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Psychogeography and Psycho-sonic Cartography : The creation of Ephemeral Place through Electroacoustic Music

Hernandez, Katt LU (2017)
Abstract
As forces like gentrification and globalization affect the fabric of city life, it grows difficult for a single individual to identify their own story, history or place, or shape any part of the cities where they live as unique from any other. How can music, and particularly electroacoustic music, become a way to map new psycho- geographies? Can such music empower others to tell their own stories, beyond material means? Psycho-geography is a way for people to be able to tell their own stories. The ephemeral city can be a way of coming to grips
with an urban environment that changes in rapid and dis-empowering ways. We all create a myriad of ephemeral cities, in the maps we create of the places we live- some real, some imagined.... (More)
As forces like gentrification and globalization affect the fabric of city life, it grows difficult for a single individual to identify their own story, history or place, or shape any part of the cities where they live as unique from any other. How can music, and particularly electroacoustic music, become a way to map new psycho- geographies? Can such music empower others to tell their own stories, beyond material means? Psycho-geography is a way for people to be able to tell their own stories. The ephemeral city can be a way of coming to grips
with an urban environment that changes in rapid and dis-empowering ways. We all create a myriad of ephemeral cities, in the maps we create of the places we live- some real, some imagined. Musicians and sound artists working with spatialization are in the business of creating ephemeral places. Thus, psycho-sonic cartography affords a way for people to create an alternative city through sound- both composer and the listener.
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electroacoustic music, psychogeogrphy, sound art, Urban Studies
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Proceedings of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference, Nagoya, September 2017
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English
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6f26670a-b3a7-49d7-bc7f-965503d47e39
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http://www.ems-network.org/IMG/pdf_EMS17_Hernandez.pdf
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  abstract     = {{As forces like gentrification and globalization affect the fabric of city life, it grows difficult for a single individual to identify their own story, history or place, or shape any part of the cities where they live as unique from any other. How can music, and particularly electroacoustic music, become a way to map new psycho- geographies? Can such music empower others to tell their own stories, beyond material means? Psycho-geography is a way for people to be able to tell their own stories. The ephemeral city can be a way of coming to grips<br/>with an urban environment that changes in rapid and dis-empowering ways. We all create a myriad of ephemeral cities, in the maps we create of the places we live- some real, some imagined. Musicians and sound artists working with spatialization are in the business of creating ephemeral places. Thus, psycho-sonic cartography affords a way for people to create an alternative city through sound- both composer and the listener. <br/>}},
  author       = {{Hernandez, Katt}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference, Nagoya, September 2017}},
  keywords     = {{electroacoustic music; psychogeogrphy; sound art; Urban Studies}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{09}},
  title        = {{Psychogeography and Psycho-sonic Cartography : The creation of Ephemeral Place through Electroacoustic Music}},
  url          = {{http://www.ems-network.org/IMG/pdf_EMS17_Hernandez.pdf}},
  year         = {{2017}},
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