A Felt Geography^*

* I would like to give special thanks to Ben Wilson and DB Boyko at Vancouver's Western Front. I am also grateful for the comments provided by anonymous reviewers, and for the editorial promptings of Sallie Marston and Sarah de Leeuw.

Abstract

In this article I revisit a literary‐audio work I created in collaboration with a Vancouver composer for Intersections, a new music series organized by the Western Front in Vancouver, Canada. We spliced together recorded interview material with composed music to craft a site‐specific acoustic landscape. This work is presented as a site in which to explore creative, experimental ways of restaging memory and of bringing experiential landscapes more fully to life, immersing public audiences in the felt histories of the city.

• acoustic landscape
• memory
• performance
• Vancouver

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Caleb Johnston

Dr. Johnston is a lecturer in human geography at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, Scotland. [[email protected]].