scholarly journals A reassessment of Wolfgang Sichardt’s 1936 field recordings of Swiss yodel

Musicologist ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannick WEY
Keyword(s):  
Field Recordings

Ancient Ways

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Weinel
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Altered State ◽  
Field Recordings ◽  
Spirit World ◽  
Relevant Field ◽  
Altered State Of Consciousness ◽  
And Function ◽  
Role And Function

This chapter discusses shamanism, explaining the ethos and mythology of several indigenous societies, and how these belief systems relate to the design of art and music. First, a general overview of shamanism is provided, which outlines the typical role and function of a shaman. An explanation of the shamanic visionary experience, a type of altered state of consciousness, is then provided. Following this, the chapter explores a variety of visual art from indigenous shamanic cultures, including examples from San, Native American, Huichol, Tukano, and Shipibo traditions. The sound and music of shamanic and trance cultures is also discussed, with reference to Vodou, Tukano, Mazatec, Kiowa, and Mayan examples, and relevant field recordings. Through the course of this discussion, the chapter establishes a view of how shamanic art and music invoke a sense of the spirit world, which informs the subsequent discourse of Inner Sound.

Teachers as Agents of the Repatriation of Music and Cultural Heritage

2018 ◽  
pp. 282-302
Author(s):  
Patricia Shehan Campbell ◽  
J. Christopher Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Children's Music ◽  
Home Culture ◽  
Field Recordings ◽  
Child Centered ◽  
Culture Centered ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Culture Of Origin ◽  
Musical Heritage

As the movement to repatriate music from archives gathers steam, the question of how to effectively disseminate the music to people in the culture of origin becomes a pressing issue. This chapter argues that K–12 teachers have a distinctive ability to reintroduce archival music, through three major approaches. In “close-by child-songs by children,” teachers design lessons that incorporate field recordings of children’s music from their home culture, making the music child-centered (and culture-centered). In “child-songs from further afield,” lessons include archived children’s music that is not from the home cultures of the students; such lessons can highlight the similarities across cultures of children’s music. In “adult cultural heritage music,” teachers use the recordings of adults’ musicking experiences in the culture of origin. As such, the music of children is not represented, but the adult musical heritage is disseminated. Examples of these pedagogical approaches to repatriation are provided.

What determines the amplitude of stationary peaks in far-field recordings?

1985 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. S71-S72 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Kimura ◽  
A. Kimura ◽  
T. Ishida ◽  
M. Machida ◽  
T. Yamada
Keyword(s):  
Far Field ◽  
Field Recordings

scholarly journals London Street Noises: A Ground-Breaking Field Recording Campaign from 1928

Acoustics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-136
Author(s):  
John L. Drever ◽  
Aysegul Yildirim ◽  
Mattia Cobianchi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sound ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Recording Technology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Field Recordings ◽  
Field Recording ◽  
Subsequent Discussion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Regulatory Bodies ◽  
The Uk

In a leading article by Sir Percival Philips in the UK popular newspaper, the Daily Mail, July 16, 1928, came the following headlines: “Millions Lost by Noise – Cities’ Worst Plague – Menace to Nerves and Health – What is Being Done to Stop it”. The article was supported by research from Prof Henry J. Spooner, who had been researching and campaigning on the ill-effects of noise and its economic impact. The article sparked subsequent discussion and follow-up articles in the Daily Mail and its international partners. In an era of rapid technological change, that was on the cusp of implementing sound pressure measurements, the Daily Mail, in collaboration with the Columbia Graphophone Company Ltd, experimented with sound recording technology and commentary in the field to help communicate perceived loudness and identify the sources of “unnecessary noise”. This resulted in the making of series of environmental sound recordings from five locations across central London during September 1928, the findings of which were documented and discussed in the Daily Mail at the time, and two recordings commercially released by Columbia on shellac gramophone disc. This was probably the first concerted anti-noise campaign of this type and scale, requiring huge technological efforts. The regulatory bodies and politicians of the time reviewed and improved the policies around urban noise shortly after the presentation of the recordings, which were also broadcast from the BBC both nationally and internationally, and many members of the public congratulated and thanked the Daily Mail for such an initiative. Despite its unpreceded scale and impact, and the recent scholarly attention on the history of anti-noise campaigning, this paper charts and contextualises the Daily Mail’s London Street Noise campaign for the first time. As well as historical research, this data has also been used to start a longitudinal comparative study still underway, returning to make field recordings on the site on the 80th and 90th anniversaries and during the COVID-19 lockdown, and shared on the website londonstreetnoises.co.uk.

scholarly journals Field Recording or Field Observation?: Audio Meets Method in Qualitative Research

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Smiley
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Field Observation ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Social Setting ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Field Recordings ◽  
Field Recording ◽  
Clifford Geertz ◽  
Preliminary Research ◽  
Pauline Oliveros

The field observation, an ethnographic practice of collecting data and information about a given social setting and situation is often used in preliminary research to have an understanding of the community one is researching. However, from an artist/musician's perspective, the field observation has many commonalities with techniques used in audio field recording. How can field recording be used in parallel with field observations to explore and understand a community through art? This essay will begin with a comparison of field observations and field recordings as methods in their own disciplines, and continue with the concept of “attention” in art, music, science and anthropology. It will follow and conclude with a project that looks at combining qualitative research and art to explore a community of gardeners through recorded interviews and sounds. The work of Pauline Oliveros, Walter S. Gershon, Clifford Geertz, Anne McCrary Sullivan, and Steven Feld will be important in making the connections across disciplines.

scholarly journals New capabilities of Chetaev´s model

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-114
Author(s):  
Михаил Савин ◽  
Mihail Savin ◽  
Юрий Израильский ◽  
Yuriy Izrailsky
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Plane Waves ◽  
Reflection Coefficients ◽  
Geomagnetic Pulsations ◽  
Energy Fluxes ◽  
Field Recordings ◽  
Inhomogeneous Plane ◽  
Inhomogeneous Plane Wave ◽  
S Model ◽  
Inhomogeneous Plane Waves

This paper considers anomalies in the magnetotelluric field in the Pc3 range of geomagnetic pulsations. We report experimental data on Pc3 field recordings which show negative (from Earth’s surface to air) energy fluxes Sz<0 and reflection coefficients |Q|>1. Using the model of inhomogeneous plane wave (Chetaev’s model), we try to analytically interpret anomalies of energy fluxes. We present two three-layer models with both electric and magnetic modes satisfying the condition |Qh|>1. Here we discuss a possibility of explaining observable effects by the resonance interaction between inhomogeneous plane waves and layered media.

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