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A soundscape composition of Sydney's downtown boardwalk. These recordings are an experiment of sonic ethnography that engages the listener with the soundscape of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Each soundmark, a term coined by R Murray Schafer, denotes the sound associated with a geographic locale. I encourage you to think in particular about the second soundmark of the waterfront: listen for the sound of the busking fiddler. It is not a live performance, but a recording played out of a speaker mounted in Sydney’s famous World’s Largest Fiddle. In the background we hear ships and the sounds of construction: the changing sonic landscape of a city trying to revive itself and survive in the wake of the shutdown of the steel plant and the coal mine, and reinvent itself as a historic landmark.
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Title:
Two Soundmarks in Sydney: A Sonic Tour of the Boardwalk
Date Created:
2013-10-18
Description:
A soundscape composition of Sydney's downtown boardwalk. These recordings are an experiment of sonic ethnography that engages the listener with the soundscape of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Each soundmark, a term coined by R Murray Schafer, denotes the sound associated with a geographic locale. I encourage you to think in particular about the second soundmark of the waterfront: listen for the sound of the busking fiddler. It is not a live performance, but a recording played out of a speaker mounted in Sydney’s famous World’s Largest Fiddle. In the background we hear ships and the sounds of construction: the changing sonic landscape of a city trying to revive itself and survive in the wake of the shutdown of the steel plant and the coal mine, and reinvent itself as a historic landmark.
Subjects:
Boardwalk Sydney Big Fiddle 2013
Location:
Sydney; North America; Canada; Cape Breton; 46.139529, -60.197910; 2013
Source:
Diversity Cape Breton
Source Identifier:
diversity:1941; local: AR-03005-01
Type:
Sound
Format:
audio/mp3
Collection:
diversity_148
Attribution
Citation:
"Two Soundmarks in Sydney: A Sonic Tour of the Boardwalk", Diversity Cape Breton, Diversity Cape Breton, https://diversitycapebreton.ca//items/diversity_1941.html
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