Sounds of
Community
Areas and
Local
Environments
Sound Mapping
Sounds of Community Areas and Local Environments
Join us on a Sound Walk through Bradford’s iconic listening spots – maybe with cake at the end.
Bradford is a city with a rich, historic sonic tapestry. Our city envelops us through sound, and in turn we inform Bradford through the sounds we project back into it; in this way we give the city life. This is a symbiotic relationship where “Sound and space are inextricably connected, interlocked in a dynamic
through which each performs the other”
Captured within the sonic landscape, between these two instruments of self and hosting environment, city and self weave together to form one sounding body. They are more than a physicality, they are the manifestation of a transgenerational network of sounding communities. Sound has no boundaries, and “can easily penetrate and permeate” , it is immersive, but can it penetrate people and place deeply enough for Bradford’s sonic past to resonate with its present?
From the prayer call at White Abbey to the howling winds of Baildon moor, each area has its own sonic identity yet there is a commonality within our sonic lineage that unites us. Can we identify specific areas just by listening?
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