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On Sonification of Place: Psychosonography and Urban Portrait*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2009

Dani Iosafat
Dani Iosafat
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Seesener Str. 70f, Berlin 10709, Germany E-mail: danijoss@yahoo.com
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Abstract

Urban Portrait: Thessaloniki is a sonic art installation by this author, presented at the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts of Middlesex University, London, in May 2008. This article constitutes an exploration of sonic representation of the experience of place as a central element of the work. The term psychosonography is introduced to encapsulate the described method and references to its supporting concepts. Urban Portrait is about representation of experienced locality, as well as the emergence of relationships among a collection of such localities through their sonic embodiments. Ultimately, it takes the form of the sonic equivalent of a psychogeographical map, to be navigated by aural means.

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Research Article
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Organised Sound , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , April 2009 , pp. 47 - 55
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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