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Seeking Birdscapes

«Seeking Birdscapes» explores human-nature relations by focusing on the auditory, sonic, and musical dimensions of people’s engagement with their physical surroundings (soundscapes) in which birds play a significant role.

Brief information

School:

Music

Status:

Ongoing

Period:

01.03.2019 - 28.02.2023

Overview

Up-to-date information about the project, the research process, and its outcomes (in German) can be found at: https://www.hslu.ch/de-ch/hochschule-luzern/forschung/ausgewaehlte-projekte/birdscapes/

Since the 1970s, sonic environments have been viewed in ever broader music-cultural, ecological, and technological contexts. The SNSF-project «Seeking Birdscapes – Contemporary Listening and Recording Practices in Ornithology and Environmental Sound Art», led by Helena Simonett and Patricia Jäggi, aims at gaining new insights into the relationship between humans and nature. We assume that people perceive nature sounds such as the songs and calls of birds differently depending on their personal biographies. In addition, we assume that cultural as well as geographical factors are influential. There are numerous studies within one ecosystem (e.g., Amazon or Arctic Siberia), but no comparison of different geographic environments inside Europe, such as densely populated areas in Central (Switzerland) or Southern Europe (Catalonia) and the sparsely populated island of Iceland. The project focuses on a selection of people, such as field ornithologists, sound artists, and composers. Through interviews, sound recordings and observations in the field, the experience of bird voices and the imaginative worlds behind them are investigated. We are also interested in the ways in which auditory experiences shape biographies and, ultimately, environmental awareness.

Through the collaboration with the Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach, the Foundation BirdLife Lucerne and the Natural History Museum of Lucerne, as well as through the public presentation of our research, the SNSF-project aims at raising awareness about the characteristic soundscapes that surround us as part of our intangible heritage. For that purpose, the subproject “Seeking Birdscapes & Interdisciplinary Art Mediation” was started. It is part of the Interdisciplinary cluster “Spatial Development and Social Cohesion” and aims at developing new methodologies and mediation formats for the outcomes of the SNSF project. This subproject was initiated and is led by Marie-Louise Nigg and Patricia Jäggi.

Contact for the SNSF project and the interdisciplinary subproject: Patricia Jäggi (patricia.jaeggi@hslu.ch).

 

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Facts

Type of project

Forschung

Internal organisations involved
  • CC Kunst, Design & Öffentlichkeit
  • CC Music Education Research
External project partner
  • Schweizerische Vogelwarte Sempach
  • BirdLife Luzern
  • Natur-Museum Luzern
Funding
  • SNF-HSLU als Hauptgesuchsteller/in
  • Forschungsfinanzierung allgemein
  • ITC Raum und Gesellschaft
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Links

  • Podcast zum Projekt anlässlich der Eröffnung der Hochschule Luzern - Musik "OuverTüren"

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Persons involved: internal

Project manager
  • Marie-Louise Nigg
  • Helena Simonett
Project Co-Head
  • Patricia Jäggi
Member of project team
  • Marc-Antoine Camp
  • Natalie Kirschstein
  • Matthias Lewy
  • Martina Lussi
  • Marie-Louise Nigg

Publications

  • Artistic work/music (1)

    • Doolittle, Emily (Komponist/in); Jäggi, Patricia (Interpret/in) & Schoepe, Hannah (Interpret/in) (2020). Gardenscape [Arranged recordings of violin birds (played by Hannah Schoepe, arranged by Patricia Jäggi) with live violin (Hannah Schoepe), live electronic (underwater microphones) and water bowls (played by Patricia Jäggi, Hannah Schoepe)]. Hochschule Luzern - Musik, 08. Oktober 2022: https://www.hslu.ch/en/lucerne-university-of-applied-sciences-and-arts/research/selected-projects/birdscapes/konferenz/

  • Artistic, art-related work/art and design (1)

    • Jäggi, Patricia; Kirschstein, Natalie; Lewy, Matthias; Lussi, Martina; Nigg, Marie-Louise & Simonett, Helena (2022). Birdscapes [Ausstellung im Natur-Museum Luzern, 16.09 – 3.11.2022]. Lucerne. https://www.hslu.ch/de-ch/hochschule-luzern/forschung/ausgewaehlte-projekte/birdscapes/

  • Article, review; peer reviewed (6)

    • Jäggi, Patricia (01.11.2022). Mit tausend Ohren hören, oder: Was ist Deep Listening? Positionen: Texte zur aktuellen Musik, 133(04/2022), 36-45.

    • Jäggi, Patricia (2022). (Re)Creating Avian Worlds: Experiences of and Reflections on Making, Listening to and Composing with Field Recordings of Birds. Filigrane. Musique, esthétique, sciences, société, (26), online.

    • Lewy, Matthias & Simonett, Helena (2022). Das Dilemma der Modernen: Mensch-Vogel-Beziehung akustisch. Tierstudien, 21, 133-143.

    • Jäggi, Patricia (15.03.2021). Listening to Reveries: Sounds of a Post-Anthropocene Ecology. Fusion Journal, (19), 90-101.

    • Simonett, Helena (2021). Stilles Sterben: Das Verstummen traditioneller indigener Klangpraktiken in Nordwest-Mexiko. Tierstudien, (20), 100-109.

    • Kirschstein, Natalie (2020). Un-Lost in Translation: Sound, Ecology, Activism. Chigiana Journal of Musicological Studies Themed Edition: Out of Nature: Music, Natural Sounds Sources, and Acoustic Ecology, 50, 49-68.

  • Article, review; not peer reviewed (4)

    • Jäggi, Patricia (22.04.2022). Dawn Chorus der Stadt. das Bulletin. Für Alltag und Populäres, online.

    • Jäggi, Patricia (14.01.2022). Früher die liebliche Nachtigall – heute die gemeine Amsel? das Bulletin. Für Alltag und Populäres, 01(01), online.

    • Jäggi, Patricia (2019). Review zu: Rachel Mundy: Animal musicalities: birds, beasts, and evolutionary listening. Middletown 2018 [Besprechung des Buchs Rachel Mundy: Animal musicalities: birds, beasts, and evolutionary listening. Middletown]. The world of music (new series), (volume 8, issue 2 (2019)), 94-96.

    • Jäggi, Patricia (2019). Book review: Stuart McLean: Fictionalizing Anthropology. Encounters and Fabulations at the Edge of the Human (2018) [Besprechung des Buchs Stuart McLean: Fictionalizing Anthropology. Encounters and Fabulations at the Edge of the Human. Minnesota 2018]. Anthropos: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde = international review of ethnology and linguistics = revue internationale d'ethnologie et de linguistique = ephemeris internationalis ethnologica et linguistica / Hrsg.: Anthropos Institut, (114.2019/2), 619.

  • Chapter/legal commentary/lexicon article (1)

    • Jäggi, Patricia (2021). Vögel singen in stillen Städten. Lockdown als ökologische Utopie im Anthropozän. In Jan Beuerbach, Silke Gülker, Uta Karstein, Ringo Rösener (Hrsg.), Sinn in der Krise. Kulturwissenschaftliche Beobachtungen zur Covid-19- Pandemie (S. 317-334). Berlin: De Gruyter.

  • Other publication formats (2)

    • Jäggi, Patricia (07.06.2021). Seeking Birdscapes in Iceland. https://soundcloud.com/user-505460012

    • Jäggi, Patricia (16.02.2021). The Ghosts of Colonialism.

  • Presentation (conference/report/lectures) (32)

    • Jäggi, Patricia (13.12.2022). Icelandic Silences: ökoaktivistische und künstlerische Resonanzen auf sich verändernde Lebenswelten von Menschen und Vögeln. Hingehört! Der Sound des Anthropozäns, Online.

    • Jäggi, Patricia (30.11.2022). Listening to Birdscapes - Seeking approaches to multispecies worlds of sounding and hearing. Enjeux écologiques dans la musique et la musicologie, Genève.

    • Jäggi, Patricia (13.10.2022). Birds on the Move. Listening Session N°1 – CH Acoustic Ecology, Basel.

    • Jäggi, Patricia (07.10.2022). Seeking Birdscapes in Iceland: A Multimodal Reflection on Auditory Fieldwork with Birds. Seeking Birdscapes: Musik, Ökologie und die Klangwelten der Vögel, Hochschule Luzern - Musik.

    • Kirschstein, Natalie & Simonett, Helena (07.10.2022). Tùn resùn: Walking in the Sounding Forest. Conference Seeking Birdscapes: Musik, Ökologie und die Klangwelten der Vögel, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lucerne, Switzerland.

    • Nigg, Marie-Louise (07.10.2022). Non/humane Imaginationsräume – Birdscapes in den Künsten. Seeking Birdscapes: Musik, Ökologie und die Klangwelten der Vögel, Luzern-Kriens.

    • Jäggi, Patricia (05.09.2022). Den Vögeln zuhören. Flying-Science-Reihe zum Thema «Zuhören», Hotels Eden, Rheinfelden.

    • Jäggi, Patricia (24.06.2022). Dawn Chorus of an Urban Island. Sonic Lecture on the Local Birdscape. Sonic Topologies, Old Botanical Garden Zürich.

    • Kirschstein, Natalie (16.06.2022). Birds, Songs, and Birdsongs: Sounding, Silencing, and Listening for a Healthy Ecology. Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2022, Taiwan (online).

    • Simonett, Helena (01.06.2022). Mensch-Tier-Transformation jenseits von Natur und Kultur: Von der Ethnographie zur Theorie. Kolloquium zu aktuellen Fragen in der Musikforschung, Institut für Musikwissenschaft Weimar-Jena, Weimar-Jena, Deutschland.

    • Jäggi, Patricia (03.05.2022). Listening to Birdscapes – Annäherung an multispezifische Klang- und Hörwelten von Vögeln. Ringvorlesung: Schon gehört? Die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Interpretation akustischer Daten, Marburg.

    • Simonett, Helena (09.02.2022). Mensch-Tier-Transformationen jenseits von Natur und Kultur: Schlussfolgerungen aus einer musikethnologischen Betrachtung indigener Kosmologien. Mittwochskonferenzen Forschungszentrum Historische Geisteswissenschaften, online.

    • Simonett, Helena (27.11.2021). Hören oder sehen? – Indigene Hörkonzepte auf dem Prüfstand der westlichen Wissenschaft. Hinhören–Zuhören– Weghören ÖGMW 2021 Jahrestagung, online.

    • Jäggi, Patricia (11.11.2021). Sonic habitats. Some preliminary reflections from a multispecies ethnography in liminal spaces/times. RASCAL (Research in Animal Sound, Culture and Literature), online.

    • Jäggi, Patricia (25.10.2021). (Re)creating sound ecologies using field recording techniques (WORKSHOP). FIBER Reassemble: Sound Ecologies, Amsterdam.

    • Kirschstein, Natalie (23.10.2021). Please Listen Responsibly: Imagining Ourselves in the World Through Sound and Silence. Annual Meeting, Lucerne.

    • Lewy, Matthias (23.10.2021). Zur Typologie von Mensch-Vogel Klangnarrativen (Birdscapes) in naturalistisch-zentrierten Ontologien. CH-EM Herbsttagung 2021, Luzern.

    • Jäggi, Patricia (12.07.2021). Seeking Birdscapes – Contemporary Listening and Recording Practices in Ornithology and Sound Art. A research project with artistic approaches. NES Artist Presentations, Skagaströnd, Iceland.

    • Lewy, Matthias (30.06.2021). Kanaima and the aiyan timescape layer. Birdsong and other sound entities in the circum-Roraima region. SALSA (The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America) XIII Biennial Conference, Charlottesville USA (Online).

    • Jäggi, Patricia (10.06.2021). Seeking Birdscapes – Contemporary Listening and Recording Practices in Ornithology and Sound Art. A research project with artistic approaches. NES Artist Presentations, Skagaströnd, Iceland.

    • Simonett, Helena (10.04.2021). "Lo que canta el carrizo": Contemplating the Relationship between Human and Nonhuman Birds. Panel Chair: "Sound Ecologies: Birds, Trees, and Other Sounding and Listening Agencies". Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE), U.K., online.

    • Jäggi, Patricia (10.04.2021). Sound Ecology and Sound Ethics: Concepts and Practices of Listening to «Nature». Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology 2021: Music, Culture and Nature, Bath (Online).

    • Lewy, Matthias (10.04.2021). Meaning of Bird Sounds in Indigenous Sound Ontologies: Landscape, Environment, and Non-Human Agencies in the Guianas. 2021 BFE (British Forum for Ethnomusicology), Bath UK (Online).

    • Kirschstein, Natalie (10.04.2021). Un-Lost in Translation: Sound, Ecology, Activism. Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE) 2021: Music, Culture and Nature, Bath UK (Online).

    • Kirschstein, Natalie (29.03.2021). Please Listen Responsibly: Imagining Ourselves in the World through Sound and Silence. ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists) Annual Conference 2021: Responsibility, St. Andrews UK (Online).

    • Lewy, Matthias (29.03.2021). Indigenous strategies of reverse-silencing in the Guianas. ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists) Annual Conference 2021: Responsibility, St. Andrews USA (Online).

    • Jäggi, Patricia (29.03.2021). Sounds and Silences of a Post-Anthropocene Future. ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists) Annual Conference 2021: Responsibility, St. Andrews (Onlinne).

    • Jäggi, Patricia & Kirschstein, Natalie (31.10.2020). Listening to Forests and Performing with Birds: Practices of Aural Biophilia in Times of Ecological Crisis. Music Studies on a Damaged Planet: Sound Responses to Environmental Breakdown, Online.

    • Jäggi, Patricia & Kirschstein, Natalie (26.08.2020). Listening to Forests and Performing with Birds: Practices of Aural Biophilia in Times of Ecological Crisis. Performing, Engaging, Knowing, Online.

    • Jäggi, Patricia (11.12.2019). Die Radikalität des Vogelgesangs. Neubad Lecture, Luzern.

    • Jäggi, Patricia (21.11.2019). From the bird's sonic stance: Reflections on human-animal sound interactions. Colloque «Les animaux en ethnographie: quelles méthodes d’enquête, quelles postures éthiques?», Paris.

    • Jäggi, Patricia (03.09.2019). Silent Spring 2.0: Post-Anthropocenic Futures in Sound Art. ASA19 Conference, Norwich.

Brief information

School:

Music

Status:

Ongoing

Period:

03/01/2019 - 02/28/2023

Project Head

Prof. Dr. Marie-Louise Nigg

Lecturer

+41 41 248 61 63

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Project Head

Prof. Dr. Helena Simonett

Senior Research Associate

+41 41 249 26 84

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Project Co-Head

Dr. Patricia Jäggi

Senior Research Associate

+41 41 249 26 25

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