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The Sound of Identity Interpreting the Multi-dimensionality of Wāhine Māori Through Audio Portraiture

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Date

2020

Authors

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Ings, Welby
McNeill, Hinematau

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Thesis

Degree name

Doctor of Philosophy

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Auckland University of Technology

Abstract

This PhD study interpreted and represented the multidimensionality of wāhine Māori (Māori women) through audio-portraiture. In so doing, it demonstrated how the physically accountable (recollection, opinion, environmental sound and music) might be merged with the esoteric [wairua (spirit) and mauri (life-force)], to create resonant, communicable, sonic depictions of identity. The three portraits in the study disrupted a largely visual concept of portraiture that was imported into Aotearoa/New Zealand during the process of colonisation. The work demonstrated how a sound designer can utilise emerging, 360-immersive and binaural sound-capture technologies in the creation of portraits that communicate unique renegotiations of space and time.

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Sound, Māori, Women, Wahine, Identity, Audio portraiture, Audio, Portraiture, Binaural, Immersive sound

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https://hdl.handle.net/10292/13262

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