Listening to Climate Change: Integrating Awareness & Acceptance Through a More-Than-Human Music

How can climate change be woven into human imagination and memory through sound? This question is investigated through the design of environmentally-activated instruments, or listening devices. Participants interface with climate through these devices, devising a new sonic form of interacting with geophonic processes as they are articulated by architectural augmentations. This thesis addresses and reimagines temporal landscapes to remap and remake connections to climate through designed listening devices. Augmented interactions between humans and environmental phenomena may facilitate the development of a visceral knowledge of climatic realities. Part of this knowledge lies in the differences between human-produced music and environmentally produced sound. Participants engaging these new devices and landscapes must listen and adapt, letting go of accepted musical norms to incorporate the climate's sonic language into their musical sensibilities. It is anticipated that this "letting go" may aid the necessary philosophical and behavioural shift towards adapting to a new climate paradigm.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture (M.Arch.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Carleton University

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Wallace, Joshua Nathan Bruce

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright © 2019 the author(s). Theses may be used for non-commercial research, educational, or related academic purposes only. Such uses include personal study, research, scholarship, and teaching. Theses may only be shared by linking to Carleton University Institutional Repository and no part may be used without proper attribution to the author. No part may be used for commercial purposes directly or indirectly via a for-profit platform; no adaptation or derivative works are permitted without consent from the copyright owner.

Language dc:language.iso

en

DOI

10.22215/etd/2019-13629

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:carleton.scholaris.ca:20.500.14718/40781