Cinema Courses
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Special Courses
- Mapping the Soundscape
Mapping the Soundscape
In Fall of 2022 the Mapping the Soundscape Scholars class began to create an evolving sound archive. Every week hours of recordings were gathered from various locations within Binghamton University's 182 acre nature preserve. Several different microphones were used to record the Biophony, Anthropophony, and Geophonies of sound along the trails. The class was informed and guided partially by two books, Bernie Krause's “Wild Soundscapes” along with “Reading the Forested Landscape” by Tom Wessels. Guests invited into the class included Dylan Horvath, steward of the Nature Preserve, and Justin Mann, a behavioral ecologist with a specialization in migratory bird patterns. Many in class and out of class hours were spent familiarizing students with the nature preserves trails and the diversity it offers. The recordings spanned the full semester from late Summer into early Winter and several projects culminated out of the recording processes. The first was the start of a sound archive for the nature preserve in addition to field notes and photos. The second included group sound compositions gleaned from the many hours of recordings.