Review of contemporary sound installation practices in Québec
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Resonance : the journal of sound and culture ; vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 177-193.Publisher(s)
University of California PressAuthor(s)
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Continuing a trend of publications investigating sound art within a specific geographical
context, this paper proposes an original view of the sound installation practice in Que´bec. This study is
part of a research project aiming at building new theoretical and practical tools for the documentation of
such artworks. In this paper we present the outcomes of the first phase and its connection with the bigger
picture of the project, which is the questioning of the relevance of spatial audio recordings with six degrees
of freedom (6DoF) for mediating the capture of knowledge relating to the sensory experience of a work.
During the first phase, we developed a conceptual descriptive framework based on a mixed-methods
approach, top-down and bottom-up, consisting in a systematic review of literature paralleled with
a categorization of contemporary sound art production in Que´bec based on publicly available
documentation. This process led to a formal and quantitative depiction of the Que´bec scene, which
aims to guide both the selection of case studies for the next phases but also to be part of the
conceptual tools for investigating the sensory experience of these works. This quantitative depiction of
the scene will thus foster a qualitative investigation of the sensory experience of sound art installations and
the knowledge that may be lost in standard written documentation practice with an original methodological
framework.
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