ABSTRACT

This chapter begins to interrogate the idea of sound as an important sociocultural experience, exploring spaces within Dublin city that were losing or had already lost their traditional soundscape as a result of urban planning and design. It confronts by the dichotomy of sounds, sonic experiences, soundscapes, sound memories and abstracted audio that have emerged from the six week residency at the Leitrim Sculpture centre. Often practicebased or led research involves developing a research strategy whose end goal is the construction of some artifact. The installation was a way in which to engage the audience with sonic memory or psychogeography, but also a retelling through the researcher's interpretation, cuts and edits of other remembered sound stories. A residency is in part a period of experimentation, particularly as a lot of installations become site specific, they tend to reference the place one are within and the space they exhibit within.