{"id":282,"date":"2019-07-15T10:43:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T22:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/inplural\/?p=282"},"modified":"2019-07-15T12:06:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T00:06:29","slug":"women-and-fear-an-ethnographic-soundscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/inplural\/women-and-fear-an-ethnographic-soundscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Walking Alone: An ethnographic soundscape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A soundscape produced by Laura Gunther<\/strong>, for ANTH210 (Translating Culture)<\/a><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/inplural\/files\/2019\/07\/ANTH210-SOUNDSCAPE-FINALE-CUT-150719-10.33-AM.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n

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About the soundscape:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The soundscape I produced for ANTH210 responded to my research question: \u2018What are some of the challenging experiences of being (cisgender) female in Dunedin?\u2019<\/p>\n

This is a topic that felt most relevant to me and what was\/is applicable to Dunedin culture. In order to encompass this in an audio format, I explored both my personal experiences as a woman, along with those experienced by others through a collection of audio recordings, woven together to produce the sound of a woman walking alone at night.<\/p>\n

About the ANTH210 process:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The process of recording the soundscape audio came with its challenges; sound interruption was one of them. Many of my audio clips had to be re-recorded in order to achieve what I wanted out of my ethnographic research. Furthermore, finding relevant audio recordings came as a struggle. It came as quite a challenge to decide upon sounds produced within Dunedin that would provide me with the environment I had pictured within my mind. While this was eventually resolved, I also feared that my lack of technological experience would interfere with the quality of my soundscape, and I continued to believe this up until its submission. But thankfully, I recall that technological experience is not what defines the quality of a soundscape – rather it is its content and how it all comes together that matters.<\/p>\n

My chosen format for the soundscape was intended to immerse the listener into the mind of a fearful woman – as many feel – when travelling alone at night. While this is not felt by all women, I wanted to produce a soundscape that was a harsh reality. Through these chosen sounds, a woman\u2019s experiences, along with fears, is captured – producing an insight as to what a woman may experience – even in a student environment such as Dunedin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A soundscape produced by Laura Gunther, for ANTH210 (Translating Culture)   About the soundscape:\u00a0 The soundscape I produced for ANTH210 responded to my research question: \u2018What are some of the challenging experiences of being (cisgender) female in Dunedin?\u2019 This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32972,"featured_media":284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70945,63010,70894],"tags":[53401,74411,53402,44768,42545,234,44563,417,6835,70855,74419,70951,74414,6837,12270],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anth210-translating-culture-undergrad-coursework","category-case-study","category-undergrad-coursework","tag-anthropology","tag-ethnographic","tag-ethnography","tag-fear","tag-female","tag-feminism","tag-feminist","tag-gender","tag-safety","tag-social-anthropology","tag-sound","tag-soundscape","tag-urban","tag-walking","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/inplural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/inplural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/inplural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/inplural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/inplural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/inplural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/inplural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/inplural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/inplural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/inplural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}