Pedagogy of Sounding: Tuning in Art Education
Open Access
- Author:
- Altuntas Nott, Ilayda
- Graduate Program:
- Art Education
- Degree:
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Document Type:
- Dissertation
- Date of Defense:
- August 12, 2021
- Committee Members:
- Kimberly Powell, Co-Chair, Dissertation Advisor and Minor Member
Karen Keifer-Boyd, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yasmine Abbas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Eduardo Navas, Major Field Member
Karen Keifer-Boyd, Program Head/Chair - Keywords:
- sounding art curriculum
sound data visualization
listening
awareness
memory
sound as ways of knowing
online curriculum
soundscape albums
the orange table effect
sounding art practice as research
SAPAR
tuning in
art education
arts-based research - Abstract:
- In this practice-related study of Sounding Art Practice as Research (SAPAR), I conducted research on the creation, implementation, and study of a sounding art curriculum and how my pedagogy facilitated students’ understandings of sound as ways of knowing. The virtual afterschool curriculum I designed and taught consisted of 10 weekly two-hour sounding art classes in which 14 high school students practiced the following sounding art methods: listening, recording, and producing. My sounding art curriculum is theoretically grounded in Murray Schafer’s tuning in and his exploration of the relationship between humans and the sounds of their environments; and Stephen Feld’s acoustemology of place, who studied the culture of places and analyzed the notion of sonic knowledge in consideration of places. My data consisted of sound visualizations, sound journals, conversations, fieldnotes, and high school student interviews. Findings from my analysis of students’ soundscape albums revealed that students developed sonic knowledge of their surroundings by listening with awareness; understanding through awareness and memories; and giving meaning through memories to show a social and cultural relationship with their surroundings. In my dissertation, soundscape albums refer to an individual’s sonic environment and everyday life experiences; and sounding art is an ontology through artistic expressions.