A great, diverse group came to the first session. There was a mix of undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, staff and community members. A great range of cultural backgrounds and ages and ability levels. We learnt about the website (a few days old at this point!) and then Professor Ellen Waterman took us for a workshop. It was fascinating to hear more about the work of soundscape pioneers such as R.M. Schafer and Hildegard Westercamp, including ideas of “soundmarks” (like landmarks, sounds which identify a place), keynote sounds (dominant sounds in a landscape) and being a “sound hound” by searching out sounds we might not register in everyday life. I loved the section on focussing my listening inside my body, in the near and far locations and starting to register what an amazing sound environment I live in everyday.
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ICASP is a Major Collaborative Research Initiative, based at the University of Guelph, sponsored by the SSHRC
