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Drafts by Theo Lezzeri

This project seeks to illuminate themes of nostalgia, place, lost landscapes, and sound worlds th... more This project seeks to illuminate themes of nostalgia, place, lost landscapes, and sound worlds through music and accompanying prose. Using acoustic ecology as a framing theory, and drawing on themes on landscape in psychogeography, soundscape practice, this project engages in practice as research to generate new knowledge at the intersections of these fields. Themes are explored through the artistic practices of music, accompanying journals, prose, and reflection. This project explores nostalgia, reverie, and landscape through the artistic practices of music, journals and reflection the different, yet related, theories of psychogeography, acoustic ecology and soundscape practice with the aim of generating new ideas on how they intersect and interweave. This interdisciplinary approach found that there were similarities between the outputs of these practices, and that acousmatic practice elicited a greater sense of space and nostalgia than more conventional compositional practice. Other compositional techniques, including electronic ambient music techniques identified in the findings section also allowed a deeper exploration of the themes than more traditional, instrumental compositional practice.

This research explores the sonic relationships between humans and geography, particularly the urb... more This research explores the sonic relationships between humans and geography, particularly the urban vs the natural experience. By examining the literature on noise, soundscape, urban living, and conceptions of music, this research aims to illuminate questions, including what is noise, how people relate to their sonic environment, how the natural coexists with the urban in cities, and where do the multifaceted soundscapes we inhabit end and music begin? Using practice-led research as a framework, this project explores this line of inquiry through soundscape composition and complimentary writing. The research concludes that composed music often imitates nature, even when using man made sound. The question of what can be considered noise is also raised. Noise is often used to dismiss undesirable sound, but this is not an objective measure of sound, as what is called noise can be used to create musical works that are aesthetically enjoyed and appreciated by many listeners. In conclusion, the researcher is in favour of being more accepting of whichever soundscape is the one they find themselves in. Additionally, the binary separation between the soundscape and music composed by humans is more of a spectrum, and that more research is needed to uncover why they may be more alike than not.

This project seeks to illuminate themes of nostalgia, place, lost landscapes, and sound worlds th... more This project seeks to illuminate themes of nostalgia, place, lost landscapes, and sound worlds through music and accompanying prose. Using acoustic ecology as a framing theory, and drawing on themes on landscape in psychogeography, soundscape practice, this project engages in practice as research to generate new knowledge at the intersections of these fields. Themes are explored through the artistic practices of music, accompanying journals, prose, and reflection. This project explores nostalgia, reverie, and landscape through the artistic practices of music, journals and reflection the different, yet related, theories of psychogeography, acoustic ecology and soundscape practice with the aim of generating new ideas on how they intersect and interweave. This interdisciplinary approach found that there were similarities between the outputs of these practices, and that acousmatic practice elicited a greater sense of space and nostalgia than more conventional compositional practice. Other compositional techniques, including electronic ambient music techniques identified in the findings section also allowed a deeper exploration of the themes than more traditional, instrumental compositional practice.

This research explores the sonic relationships between humans and geography, particularly the urb... more This research explores the sonic relationships between humans and geography, particularly the urban vs the natural experience. By examining the literature on noise, soundscape, urban living, and conceptions of music, this research aims to illuminate questions, including what is noise, how people relate to their sonic environment, how the natural coexists with the urban in cities, and where do the multifaceted soundscapes we inhabit end and music begin? Using practice-led research as a framework, this project explores this line of inquiry through soundscape composition and complimentary writing. The research concludes that composed music often imitates nature, even when using man made sound. The question of what can be considered noise is also raised. Noise is often used to dismiss undesirable sound, but this is not an objective measure of sound, as what is called noise can be used to create musical works that are aesthetically enjoyed and appreciated by many listeners. In conclusion, the researcher is in favour of being more accepting of whichever soundscape is the one they find themselves in. Additionally, the binary separation between the soundscape and music composed by humans is more of a spectrum, and that more research is needed to uncover why they may be more alike than not.