Cymatics is the study of sound waves made visible. Sound frequencies vibrate a surface and create distinct patterns. Sound needs a medium to vibrate, and the characteristics of the medium and sound wave will inform the shape. If you place a metal plate upon a speaker head, place sand upon that plate, and play certain frequencies through the speaker, you will see the sand vibrate into different patterns. If we could see sound around us, we would see expanding spheres with a kaleidoscopic-like pattern on its surface, effecting each other and all molecules in its path.
The interconnectivity of our world is often over looked, often not thought about. It is human nature to categorize, this is part of how we think and communicate. But what is lost when we consider our categories as islands, instead of a part of a whole, a pattern of overlapping systems? There is a saying that the whole of earth and ocean is found within one grain of sand.
1. What do you do?
I am an artist and composer who focuses on listening and the environment in my work. I am often recording my life and my travels, and the recordings or my observances from the recordings end up in my compositions, art installations, and soundwalks. In 2004, I was fortunate enough to find other people interested in sound and the environment and together, we formed The New York Society for Acoustic Ecology (NYSAE), a chapter of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. Through various organizations like the Whitney Museum, the Electronic Music Foundation, and free103point9, we have held events, panel discussions, and performances relating to sound and urban ecology. I am often asked how I “got into sound” and I usually don’t know how to answer it as it feels like I never got out of an interest in acoustics and space. I think that my interest in sound began when I carried around a tape recorder instead of a doll as a child. Perhaps not much has changed as I feel like my compositions reveal a layer of personal narrative conveyed through field recordings that describe how I relate to my environment. Often, my soundwalks do not include sounds that I have recorded; they are about sharing with others what I discovered about listening to the acoustics of a particular place. Points of interest are carefully arranged in guided tours with conceptual elements that emerge as sub-themes.
2. What can that say?
I am mostly interested in the relationship between people the sounds of the urban environment, particularly on how nature is defined by those who live in urban environments. When we slow down to listen to all that is in-between point A and point B, I think that we can begin to enjoy the fine details, even in a noisy city environment. I’ve worked with both children and adults in educational settings in cities who didn’t realize that they had birds living on their street until they were encouraged to listen. And I’ve discovered things like some people don’t like the sounds of birds at all, and they may prefer listening to the sounds of the subway. Sound can be just as subjective and adaptable of an art material as paint.
-Andrea Williams
A drop of water falls into a puddle and creates a wave. A wave is a disturbance that travels through time and space. It affects everything it touches, it creates other waves, it continues colliding and transferring energy to molecules that do the same in turn to other molecules. It can be water, it can be light, it can be sound. It can be many things that collide into our molecules, and our system translates. The water is cold, the light is bright, the sound is loud. This is passive information. But when we actively feel how cooling the water is on a very hot day, when we actively consider how strong that sun is, and when we actively enjoy how the crash of an ocean wave makes our heart race…our world becomes so much richer.
1. What do you do?
Soundscape compositions, soundwalks, listening workshops, lectures, writing, editing, some mentoring of composition students, organizing as part of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) and so on…
2.What can that say?
Everything I do seems to be focused on understanding the world through the act of listening and on the desire to share this understanding with as many people as possible. I believe that every sense perception gives us valuable and important connectedness to and information about the world in which we live. Our hearing sense has been underutilized (certainly in my lifetime, in our societies, nowadays) and a re-balancing of our senses may mean a re-balancing of how we approach life, environment, culture, politics and ideas. Experience in listening and composing has shown me ever new, changing and deepening approaches to space and time. And I wish this for everyone who learns to connect more consciously and deeply to his or her listening. What can that say: listening means noticing means inspiration means energy to do and act.
– Hildegard Westerkamp
World Listening Day is July 18th. You can participate through the World Listening Day organization. Or just take the time, whatever you are doing, to stretch your ears and focus them on the rich acoustic world around you.
1. What do you do?
The World Listening Project maintains a website and online forum about its artistic and educational activities, including public workshops, forums, and lectures, as well as participating in exhibitions, symposiums, and festivals. Phonography and Acoustic Ecology inspired all of this. In the Chicago area, where we began, we formed the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology, a regional chapter of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology. We’re busy now inviting people to participate in the 2011 World Listening Day on July 18, the date of R. Murray Schafer’s birthday. If you visit our website you can learn how to celebrate. It’s quite open and last year the response was phenomenal.
2. What can that say?
Hearing tells us where to look. Wherever we are, every place on the planet has its own soundscape. From moment to moment the soundscape is always changing, often unpredictably. Depending on the time scale, dynamics, and frequency range we can choose to focus attention on. The World Listening Project suggests that listening is active, not passive: that listening means paying attention to the world. And when we do that we can begin to change it in a way conscious way. Bernie Krause has been a supporter. He’s making waves in the field of soundscape ecology. This is what Bernie says: “Western society bases most of what it knows on the visual. We actually ‘hear” what we ‘see.’ The World Listening Project aims to transform that perception in our otherwise urban centric and abstracted lives. At a time when we are facing not only a silent spring, but a silent summer, fall and winter, as well, it is clear that where a picture is worth a thousand words, a soundscape may soon be worth a thousand pictures.
Eric Leonardson of the World Listening Listening Project
Full article published at Sounding Out! the sound studies journal
Graciela Machado, Ana Paula Coutinho
2021
Sílvia Simões, Natasha Antão, Vítor Silva
2020
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2020
978-989-9049-04-8
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Graciela Machado, Teresa Almeida, Ana Margarida Rocha
2020
978-989-9049-00-0
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Graciela Machado, Teresa Almeida, Ana Margarida Rocha
2020
978-989-9049-01-7
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2020
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Susana Lourenço Marques, Vitor Almeida
2020
2184–7991
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2020
978-989-54703-6-5
Português
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Carla Cruz, Hugo Cruz, Isabel Bezelga, Miguel Falcão e Ramon Aguiar
2020
978-989-54417-9-2
português, espanhol, inglês
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José Carlos de Paiva, Mário Bismarck, Sílvia Simões
2019
978-989-54703-3-4
Português
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2019
978-989-54417-7-8
English, Portuguese
The orthodox narrative of Western knowledge is particularly obsessed with clarity. Clarity should be understood here not only as an expression of intelligibility, but also, in terms of light. That the association between knowledge and clarity is a given, veils – that is, does not enlighten – the history of domination, obscurantism, occlusion, suppression of […]
Júlio Dolbeth, Margarida Dias, Rui Vitorino Santos, Tiago Assis
2019
978-989-54703-5-8
Portuguese, English
MEETING ON YOUTH EDUCATION THROUGH ILLUSTRATION [MYETI] is an internacional encounter that took place at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, on 11th October 2019, at the end of the 3rd Edition of the YETI (https://yeti.up.pt). The publication MYETI#0 Livro de atas is composed by the articles that were created from the presentations and that […]
Catarina Martins, Marta Valente, Samuel Guimarães
2019
978-989-54417-3-0
English
International Meeting on Museum Education & Research #1 Rethinking Museum Theory and Practices This publication comes out of the first edition of IMMER #1 International Meeting on Museum Education & Research. Rethinking Museum Theory and Practices that took place at Museu do Douro (Douro Museum), Peso da Régua, Portugal, on the 23rd and 24th May 2018. […]
2019
PT
Publication of the PhD in Fine Arts of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. Registration of exhibitions held during the academic year 2017-2018.
2019
978-989-54417-5-4
PT
This publication presents the work developed between November 2018 and March 2019 in the artistic residence developed at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, within the scope of the first edition of the Photography Biennial of Porto. The exhibition, curated by Susana Lourenço Marques, took place at the Museum of the […]
Francisco Laranjo, Domingos Loureiro, Sofia Torres, Teresa Almeida
2019
978-9889-54417-0-9
PT, ES, EN, FR
2019
978-989-54111-7-7
Português, Espanhol
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Domingos Loureiro, Sofia Torres
2018
978-989-54111-8-4
Português
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2018
978-989-54111-3-9
English, Portuguese
The editorial aim of ‘Artistic Research Does’ is to contribute to the comprehension of artistic and educational research in Portugal. Departing from the problematic framing of research towards, about, as much as, without, according, for, to, in face of, confronted, of, against, with, framed by, under, following, in art (quoting here a lengthy yet incomplete definition of artistic task as proposed […]
2018
978-989-54111-4-6
Português
Specularis, which will be held at the Museu Alberto Sampaio in Guimarães, is an open exhibition aiming to include the several studies and works produced around engraving and glass. It aims at showing the collaboration between different people and their areas of technological interest, based at the Faculdade de Belas Artes of the Universidade do […]
Mário Bismarck, Vítor Silva, Miguel Duarte
2018
1647-8045
Português
Catarina Martins, José Carlos de Paiva, Tiago Assis, Catarina Almeida
2018
2183-3524
English, Portuguese
Derivas is a semestral publication from the Post-Graduation Programs in Arts Education at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto and the Research Group in Arts Education at the i2ADS – Institute of Research in Art, Design and Society. The aim of the journal is to publish original articles, subject to blind peer review, […]
José Carlos de Paiva, Liliana Alves Couto
2018
978-989-54111-2-2
PT, ES
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2018
PT
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Catarina Almeida, Catarina Martins, José Carlos de Paiva, Tiago Assis
2018
Pt, Es
EPRAE is an international meeting that intends to make public and to discuss ongoing doctoral researches students with invited discussants and a community of students and teachers of arts education. Visit website: http://eprae.fba.up.pt 6th Encounter of Practices of Research in Arts Education
Cláudia Amandi, Joaquim Jorge Marques
2018
978-989-54111-0-8
2018
978-989-99839-4-6
English, Spanish
According to Juan Luis Moraza, art is the form of knowledge that avoided less the articulation of the capacities of knowing, of tasting and appreciating. By making use of the conceptual device saboer instead of knowledge, Moraza actualises knowledge as a process intrinsically defined by material and conceptual sensuality. This relation with subjective recursiveness (and its defence) is likely to be the […]
Mário Bismarck, Paulo Luís Almeida, Vítor Silva, José Manuel Barbosa, José Maria Lopes
2017
1647-8045
PT, Eng
PSIAX continues its mission of supporting research on drawing and image, carrying forward the publication of a selection of the most relevant papers presented in Drawing in the University Today – International Meeting on Drawing, Image and Research, held at the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, […]
Catarina Martins, Catarina Almeida, José Carlos de Paiva, Tiago Assis
2017
2183-3524
PT / ENG
Derivas is a semestral publication from the Post-Graduation Programs in Arts Education at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto and the Research Group in Arts Education at the i2ADS – Institute of Research in Art, Design and Society. The aim of the journal is to publish original articles, subject to blind peer review, […]
José Carlos de Paiva, Rita Rainho
2017
978-989-99839-7-7
Português
Partilha de Reflexões sobre as Artes, a Luta, os Saberes e os Sabores da Comunidade Quilombola de Conceição das Crioulas.
2017
978-989-99839-8-4
EN
Creative School Partnerships with Visual Artists, is a project for experimenting pedagogies based on contemporary art practices in primary schools. The project has been co-funded with support from the European Commission (2015-1-PT01-KA201-012989), started in 01/09/2015 and finished 30/11/2017. Crearte aspires to promote creative spaces in education that will fire young students’ active participation, willingness to […]
Francisco Laranjo, Domingos Loureiro, Sofia Torres, Teresa Almeida
2017
978-989-746-143-9
Pt, Es, Eng
Reflexions Beyond Thinking and Practice This book gathers a selection of articles made in context of the International Congress on Contemporary European Painting, held at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, in April 3, 4 and 5, 2017.
Sofia Torres, Domingos Loureiro
2017
978-989-99839-6-0
Pt, Es, Eng
This publication was held in the context of the International Conference #2 Research Journeys of the Nucleus of Art and Design, of the Reserach Institute of Art, Design and Society. It presents the abstracts of more than two dozen communications made by researchers, artists and art teachers, occurred on November 23 and 24, 2017 at […]
Catarina Martins, Miguel Carvalhais, Paulo Luís Almeida, Paulo Bernardino, Cleomar Rocha, Maria de Fátima Lambert, Maria Manuela Lopes, Suzete Venturelli
2017
978-989-99839-3-9
16th International Meeting of Art and Technology #16.ART: Artis intelligentia: IMAGINING THE REAL Proceedings book 2017
Fernando José Pereira, Eugénia Vilela, Jorge Leandro Rosa
2017
2184-0067
Português
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2017
978-989-99839-0-8
Português, English
Anita Seppä’s “Art as an Act of Love with the Radically Other – The Post-Humanist Art of Terike Haapoja” opens up for the statement that there is a transformative power in opening up. Otherness appears at the centre of this thought in terms of the meanings of sharing, giving, and including. Artistic Research Does #3 […]
Sofia Ponte, Domingos Loureiro, Sofia Torres, Francisco Laranjo
2017
978-989-746-124-8
Português
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Francisco Laranjo, Domingos Loureiro, Sofia Torres, Teresa Almeida
2017
978-989-746-136-1
Pt, Es, Eng
Reflexions inside the University This book gathers a selection of articles made in context of the International Congress on Contemporary European Painting, held at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, in April 3, 4 and 5, 2017.
Francisco Laranjo, Domingos Loureiro, Sofia Torres, Teresa Almeida
2017
978-989-746-122-4
PT, ES, EN
ICOCEP, 1sth International Conference on Contemporary European Painting, is organized by Faculdade de Belas Artes (College of Fine Arts) of the University of Porto and I2ADS, Research Institute of Arts, Design and Society. It aims to promote dialogue and discussion, and develop research projects between Professors, Artists, Graduate Students and Researchers from different locations and institutions. This book of abstracts of […]
2017
978-972-36-1548-7 (Edições Afrontamento), 978-989-746-119-4 (i2ADS)
Português
2016
978-989-98745-9-6
Português, English
The publishing of first essay of the series Artistic Research Does brought us to a state of drooling joy. The acute remarks and observations made by Annette Arlander in that essay were instrumental to set our dear project in motion. With the new academic season Artistic Research Does proudly presents a new contribution for the […]
2016
Português, English
Hey presto!, this is not another ant-ology neither aspires being part of one. And we are not tied to defining artistic research neither we intend to spend our and others’ sweat to eventually provide an enlightened state of the art. We are nevertheless quite happy to present a friendly, fancy and laid-back ink and paper […]
2016
978-989-730-050-9
Português
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2015
978-989-730-042-4
English
Texts by Catarina Almeida, Catherine Rosamond, Cristina Mendanha, Eduardo Morais, Joana Mendonça, Leonardo Charréu e Marilda Oliveira, Lígia Lima, Sofia Barreira
Diana Carvalho, Miguel Leal, Dário Cannatà, João Brojo, Felícia Teixeira
2014
978-989-98745-4-1
Português, English
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Catarina Martins, José Carlos de Paiva
2014
978-989-730-041-7
English
Derivas is a semestral publication from the Post-Graduation Programs in Arts Education at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto and the Research Group in Arts Education at the i2ADS – Institute of Research in Art, Design and Society. The aim of the journal is to publish original articles, subject to blind peer review, […]
2014
978-989-97856-6-3
Catarina Martins, José Carlos de Paiva, Catarina Almeida, Tiago Assis
2014
ISSN: 2183-3524
Português, Espanhol
Derivas is a semestral publication from the Post-Graduation Programs in Arts Education at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto and the Research Group in Arts Education at the i2ADS – Institute of Research in Art, Design and Society. The aim of the journal is to publish original articles, subject to blind peer review, […]
Miguel Carvalhais, Pedro Tudela
2014
978-989-98745-0-3
English
This volume concerns music, sound arts and sound in the arts and media. It collects reflections on theory and practice, on composition, performance, technique, virtuosity and aesthetics, as well as on publishing strategies and other issues brought about by computational technologies. It tries to traverse a convoluted map of artistic and design practices that are […]
Cláudia Amandi, Graciela Machado, Pedro Maia
2014
978-989-746-035-7
Português
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José Carlos de Paiva, Rita Rainho
2013
978-989-730-031-8
Português, English, Castellano
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2013
978-989-97856-8-7 (PORTUGAL)
978-84-475-3843-0 (ESPANYA)
Português, Català
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2013
1647-8045
Português, Castellano
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Catarina Martins, Manuela Terrasêca, Vítor Martins
2012
978-989-20-3000-5
Português, English
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2012
978-972-98517-7-3
Português, English, Castellano
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José Carlos de Paiva, Catarina Martins
2011
978-972-9171-76-5
Português, English
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2011
Português, English
A compendium of contemporary public art / space thinking. “In the spirit of an exploratory, transdisciplinary object, you may thus find here essays on the mutating codes of landscaping (Laura Castro), a possible topology of media (Miguel Leal), the shifting status of public art (Jeremy Hunt & Jonathan Vickery), and even a graphic novel on non-gravity […]
Fernando José Pereira, Miguel Leal
2007
1646-7388
Português, English
The title MONO becomes relevant in the context of a publication intending to reflect the contemporariness of visual arts, in particular through its inherent connection with the production process – mono is the volume/prototype made by printers to enable the client to check the final work. And in addition because on embodying the notion of […]