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Taipei City No. 1 Girls’ High School – Soundscape – Explore city affairs in the city

Soundscape is a compound word for sound plus scenery, referred to as "soundscape", written by Canadian composer R. Murray
Schafer founded the World Soundscape Project in the early 1970s, focusing on education and research.
In addition to studying soundscape ecology from different aspects such as philosophy, architecture, and sociology, it has left countless
The purpose of sound recording is to promote the harmony between the crowd and the sound environment, and the overall sound environment is called "environmental
music".
In this semester's art life course, we start with sound exploration, follow voice actors around the city, and write + hand-draw the city.
"Sound itself can evoke the impression of space." Walk along the four lines of the east, west, south, and north gates, and move through the eyes.
The Walk and Ear Walk reconstructs the impression of the sixteen-year-old Green Garden girl in the city.
Every city has its unique expression. Walking in the city of Taipei, which is changing with the times, what we see is that the existing
The texture is constantly stacked and reconstructed, and in this change, the message conveyed by the sound is also reflected in the city.
How is translated and recreated. Slow walking is visually very peaceful, but on a soundscape level it is extremely noisy and noisy.
place. The girls reproduced the city through sound collection, sound poems, pictures, hand drawings, and writing of the city's soundscapes.
In fact, it inherits the soul and life of the city. Only through continuous writing and recording can we deepen our understanding of culture.
Landscape identity and meaning.

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