Stop for a moment and listen. What can you hear? I expect if you are reading this in a public place there is a cacophony of different sounds and noises. I also expect the majority are produced by people, their activities or the machines that they are using: some quiet, some loud, some pleasant, some offensive, some noises that appear and then disappear. We have a geographical language to describe the visual appearance of landscapes, but can a similar language can be used to describe sounds in the environment?
Sounds are an important tool that can be used to investigate a ‘deeper’ representation of place. This Practical Geography explores some of the ways in which people and places can be investigated through fieldwork based on sound and noise.
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