南京大学人文社会科学高级研究院
名家讲坛 第117期
南京大学高研院110周年校庆系列学术活动之六
演讲主题： European Acoustic Environments in Change
欧洲“声音环境”的变化研究
主讲人： 东芬兰大学文化研究教授
Helmi Järviluoma
主持人： 何成洲 教授
时间：2012年5月11日（周一）晚上19:00—21:00
地点：鼓楼校区 逸夫馆9楼高研院报告厅
Abstract:
European Acoustic Environments in Change
Professor of Cultural Studies
Helmi Järviluoma (Mäkelä)
Cultural Studies, University of Eastern Finland
How are the soundscapes of European villages doing? Can you still hear the factory hooters in the Swedish Skruv? What about the echo and children’s voices in the old part and the new residential areas in the Italian Cembra?
In the year 1975 the Canadian World Soundscape Project was committing field research in five European countries, in five villages. The group wanted to focus on sounds of villages in different cultures, to study the quality, levels and rhythms of sounds and their relation to the life of people in each village. In 2000s, Acoustic Environments in Change (AEC) project, directed by Helmi Järviluoma, revisited the five European villages plus a Finnish village. How were the villages doing? What is there to be heard 25 years after the first field research?
These two studies together, perhaps for the first time, allows a longitudinal comparison over 25 years of community soundscapes in transition. The starting point in both studies has been to research acoustically and culturally diverse sonic environments. In the new study methods of anthropology and cultural studies have been deployed to supplement the methodology of soundscape research.
The Finnish scholars have been interested in both the disruption of sonic order, and the listening experiences of the members of the communities who wish to preserve order and equilibrium. How willing are the villagers to open up to the outside world and tourists, their new potential ‘patrons’ ? What about the process of becoming more aware of the noise and silence in their own lived environment? In this paper Helmi Järviluoma especially delves into the dynamics of social memory, nostalgia and soundscape.
