Place, Sound, History, Now: Listening to the “Little Cities of Black Diamonds”
Archival and contemporary sounds of a place connect the listener to the people and history of an area. This sonic ethnography may then become material for creative projects in unique ways and push...
View ArticleListening to Labor in the “Little Cities of Black Diamonds”
For miners, sound often answers questions about work and safety. For composers, recording and carefully listening to the sounds of a region can suggest ways of bridging between place and creative sound...
View ArticleListening to Social Life in the “Little Cities of Black Diamonds”
New and archival recordings offer a glimpse of social life in the Little Cities--sonic insights that open up an archive of ideas for a careful listener willing to jump on a carnival ride or blow the...
View ArticleListening to Protest and Resistance in the “Little Cities of Black Diamonds”
Certain sounds of resistance—shouting, speeches, chanting, and singing—simultaneously bring together and diffuse, and meaningfully hold in suspension situations that could easily descend into chaos and...
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