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Zulfiqar Imani, Alifiyah "Auditory Subcultures and Sonic Flights: In Between Sound and Space." Master of Arts, Media Arts Cultures
, Aalborg University, 2019
Keywords/Fields of Study : sound, space, spatial sound, auditory subculture, aural architecture, reflective practice reflection-in-action, practice-based, sonic environment, sound object, acoustics, listening, ecology
Abstract: The premise for this research is to explore an approach to sound in its interaction with space and postulate how an auditory subculture with a specific approach to spatial acoustics, functions as a form of artistic inquiry in the interdisciplinary landscape of media art and technology.
Tracing a historical approach to address the relationship of sound and spatiality for foundational and theoretical considerations, the larger body of work formulates as an investigation design that
looks to question and identify whether the work of the primary site of this research, Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, Hungary can be seen as an auditory subculture.
The methodological perspective followed; puts media arts studies into conversations with sociological and humanists approach to technology and reflection-in-action framework.
Proposed by MIT scientist Donald A Schön in his seminal work “The Reflective Practitioner”(1983), the adopted methodology situates the author as such and attempts to answer the proposed
research questions through his reflection in action and organizational learning methods; contributing towards knowledge-production of sound and towards the evolving life of sonic cultural thought in a technologically mass-mediated culture that is underrepresented as seen from a media arts perspective.
Moreover, the observed practitioner’s exploration in the Spatial Sound Institute development as a subject of study, draws influence from contemporary ethnographic studies to create the
experience of an aural architecture by highlighting individual, social and cultural meanings of sound and practices of listening as examined through its, its founder, engineers, programmers,
documentarian, artists, and the guiding directive, the ecology of listening between a myriad of different ideas and approaches.
Department: Sound Studies, Media Arts Cultures
, Aalborg University
Advisor(s): Morten Søndergaard, Paul Oomen
