ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the journey of composing audio portraits as an entry point to understand the layered histories of place through an attention to the affective and resonant possibilities of sound. The temporalities of listening during the creation of the sound portraits form a current under the later listening and engagement of attendees at an art installation where these portraits were displayed. The chapter presents the context of the study, the timeline, and methods of our research before moving to focus on the audio and visual portraits in collaboration, and our presentation of these portraits as part of a community art installation. It moves through the process of data generation and creation of the audio portraits. The compilation brought together student narratives in dialogue, troubling, and contesting linear or easy histories of place, playing with pause and quiet and silence.
