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SASAH 2022 YEARBOOK

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Professor Helen Fielding
ARTHUM 1020E

For these assignments SASAH's newest cohort submitted a two-page paper accompanied by a short soundscape recording. Rather than a formal essay, these submissions are geared towards a larger, final paper. Students begin to engage with the course themes through the act of listening through their field recordings. They are asked to pay attention to their listening, to meditate on that attention and then to attempt to make some sense of or to take some meaning from this attentive listening. Click on each textbox to be transported to the full piece, along with the soundscape it reflects on.

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On Soundscapes

"If you do not tune into your environment for just a second, you could miss a whole universe of species interacting with one another. I suppose that there is a beauty in our chaotic clash of sounds."

Ash Ecclestone

"Though I had aimed to be silent to allow the elements space in the soundscape, I still had interacted with them, nonetheless."

Asha Saha

"The notion of sensory perception being crucial to coexistence connects to necessity for a type of urban planning that focuses on the community and through better public transportation as well as less hostile architecture."

Grace Dilawri

"Cultural individualism says to anyways put yourself first, looking within and discovering “you”. But who am I without the people and things around me?"

Kate Armstrong

"I am subjugated, but also subject. I cannot help but wonder if my own place on this land is in itself hypocrisy, from dispossession to dispossessing." 

Kathleena Henricus

"Connection makes you feel light and heavy, fast and slow. It is there yet it is not. " 

Katya O'Donnell

"I then noticed that the wind had shifted; instead of blowing directly on me I heard it blowing above me through the crowns of the trees, and I was able to record some creaking of the tree limbs."

Lauren Knafelc

"As much as representing the trauma and abuse is important, there are not enough performances, fiction or media representing Indigenous people as more than holders of trauma and abuse. Where is the fiction where they are happy, where they are able to be comfortable in their identities?"

Madyson Cooper

"I was not here to make nature a pretty recording but instead be with it, if only for an hour or two."

Ana Milojevic

"Our colonial mindset causes the neglect of water’s importance; thus, we take water for granted, and we seldom realize where the water originates."

Promise Chen

"My subjectivity was shaped in the midst of a world of fruits, vegetables, fava beans, Masjids and, most importantly, other subjectivities, with whom I now share a lifeworld." 

Parsa Albeheshti

1. Past and Present

2. Turning Point

3. Ideal Future

"I captured moments of distant conversation, music, and human activity. When listening back to the unedited recordings, I could hear my breath. I wanted to edit it out but caught myself wondering why I needed to rid my project of an indication of my presence. Was I, once again, trying to crawl back into the familiar confinements of my skin?"

Jules Lee

"I wanted to portray this soundscape as a more kinetic experience, like a journey, so I focused on the role and presence of the narrator rather than trying to ignore them."

Merdeka Miles