Methodology

Broad Research Questions:

• What does my immediate soundscape entail? How can I describe what I am hearing?
• Can I compare it to past soundscapes?
• What issues will I focus on?
• Why should these issue be important to anyone other than myself?
• Can I write for an academic and lay audience? Engage people from multiple backgrounds?

Methods of documentation and recording:

• Started recording on 5/9/14
• Wrote down the days, but not always the time of day.
• Recorded extensively the sounds I can hear from my apartment
• Soundwalks to and from the UCSD Hospital
• Recorded long stretches of time, then short time periods

Challenges and Moving forward:

• Ethics of soundscape recording
• Discuss space vs. place
• Ambulance sirens and new emergency vehicle technology
• Include history of neighborhood and certain buildings?
• Eventually move beyond immediate neighborhood in Hillcrest and research other "sound blocks"
• Look at works of:
• Annea Lockwood
• John Levack Drever
• Bernard Krause
• Soundwalking Interactions research group (possibly contact this group)

Ongoing Research Questions:

• How do I frame my research within existing methodologies and theoretical frameworks?
• What is the best interdisciplinary approach?
• Urban Soundscape
• Urban Planning, Design, Architecture
• Urban Development and Politics
• Ecomusicology
• Acoustic Ecology
• Ethnography (talking to others in the neighborhood, survey their soundscape experiences)