Psychogeography

So as it turns out, while researching the sound and silence ideas and looking into how I can work with this idea, I would like to take it in the direction of Psychogeography.

PsychoGeography: “the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.”
Guy Debord  Link to source.

I have always been interested in how we use and inhabit the environments we are in, share them with others and view them from our own perspectives so this may be a very interesting project and, of course I have NO idea where it will lead.

One thing I do know is that I want to look at the spaces we inhabit in terms of sound, what is naturally there, what we consciously or subconsciously put there and what we can put there, this sort of idea is interesting in that there can be a visual as well as auditory response to the space, I would like to look into this.

Dec 17th

I have been reading and looking for ways to figure out how to approach this so that I don't leave out the initial concept of sound and allow  it to move on to something else so I concluded that embarking on a series of soundwalks would be the best way forward. I will record these in a  field notes.

a field notes page I made up for the book

and record and create sounds depending on the situation, I'd like to archive the sounds and have them easily accessible so I am going to try and find a way to create a mobile ( app maybe) way to let people access this. The idea is to create a bound book with all the journal pages, this will be not just the sound ones but a more general explorers journal as well.

field notes page

I will try to record everything, keep an archive of found objects, photos and observations and culminate this with the book, the objects and a map design that I am yet to work out. It will be very interesting to see how  all this information comes together. Essentially, this is the type of thing I am looking at.