Tuning-in

Abstract

This article describes the idea and method of ‘tuning-in’ as a component of environmental arts practice, developed during my participation in the Landscape Quartet research project. It describes how such an approach includes awareness of the different senses and kinds of awareness, and how artistic responses to specific spaces and locations can be developed through sound and music. This includes outcomes that range in scope from live performances and/or sound installations on-site, electroacoustic compositions, and audiovisual pieces.

Keywords:

• Environmental Sound Art
• Flute
• Improvisation
• Bansuri

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes

[1] Literally, ‘chicken god’, see https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/H%C3%BChnergott. In some regions of Britain, similar stones are called adder stones.

Additional information

Funding

The artistic research this paper is based on was carried out as part of the project Landscape Quartet: Creative Practice and Philosophical Reflexion in Natural Environments, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council RC id: AH/J004995/1.