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Vancouver Soundscape Chronicles }{ Bell Tower of False Creek }{ Phase 3: Super 8

This is the film component of the Bell Tower of False Creek project. The full 10-minute version will premiere at Resonance and Remembrance: An Interdisciplinary Bell Studies Symposium at the University of Michigan in March 2017. Preview Edit: Synopsis: A thick fog gathers under Vancouver’s Burrard Bridge in the winter of 2013, blotting out the […]

Vancouver Soundscape Chronicles }{ Bell Tower of False Creek

“Bell Tower of False Creek” is a multimedia research/creation project investigating the rich history and complex sociocultural dynamics in play in the area surrounding Burrard Bridge, which spans False Creek in Vancouver, BC, Canada. It began while on assignment making new recordings for the archive of the World Soundscape Project as part of my postdoctoral […]

Vancouver Soundscape Chronicles }{ My Arrival

It’s World Listening Day!  To help mark the day I am beginning a new blog series reporting on my post-doctoral research with the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University.  I begin with my arrival on campus and immersion within the WSP community last fall. September 2012 was a spectacular time to be in Vancouver. […]

Posted on July 18, 2013 at 9:16 pm by rjordan · Permalink · One Comment
In: Architecture, Film Sound, Sound Technology, Vancouver Soundscape

4’33” in the Soundscape of a Haunted Guggenheim

The first time I went into Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum in New York City a couple of years ago I was immediately confronted with a cacophony that suggested a blatant case of the sight-centered approach to architecture from which so many modernist buildings suffer: looks fantastic, and sounds awful.  Or as R. Murray Schafer […]