Archive for the ‘Soundwalking’ Category

Winlaw Watersheds

It’s World Listening Day! This year’s theme is “H2O” so I’ve decided to release my 2009 soundscape composition “Winlaw Watersheds” into the wilds of the Internet as a small contribution to the project of collective meditation on our most precious resource and the increasing challenges we face around its regulation and distribution. “Winlaw Watersheds” is […]

Posted on July 18, 2015 at 12:37 am by rjordan · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Acoustic Ecology, Soundscape Composition, Soundwalking

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 }{ Mapping the WSP Archive

The Longitudinal Project: Phase One    [Click above image for link to full version on Google Maps.] This map plots locations that have been revisited for sound recording by the World Soundscape Project across the three iterations of its Vancouver case study over the last 40 years. The pins on the map are each associated with a […]

Posted on September 14, 2013 at 6:19 pm by rjordan · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Acoustic Cartography, Acoustic Ecology, Sound Technology, Soundwalking, Vancouver Soundscape

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 […]