Madrid Soundscape Map: listening and identity_ MADLIST

ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on a research work in progress, Soundscape Map of Madrid: Identity and Listening, an interactive and accessible online map-based system. This research aims to build an informal digital space of situations, actions, experiences, listening, and physical data capable of highlighting the importance of sound in everyday life in the city center of Madrid. This multi-layered map is a place for local people, artists, researchers, urban planners, and municipalities to work together, as well as to provide collective knowledge about sound in the environment we live in and to enhance collaborative design for sustainable and creative environments. The research aims to explore the identity of places based on listening as generous listening: listening to our body, the collective body, and the sound environment in an open process of exploration/experimentation with a hybrid methodology and several tools: informal meeting with citizen, interviews, storytelling, soundwalk, digital map, recording data collections.

KEYWORDS:

• Soundscape
• listening
• placemaking
• map
• participation

Acknowledgement

This research has been supported by the Dirección General de Patrimonio Cultural, Ayuntamiento de Madrid. We would like to express our gratitude to María Elvira Chover Alvarez Monteserin, María Paloma Ramos Riesco, and José Luis Esteban Vasallo for their valuable support in the project: Madrid Soundscape: Identity and Listening. Thanks to all the people who kindly participated in all the project phases. Thanks to the COST Action 18204: Dynamics of placemaking and digitization in Europe’s cities for the support.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Zoom H4 and H6 omnidirectional stereo portable digital recorders.

– SoundMan Omnidirectional OKM II Classic/Studio A3 stereo ambient microphones for Soundwalks

– Sennheiser AMBEO binaural microphones smart casque

– Sound level meter

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Funding

This research has been funded by the Madrid City Council.