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Landscapes, soundscapes, mindscapes:

introduction
Eckehard Pistrick and Cyril Isnart
This article aims at providing a state of the art of current interdisciplinary and
comparative research approaches on the intrinsic links between sound and place.
It explores the role of sound in appropriating and humanizing space, turning it into
a place, a site of human intervention and sociocultural practice. The authors direct
as well to the various refigurations of the sound and place correlation in an era of
increased de-territorialization, transregionalization, and hybridization of cultural
practice.
KEYWORDS: sound, space, place, landscape, ethnomusicology, anthropology of the
senses.
Paisagem, paisagem sonora e paisagem mental: introdução    Pretende-se
neste artigo fazer um balanço da investigação comparativa e interdisciplinar atual
acerca das ligações intrínsecas entre som e lugar. É analisado o papel do som na
apropriação e humanização do espaço, que assim se torna lugar, local de interven-
ção humana e prática sociocultural. São também tratadas as várias reconfigurações
da correlação entre som e lugar, numa época de crescente desterritorialização, trans-
regionalização e hibridismo na prática cultural.
PALAVRAS-CHAVE: som, espaço, lugar, paisagem, etnomusicologia, antropologia dos
sentidos.

PISTRICK, Eckehard ([email protected]) – Martin-­Luther-

-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
ISNART, Cyril ([email protected]) – Cidehus, Universidade de Évora, Portugal.
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LANDSCAPES AND SOUNDSCAPES1 SURROUND US IN OUR EVERYDAY

lives even if we do not always recognize their existence. They are two phenom-
ena which appeal to our sensory capacities and which share comparable fea-
tures: they both possess a recognizable form, they are both culturally shaped
and they are symbolic points of reference for humans. They are of immanent
importance to us as we recognize our being in the world through hearing, feel-
ing, smelling and seeing our environment. In this sense our environment is not
divided along the lines of sensory pathways by which we enter it (see Ingold
2007). Sound (as well as vision and smell) and space mutually reinforce one
another in our perception, “the qualities of a space affect how we perceive a
sound and those of a sound affect how we perceive a space” (Ripley 2007a: 2)
or as Steven Feld puts it, “place is sensed, senses are placed; as places make
sense, senses make place” (2005: 179).
Considering space and sound as one entity responds to the phenomeno-
logical turn in anthropology heralded by authors such as Feld (1982), Stoller
(1989), and Howes (1991), and most recently prominently represented in
the works of Tim Ingold (2011; Jankowski and Ingold 2012). This point of
view takes into account that sounds are an essential part of the affective and
aesthetic properties of a place and that they influence profoundly how we
experience places sensually. Moreover, sound can convene a sense of place
as “belonging to us”, combined with a heightened sense of community. This
approach is also backed by recent calls for a geomusicology (Carney 1998; Cler
1999) or a “sonic geography” (Matless 2005). In this sense, it seemed logical
to consider the topic as a field in which social anthropology, geography and
ethnomusicology converge.
This dossier aims at analyzing the intrinsic links between sound and place
in a broad interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. It intends to bring
into the foreground the often hidden interconnection between two phenom-
enological entities which surround us. It shall explore the different ways in
which place is sensually and bodily experienced in different cultural contexts.
It explores the role of sound in appropriating and humanizing space, turning
it into a place, a site of human intervention and sociocultural practice. Space
is understood by us not in its abstract dimension but as the “simultaneous
coexistence of social interrelations at all geographical scales” (Massey 1992:
12). With place we refer, in the non-essentialist reading of Massey, to an inter-
connected place which “is formed out of the particular set of social relations
which interact at a particular location” (1992: 12).

1 Although using it, we recognize the growing concern with the term soundscape. The critics point
particularly to the regular confusion of sound with hearing and the idea that sound is exclusively
considered an object of perception. According to Ingold (2007), sound should be considered neither as
mental nor as material but as a medium of perception, as a phenomenon of experience in which we are
immersed.
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The articles presented here build on previous existing works on the sen-
sory ethnography of place,2 on the role of the auditory sense (Erlmann 2004;
Bandt, Duffy and MacKinnon 2007) and on the tradition of acoustic ecol-
ogy and soundscapes studies introduced by the Canadian composer Murray
­Schafer, anthropologically applied through the works of Steven Feld (1982,
2005). It also takes into consideration a wide range of studies which are seek-
ing to (re)connect musical practice to place and locality (e. g. Leyshon, Matless
and Revill 1998, and Labelle 2010). This emphasis on the local meaning of
sounds, which for Biddle and Knights (2007) coincides with an idealization
of place, can be seen as a reaction in times of increasingly de-territorialized
musical objects.

SOUNDS AND THE MAKING OF PLACE

Space is a historical palimpsest with different layers of time, charged with mul-
tiple meanings, symbols and myths. Space becomes a place through human
experience but also through our memory and imagination. “Place becomes a
center of meaning constructed by experience” (Tuan 1975: 152), a part of a
specific cultural design. This act of place-making changes us as well: we make
places, they make us in turn.
Place is considered here not as a static entity but as a cultural process, as
a continuously defined and redefined point of reference which may be both
real and imaginary. It emerges as experience, as a category only through a
wide range of human activities such as making routes, forming aesthetics and
narrating (Árnason et al. 2012: 1). Place is socially constructed (Halbwachs
1992 [1941]; de Certeau 1984) and perceived by its inhabitants. Its meanings
between past, present and future are continuously (re)imagined, questioned,
and reformulated (see Jankowski and Ingold 2012). Places are unbounded
“meeting places” whose significance is constructed out of interrelations with
elsewhere (Massey 1992).
The acoustic dimensions of place have been acknowledged by geographers
relatively early (Seamon and Mugerauer 1985); nevertheless this sonic dimen-
sion of place was never explored in depth. This has partially changed with the
emotional turn in geographical studies. With recognising the fact that emo-
tions are both constitutive for spatial construction and for the attachment of
meanings to place (e. g. Davidson and Milligan 2004; Davidson, Bondi and
Smith 2005), also the potential of narratives, histories and sounds in mem-
orizing and emotionalizing place was reconsidered. Nevertheless, the role of
sounds has remained still at the margins of this discussion. This is surprising as

2 One of the most recent conferences on this topic was held at the Music Faculty at the University
of Oxford on 18-19 May 2012, under the title “Hearing landscape critically: sense, text, ideology”.
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sounds play a crucial role in charging place with meaning, in stimulating emo-
tional attachment: they are constitutive for the act of place-making. Sounds
mobilize feelings of belonging and nostalgia, they may transmit a (virtual)
idea of home, and they may fill a place with ideas about the past, the present
and the future. They are even capable of creating evocative mindscapes with
reference to physical realities.3
The general framework in which we discuss sonic practices as place-making
here is to consider sounds both as being placed and as existing beyond place:
local sounds with their potential to demarcate and comment on places and
global sounds which exist in multiple places at the same time or beyond the
limits of a physical place. In the postmodern extension of this idea we might
think of sounds as coordinates which allow us to orient in a connected global
world, teaching us “how to belong, to find place, as well as how not to belong,
to drift” (Labelle 2010: xvii).
To know about a place means to know about the particular sonic prop-
erties of this place. Spatial experience therefore incorporates a certain audi-
tory knowledge. This pronounced interconnection between sound and place
implies that sounds take actively part in the social construction of our spatial
and temporal environment. They are part both of the “spatial practices” and
“spatial representations” as evoked by Lefebvre (1974). Martin Stokes (1994)
speaks of the “musical construction of place” and Erlmann (1998) argues even
for the existence of a so-called “practiced place”, defined more by musical prac-
tices and networks of interactions than by its physical traits. In this sense we
argue that sounds must be considered a key element in the distinction between
a topos (place) and space, between the physical space and the socially inhabited
place.4 In fact, spatially- (and temporally-) bound sounds are demarcating and
commenting on our environment. They – beside vision and smell – charge
space with meanings and affectivity. But the spatial environment can also have
a profound impact on the way that we use our visual and auditory senses.
Gell (1995), among others, has argued in the case of the Umeda in Papua
New Guinea for the existence of an intimate relationship between the cultural
factors which shape the phonology of certain natural languages and the partic-
ularities of the landscape in which the speakers live. Feld (2005) has observed
in a similar way among the Kaluli of Bosavi a particular sense of acute hearing
for locational orientation, needed in a rain forest environment in which visual
orientation is limited.

3 A famous example in this respect is the pastoral Ranz des Vaches tune mentioned by Jean-Jacques
Rousseau (1768: 317) which among Swiss soldiers abroad evoked yearning for their “lost” home.
4 A similar distinction has been brought up earlier by de Certeau (1984: 115) who distinguishes
between “spaces” (espaces, place in use by people) and “places” (lieux, structured and material loca-
tions).
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If we speak about the role of sounds as social markers of space we must

speak about silences as well: in which sense does sound relate to sociality and
silence to asocial behaviour? In which sense is sound perceived as a commod-
ity and silence as a menacing factor? Seremetakis (1990) has argued when dis-
cussing the lamenting practice in the Southern Peloponnese that silence plays
the role of an important counterweight to sound in its constitutive function
for gender and power relationships. In her contribution for the present dos-
sier, Francesca Sbardella shows that both silence and sound are fundamental
categories of nuns’ lives in a monastic Catholic context. As the alternation
between silence and ritual speech is the principal rule of collective coexistence
and a condition for keeping the efficacy of the spiritual relation with god,
production of sound is banned both by written, official rules of daily life and
by incorporated habitus. Such explicit and suggested rules determine bodily
behaviour, architecture and interior design. In the case explored, the nuns’
great effort to maintain their sound environment contrasts with the relative
freedom of lay people and groups, and proves that soundscapes are embodied
social productions depending on different collective contexts. Silence in this
example does not mean emptiness nor is it “devoid of sense” – on the con-
trary, silence is meaningful here; it is a highly symbolic resource which may
be understood also in a Foucauldian sense as exemplifying power hierarchies
(Foucault 1975).
But places are not only natural physical environments to be “filled” with
sound. There are also places which are designed exclusively for the purpose
of sound through techniques of acoustic engineering. This is the case with
concert halls, designed for their acoustic properties. Comparable “artificially”
constructed sound laboratories are analyzed in this dossier both through the
lenses of a sound artist and an anthropologist’s. Corsin Vogel produces sonic
installations in which sound is one of the dimensions of the working space.
Investigating the relationship between the sounds performed during work and
the mental images they carry, Vogel tends to provoke individuals’ imagination
of space. Taken as immersive details of human life, the manipulated sounds
contribute to construct a sound space in continuity with the physical space
and the visitors’ own expectations and imagination. The methodological prin-
ciple of this sound artist is that sound is always a condition for the perception
of space: on the one hand he makes the social dimension of the sonic envi-
ronment visible in his work, on the other hand he makes us rethink our own
relation with space as sonically determined. The contribution of Josée Laplace
shows this entanglement between the function and the symbolics of a place on
a very detailed and refined scale, taking the example of Catholic churches in
Montreal to which people attribute particular sensitive qualities. She presents
churches as particularly symbolically-charged places referring to the cultural
background of the Quebeckers (secularization of the society and uncertainty
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of the future of these places). In her interpretation, consistent popular beliefs

about churches as “exclusive spaces” do not correlate with ideas about a par-
ticular sound environment characterized by spirituality, slowness and grav-
ity. Although “architectural discourse is largely silent on the impact of senses
other than the visual” (Ripley 2007b: 98), anthropologists have showed a vital
interest in the interaction between profane and sacred sound spaces and in the
effects this has on the public and symbolic encodings of sound and architec-
ture (Smith 2001; Paermentier 2008).
If we want to “read” spaces through listening to them, if we want to experi-
ence space sonically, we have to focus on the moment of performance. This is
where social interaction, the interconnection between space, sound and mem-
ories becomes evident. Such performances may reveal also the identity-gener-
ating potential of place. Bandt, Duffy and MacKinnon (2007: 1) call the sonic
characteristics through which we may reconstruct places “aural signatures”.
Listening to such “aural signatures” always has its moral and ethical implica-
tions, as the relationship between place and sound can be of a highly ideolog-
ical nature which may lead up to the point in which sound becomes a factor
in the dynamics of racial imagination (Radano and Bohlman 2000). The ways
in which sounds become integrated or dominate over places correspond to
socio-political power-relationships. This becomes evident if we consider, for
example, the purified soundscapes or silences in borderlands, spaces of intense
cultural contestation. But also in urban settings acoustic politics of space have
been increasingly implemented. In such surroundings, “polluting” or “hybrid”
sounds, contesting a fictive homogenous “national soundscape”, are excluded.
At the same time, sounds may play a subversive role in relation to the poli-
tics of sonic purification. Sounds may contest the space in which they occur.
They may contest ideas of an “ethnic homogenous music practice”, ideas of
belonging, or they may contest the borders between tradition and modernity,
between “Us” and the “Other”. Sounds, in this sense, already participate in
making more flexible our notions of locality, authenticity, belonging, identity
and nationality.
They may also play a role as markers commenting on the marginality or
strategic importance of space and place. The notion of “acoustic territories”
(Labelle 2010) in urban surroundings refers to this increasing social stratifica-
tion and hegemonization of sounds, pointing to a topography of auditory life
as seen through the spatial and social structure of the city.

SONIC DYNAMICS OF CONNECTED PLACES

Increased human mobility has led to a situation where sounds also continu-
ously change and interchange their places. Sounds increasingly detach from
their place of production. Moreover, our contemporary world of mobility has
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proven that sound-space relations are and always have been cultural ones.
Sound-space relations have been continuously reconfigured throughout his-
tory as they are socially conditioned.
The essentialist idea of sounds as being “naturally” tied to certain places
and contexts has to be revised, as many sounds have found a new home in new
contexts. This de-spatialization of sounds has become increasingly accelerated
by media. It has resulted in what Slobin (1993) calls “transregional musics”
– sounds with different local references. In a wider sense, sound, particularly
world music, has become part of a global flow: “… world music looks like a
fluid, interlocking set of style, repertoires, and practices that can expand or
contract across wide or narrow stretches of the landscape. It no longer appears
to be a catalogue of bounded entities of single, solid historical and geographi-
cal origins…” (Slobin 1993: 20).
This transregional aspect of contemporary musical practice can be exem-
plified by the success of the Mystères des voix bulgares or of the Corsican multi-
part group I Muvrini. In both cases, locally codified sounds became accessible
and appreciated by a wider transregional audience through effective marketing
strategies, which aimed at the “local branding” of sounds. Such phenomena
must be considered in the context of a wider set of cultural politics and heri-
tage politics, which provide regional and local goods with an aura of purity and
authenticity. This often goes hand in hand with politically relevant processes
of homogenisation and purification of entire musical landscapes.5
Sounds in the contemporary globalized world have not only switched
between different local references, they have even opened up new dimensions
beyond the physical reality: they have assumed an essential role in the imag-
ination of places (Jankowski and Ingold 2012), and in the creation of vision-
scapes and mindscapes. This becomes particularly evident if we consider the
crucial role sounds play as identifiers of belonging and homeliness in processes
of de-territorialization, uprooting and displacement. As Levi and Scheding
(2010) have convincingly shown, music plays a role before, during and after
the event of displacement, acting as a reference for the longing for home,
functioning as a retrospective “memorial soundscape”. Indeed, in an increas-
ingly mobile contemporary world sounds also are continuously on the move.
In its sonic form, places, homes and origins travel with the people in their
hand luggage, transcending movement. The sonic memory of an imagined and
often fictive home remains present in its medialized form, even in the remotest
corner of the Diaspora. De-territorialization forms the fertile ground for musi-
cal creativity and for a growing diasporic music industry, which strategically
uses spatial and social nostalgia encoded in sound. They make a commercial

5 See similar comments in Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (1995: 373-375) about the homogenisation of

heritage.
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use of the fact that music evokes a distant home for the migrant more effec-
tively than everything else (e. g. Pistrick 2009; Isnart 2013).
This includes the possibility that sounds may refer also to a virtual, imag-
ined space. One characteristic example are the so-called “Balkan Beats” which
refer to a fictive (geographically imprecise), apolitical territory where excessive
emotionality and musical virtuosity meet.
As Stoichi (2010) has argued, amplification has played another import-
ant role in opening new grounds for sonic experience beyond the established
relation of sound and space. Unamplified sounds before were attributable to
a certain physical and social space: they were intended to fill a certain space
outside (like the wedding music of the Albanian-Macedonian zurna-daulle
Ensemble) or the interior of a domestic space (like in the case of Bulgarian
sedjanka songs). The amplified sounds of contemporary popular music prac-
tice go beyond this dichotomised relation of inside and outside spaces, and
they extend far beyond the physical space. Electronic effects and amplification
have lead to a disconnection between a physical but inaudible space and an
invisible but sonically omnipresent space. The overall experience of such a
sonic event is one of an amplified delocalized fugitive but omnipresent sound,
exemplifying sonic power (Stoichi 2010: 9). In his article, Stoichi deals
with amplification practices in depth, presenting the very technical aspect of
the sonic production of reverb in Romanian performances of manele. He links
the musicians’ and listeners’ representations of such sounds to the frameworks
of Foucault and Gell. Arguing that manele performances using reverb lead to
the epiphany of a temporary heterotopia characterised by a sonic, musical
and poetic exotism, or “enchanted place”, Stoichi shows the entanglements
between the place of the performance and the place evoked by the perfor-
mance. As many other artistic practices dealing with space and using a kind of
splitting effect, the result is a superposition of the real place of performance
and a virtual place.
The interaction between sound and place today is mediated in complex
and often conflicting ways. Although the processes of a de-territorialization,
transregionalization, and hybridization of sounds are found all over the con-
temporary world, at the same time tendencies to “spatialize” and “localize”
sounds co-exist. They must be understood in a wider context of re-tradition-
alization and of heritage politics: in the logic of cultural policy makers, to
“place” sounds means to provide them with an “authentic aura”. The spatial
settings, which could provide such an imagined “authenticity” for sounds, are
rural folkloric festivals, historical monuments or revitalized religious feasts.
The resulting dynamics of political ideologies, the interests of supra-national
actors (such as UNESCO), or local movements of re-traditionalization act as
agencies of power, knowledge and desire. They have reformulated the relation
between sound and place profoundly.
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Nevertheless, even today there are musics which are primarily locally
meaningful, created with local knowledges and sensibilities, telling particular
narratives about the local, created for local audiences (Bennett, Whiteley and
Hawkins 2005). The nation as a spatial point of reference for sonic practice
is recently being reconsidered as a mediator between the larger global and the
smaller local (Biddle and Knights 2007). Such musics play an important role
in the way people define their relationships with local, everyday surroundings,
at different scales, even in a globalized world. Local musics are understood
by different cultural groups as being anchored in their sense of community,
belonging, referring to a commonly shared past. In this dossier, Katell Morand
gives us such an example in her sensitive and intimate ethnomusicological
case study about an Ethiopian group of herdkeepers. Music playing, as it is
the case in many pastoral cultures, can be seen as a specific and respected
capacity of the herders, relating themselves to the herd during long periods
of loneliness while on the pastures. In the author’s view, the herders became,
while working, not only masters in their own local musical practice, but also
masters of the sonic images of their lands, and masters over the shared memo-
ries of collective village life. They build their spatial knowledge essentially on
sonic perceptions of their environment, dealing with loneliness, wild animals
and brigands in the liminal parts of the forest. But they also populate, occupy
their environment with their own musical creations. Morand argues that the
relation herdkeepers establish with their surrounding environment is essen-
tially a sonic one. The herdkeepers live between two distinctly codified spatial
entities: the cultivated social place of the village and the “asocial” wilderness.
They try to exert control over this in-between space through sonic techniques
which make them both connoisseurs and performers of highly localised and
distinct soundscapes.
Considering the case study of Morand in this volume in relation to other
contributions, such as those of Sbardella and Stoichi , we are challenged by
a variety of questions: is the creation of soundscapes a conscious performa-
tive act which is largely conditioned by a particular socio-economic situation
or is it a pre-conditioned cultural pattern, intrinsically linked to what we
might call a cultural background, or a habitus? In which sense do soundscapes
relate to the notion of the “local” or the “glocal”? What factors determine the
(re)recognisability of soundscapes?
The contemporary relation of sound and space is a flexible and continu-
ously changing one as is its future. As Labelle (2010) has pointed out, the tem-
poral and evanescent nature of sounds imparts great flexibility and uncertainty
to the stability of space (Labelle 2010: xxi). Whether the local meanings of
sounds will regain their importance or whether the processes of de-territori-
alization and hybridization will lead to the disappearance of the local signifi-
cance of sounds and see the creation of new spatial references is still uncertain.
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