- Title
- Soundings: sensing and encounters in/with/of place
- Creator
- Duffy, Michelle; Campbell, Angela; Chew, Richard
- Relation
- Sounding Places More-Than-Representational Geographies of Sound and Music p. 9-20
- Relation
- https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781788118927/9781788118927.00008.xml
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Drawing on McCormack’s (2013) notion of fieldworking and Hawkin’s (2011) suggestion of ‘doings’, this chapter seeks to capture the unfolding of the performance of an Australian folk song in a sheep shed. This performance was part of a workshop held at an historic pastoral property owned and operated by Sovereign Hill, an open-air museum in Victoria. We wanted to explore the dynamic change in the region’s environments, landscapes and waterways, acknowledging that they are shaped and shared by humans and non-humans alike. We tasked ourselves with a provocation: to work in small groups and respond to the landscape around us using whatever types of approach, materials and practices we chose. Here we explore one of those provocations, listening to a colleague’s haunting rendition of the folk song, ‘Flash Jack from Gundagai’ in a shearing shed. Our exploration of this draws on non-representational theory—or more-than-representational theory—as an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of a lived and living experience through art practice, specifically through music.
- Subject
- Australian folk songs; Sovereign Hill, Vic.; environmental change; art practice
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1431409
- Identifier
- uon:38959
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781788118927
- Language
- eng
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