A Critical Reflection on Sonic Maps and the Search for an Audiovisual Cartography Model

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2025-01-01

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Bicer, Nehir Bera
Aral, Hacer Ela

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Sound is a spatiotemporal formation and the soundscape is a context-dependent perceptual phenomenon for the interrelationship between sound and space. Conventional maps tend towards a cartographic silence regarding their sonic spatiotemporality. Although critical cartography investigates different aspects of space, its relation to soundmapping is debatable. The growing interest in audiovisual cartography, however, has led to various approaches to associating sound and image in different fields such as cinema, soundscapes, human geography, and urbanism. This paper focuses on soundscape mapping and critically reflects on the limitations of existing strategies. Its main objective is to present an audiovisual cartography framework to promote broader conceptualizations and comprehensive applications of soundscape mapping. This paper defines the unique characteristics of sound phenomena that ground sonic ways of thinking in an audiovisual mapping model, and concludes with a critique of critical cartography to interrogate why it fails to meet the new insights arising from audiovisual integration.

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audiovisual cartography, cartographic silence, Critical cartography, soundscape

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/114277

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