On the one hand, our sound experience conditions our perception. But this dynamic nature is not exclusive to sounds “The way in which we perceive and interpret these sounds is equally dynamic. Thus, the sound identity is, by nature, dynamic.
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“Each of these environments determines a series of sounds, moments, situations or spaces that, insofar as they are typical of a city, give it a certain identity.” To this must be added that the sounds are changing according to the cycles, whether of the day, of the week and / or of the season of the year, in turn they are transformed throughout history. The sounds of a city are linked to its urbanism, its architecture, its politics, its economy, its technology, population density, etc., and induce the production of different sound environments: the school, the market, the square, the park, the neighborhood, among many others. We can say that sound environments are social productions. One of them is to help determine the identity of an object, place, context, constituting what we call sound identity.” The soundscape allows us to perceive, describe and interpret the sound environment,” the sound identity can be defined as the set of characteristic sounds of a place, a neighborhood or even a city, that allow those who inhabit it, recognize it, name it, but also identify with that place, feel part of it,” that is, it is the whole of sounds that allow recognizing and identifying a place, differentiating it from others it is about the ordinary sounds of daily life with which the inhabitant interacts. “Sound can fulfill informative, aesthetic and emotional functions.
“Changes in social relationships involve changes in the sound environment.”
I believe that the general acoustic environment of a society can be understood as an indicator of social relations, of which it is a consequence, and that through it we can know some things about the development direction of that society. The sound environment (or soundscape), is the sum of the totality of sounds within a defined area,” where all sounds have an interaction whether intentional or accidental with a specific logic in their interior and with referents of the social environment where it is produced, thus being an indicator of the conditions that generate it and of the trends and evolution of a society. “The sound landscape is the acoustic manifestation of a place.
However, the main objective of the project is to open up the possibility of understanding our surroundings by listening to the sound environment and thereby helping to contribute to generating a better knowledge of the different places that surround us. The Sound Map of Queretaro project seeks to identify and record the soundscape of the city of Queretaro and its conurbated areas of the municipalities of Corregidora and El Marques, seeking to document the sounds produced by the multiple social interactions that occur in diverse places and moments, through surveys, sound records and the construction of a sound map, in order to show a reflection of the sound identity of each place, and as a whole of the sound identity of the city. “Man, sound and medium constitute a communication system.” Link of the project: Mapa Sonoro de Querétaro
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