Vibrating Matter: situating sound

Shearer, Rachel Mary

Vibrating Matter: situating sound

aut.embargo	No	en_NZ
aut.supplementaryupload	Yes
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dc.contributor.advisor	Gallagher, Sue
dc.contributor.advisor	Douglas, Andrew
dc.contributor.author	Shearer, Rachel Mary
dc.date.accessioned	2012-05-15T02:52:03Z
dc.date.available	2012-05-15T02:52:03Z
dc.date.copyright	2011
dc.date.created	2011
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.date.updated	2012-05-14T22:58:26Z
dc.description.abstract	My research investigates site-specific sound installation practice by way of two public urban sound projects, created for the Auckland City Council in Tamaki Makarau / Auckland. Contrary to the typically dominant visual aspects of public art, in these works I explore the capacity of the acoustic domain to territorialise and engender space. The works undertaken in this research explore the use of the chant particularly as a key structuring device in the development of acoustic space. I look to find voices and tell stories with sounds shaped in response to the existing soundscape, that resonate with genealogies centred in site and place. These “voice”/ place relations suggest, beyond the usual linear emphasis of genealogy, the value of resonance, echo, and sounding in such relations. Through disruption opening up the possibility of a “becoming”, the installations seek to deterritorialise, reverberating out into the wider world and through time. Generally, I have framed these explorations within what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari refer to as a “geophilosophy” as a way of recognizing the complex territorial constituents of thought itself. Whakapapa is engaged with here to deepen and nuance, an understanding of geophilosophy, one that aims to better understand the complex forces binding cultures to place.	en_NZ
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10292/4167
dc.language.iso	en	en_NZ
dc.publisher	Auckland University of Technology
dc.rights.accessrights	OpenAccess
dc.subject	Site-specific	en_NZ
dc.subject	Sound installation	en_NZ
dc.subject	Whakapapa	en_NZ
dc.subject	Geophilosophy	en_NZ
dc.subject	Public art	en_NZ
dc.subject	Sound art	en_NZ
dc.title	Vibrating Matter: situating sound	en_NZ
dc.type	Thesis
thesis.degree.discipline
thesis.degree.grantor	Auckland University of Technology
thesis.degree.level	Masters Theses
thesis.degree.name	Master of Art and Design	en_NZ