The Laboratory of Narrative Research (LNR) is a teaching and research unit that is part of the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It has been designed to bring together scholars and researchers from across the humanities, the social sciences and other scientific fields who have a special interest in the workings and the politics of narrative production.
Lab Director: Dr Effie Yiannopoulou
Eva Kubbos “Earth in Spring” 1968
Dr. Andromachi Vrakatseli
29 November 2022
Participants of this workshop will investigate how soundscapes shape oral history and what are the auditory qualities of the latter. Oral history is researched as a sonic event, a matrix that is related to acoustic perception, temporal and spatial coordinates, social and cultural values. Emphasis will be placed on the acoustic aspects of a walking interview. The sonic methodology draws mainly on Augoyard and Torgue’s notion of sonic effects that describe the sonic environment as a sum of actions and interactions. Steven Feld’s acoustemology is also considered. Feld focuses on listening to other’s listening that is mediated by storytelling. How the sonic effects resonate into oral history, how acoustic perception is embedded into oral history, how acoustic memory generates narrative and it is activated through visual stimuli and current acoustic experiences are questions that the workshop focuses.
When: Tuesday 29 November 2022
What time: 17:00-19:30
Language: Greek
This is an online event (Zoom link TBA)
Registration is now closed. Thank you very much for your interest.
Participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance!
Bio
Andromachi Vrakatseli teaches sound art and sound design in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Western Macedonia, Greece. She holds a PhD (University of the Aegean) in sound art and exhibition space. Her PhD is the first one in Greece in the field of sound studies. During her postgraduate studies in Music Technology (University of York) she specialized in interactive art technologies. Her scientific research and sound artworks have been presented in many international conferences that deal with sound (The Global Composition 2018, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, etc.) and cultural exhibitions. She has published in conference proceedings and journals (Leonardo Electronic Almanac MIT Press, -work accepted). She is a sound artist and she has collaborated with Museums in educational programs about sound and digital media.
Soundscapes and Oral History
