Sound Is Our Prime Sense
«Sound is our prime sense of all-around spatiality and listening gives us a point of ear. It enables us judge how far we are from the events and to ask how we might feel and react in the circumstances.»
The quote is taken from the article «Field Recording as Sonic Journalism» published 2012 on the website «Sounds from Dangerous Places». Last accessed December 14 2020.
Biography
Peter Cusack is a field recordist, musician and researcher with a long interest in the sound environment. Projects include community arts, researches into sound and our sense of place and documentary recordings in areas of special sonic interest (Lake Baikal, Siberia). His project Sounds From Dangerous Places explores soundscapes at sites of major environmental damage - Chernobyl exclusion zone; Caspian oil fields; UK nuclear sites. This project continues and is currently researching the regeneration of the North Aral Sea, Kazakhstan. He describes the use of sound to investigate documentary issues as sonic journalism. Follow him on Youtube, and Bandcamp.
Published on January 01, 2012
Last updated on April 03, 2024
Topics
Listening
A generative practice that promotes different knowledge. One that listens is never at a distance but always in the middle of the sound heard.
Soundscape
How do acoustic environments affect human life? In which way can a city entail sounds of repression?
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