Portfolio of Original Electroacoustic Compositions - PhD Thesis

<p dir="ltr">This Portfolio of electroacoustic compositions comprises 6 works that combined soundscape composition practice with anthropological methodologies to create collaborative soundscape compositions. This work realises the need for a diversity of practitioners and mindsets in soundscape composition and turns to a lineage of ethnographic disciplines as a premise for methodological tools that might be used in practicing soundscape composition ethically with people. The soundscape compositions take the form of autoethnography, duoethnogarphy and collaborative ethnography.</p><p dir="ltr">The pieces are presented here chronologically in relation to the three projects they emerged from: Green spaces in South Manchester (<i>Reflections on A Secret Garden</i>, <i>The Warmth of Other Suns</i>, <i>If We Could Hear</i>), Child-Tree Relations in Moss Side (<i>A Grove of Children</i>), and Zimbabwe-Leicester Migrations (<i>Unganidza Mutundu</i>, <i>Tauya: we have arrived</i>). The accompanying commentary explains the overall ethos as well as the context, theory and analysis for each individual piece.</p>