Sound Narrative: Second Activity
We are going to create a collaborative izi.TRAVEL tour together that explores your personal relationship with Indonesia through objects, places and sounds. Each one of you can create a tour stop of this collective tour, or a tour on their own. Check the examples in this page to reflect on how the different elements of the narration (text, sound and visual) can be combined. Have fun!
Borobudur temple Park, Indonesia: Perforated Stupas.
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https://congruenceengine.yarncommunity.org/storage/Indonesia_temple_1679566728.jpg
Think about the narration that you want to develop. Are you going to describe a place or a object? Are you going to tell a story from the point of view of the place/object? Are you going to create a poem? The format of the narration can change the perception of the place/object and communicate a different message. Also, think about what language(s) you would use and how. Languages are much more than words. They are the windows to our emotions and biographical experiences that are rooted in the places we inhabit. Get inspired by the examples below!
Chicharron chronicles is a tour that explores the connection between language and identity; the title is bilingual.
https://izi.travel/it/0584-the-chicharron-chronicles-historic-filipinotown-central/en#65131616-6f6b-4923-ac12-a2aaa8b081e5
Silent Voices is a sound exhibition aimed to challenge common ideas of asylums, where sounds are used to evoke feelings and memories.
https://izi.travel/en/8e9f-silent-voices/en#af39-introduction/en
Think about the relationship between the text narration and the audio recording. In city / museum tours, they are usually connected and sound is used to read the text. But there could be other ways to use them. Check these examples below.
Sonic Territories: a mobile walking tour created by a sound artist.
https://izi.travel/it/ca42-sonic-territories-kandos/en#tour_details_first
A sound walk with classical music composed to accompany walkers as they stroll along various nature trails.
https://izi.travel/it/dab8-esyo-soundwalk/en#tour_details_first
A project by a multimedia artist offering musical response to an exhibition of paintings.
https://izi.travel/it/356f-gallery-of-fine-arts-nmz-soundscapes/en
David New's portrait of Murray Schafer in a film produced in 2009.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/listen/
"A soundscape is any collection of sounds, almost like a painting is a collection of visual attractions," says composer R. Murray Schafer. "In a way, the world is a huge musical composition that's going on all the time, without a beginning and presumably without an ending"
An Indonesian soundscape on SoundCloud. You can discover more sounds from Indonesia on the platform and add your own for the story.
https://soundcloud.com/delaneyh/indonesia-soundscape
Wikimedia Commons have an entire section dedicated to sounds. Search for inspiration!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Audio_files
With over 6.5 million items of speech, music and wildlife,the British Library Sound Archive is one of the largest collections of sound recordings in the world.
https://sounds.bl.uk
Vallesina paesaggio (im)mobile is an audio tour where images are drawn maps of a territory
https://izi.travel/it/1d27-vallesina-paesaggio-im-mobile/it#tour_details_first
What images or videos are you going to use to make your narration come alive? As the sounds, they can be descriptive (a photograph of the place/object you are narrating) or suggestive and evocative (a drawing, a vodeo performance or any other visual expression). See the examples below.
Era Belluno is a historical tour where images are photographs of drama performances and of places
https://izi.travel/it/97b5-era-belluno/en
A tour for children where images are both animations of the narrator "the cat Rossini" and photographs of the museum objects
https://izi.travel/it/0617-un-gatto-fuoriposto-il-curioso-rossini/it