, produced by listening. These memories are being published randomly in the "Listening and Remembering" page. This is an interdisciplinary practice-based research nourished by an ethnographic method. Volunteer commuters in each city have recorded their journeys, selected sounds and images, and (in Paris and Mexico) participated in a networked improvisation. They have uploaded contributions, to the projects' database, nourishing the Sounding Underground virtual environment and the Networked Improvisation. Both these artworks consider the individual profound experiences and open space for the sharing of memories of commuting underground. This research was funded by The Leverhulme Trust - Early Career Fellowship 2007 - 2009, and took place in the Institute of Creative Technologies - De Montfort University. |
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| Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | soundscape, listening studies, urban culture, interactive sonic environment | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Communication Research Centres/Networks > Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) |
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| Date: | 26 October 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Ximena Alarcón | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Funders: | The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship 2007-2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Related Websites: | http://soundingunderground.org/, http://soundingunderground.wordpress.com/, http://artes.ucp.pt/citarj/issue/view/3/showToc, http://2010.javamuseum.org/?page_id=780, http://www.sensatejournal.com/2011/03/ximena-alarcon-sounding-underground/, http://trampoline.org.uk/tracingmobility/events/event/ximena-alarcon-interactive-installation-sounding-underground | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Related Exhibitions: | Women and Identity – Group Exhibition. Deep Listening Institute, Kingston, Java Museum NewMediaFest 2010 Cologne - Global Heritage Digital Culture, Fonoteca Nacional de Mexico, November 2010, 100 Artists/100 Dreams Preview. La Leona Arts. Deep Listening Institute, Kingston | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date INSPACE New Media Art Centre. University of Edinburgh. Sensory Worlds Conference. 7 December 2011 10 December 2011 Haus der Kulturen der Welt : Berlin : Germany
Tracing Mobilities/ Open Platform 26 November 2011 27 November 2011 Slade Centre, London. UCL. Cities Methodologies 4 May 2011 7 May 2011 Media Active Festival, Student Union - Towson University, Towson, Maryland, USA 30 March 2011 30 March 2011 VI Monographic Show of Media Art, Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales-Colombia. 13 April 2010 17 April 2010 Riders on the train, Axiom Centre for New and Experimental Media, Boston MA 10 November 2009 19 December 2009 |
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| Material/Media: | internet-based interactive sonic environment (website) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 06 Mar 2012 10:50 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 09 Nov 2023 04:46 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Item ID: | 5070 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/5070 |
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