Socially Engaged Sonic Arts (Portfolio)
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 168220527
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-component portfolio
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The portfolio brings together four participatory sonic arts projects led by Rebelo (2014 to 2018) and a book chapter (Rebelo, Velloso, 2017). The projects share methodological approaches on socially engaged arts with specific focus on the aural experience and sonic expression as described in the book chapter. Through practice-based research and creative practice, the portfolio investigates ways in which sound can articulate lived experience, memory and sense of place. The projects engage with local disadvantaged communities (Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique), victims of conflict, forced migration, social exclusion and poverty. Whereas visual media is often too quick to portray a stereotypical depiction of these communities, the sonic presents us with alternative forms of access and expression.
The work draws on sound studies and socially engaged arts literature to interrogate notions such as: sense of self through sound (the sounds of one’s life), sense of place (the sounds of one’s home, neighbourhood) and sense of community (the sounds of one’s tribe, how they are appropriated, shared and weave social fabrics). The gathering of materials (through interviews, focus groups, soundwalks, sound diaries, field recordings) reveals, in collaboration with the participants, thematic trends which articulate these notions of self, place and community and how they are marked by conflict or social inequality. It is these thematic trends that reveal research insights, often untold stories, forming the basis of the creative practice aiming to develop these materials into artworks (sound installation, film, photography, immersive video). The artworks become the vehicle for broadening a conversation about each community’s reality while celebrating and disseminating their stories through sound. All projects involve collaboration and were initiated and led by Rebelo.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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