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Sonic Palimpsest Heritage Soundmap (online version)

Pasoulas, Aki, Martin, Brona, Knight-Hill, Andrew (2023) Sonic Palimpsest Heritage Soundmap (online version). . Online. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:101598)

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Abstract

The soundmap presents events that took place at Chatham Dockyard during the period of five centuries, between its foundation as a working yard in 1547 and its closure in 1984. During that time, more than 500 warships were launched in the dockyard and thousands more were repaired. Our research team collected scores of stories of this period through diaries, oral history archives, written accounts, maps and photographs.

This soundmap represents a small sample of those stories, eavesdropping on past ages through a virtual time machine. These are mapped in two ways: in time, starting from the 1500s; and in themes, which are divided in ‘Community’, Growth and Experience’, ‘Technology’, ‘Craftmanship’ and ‘International Relationships’.

The stories we (re)created were performed by members of the Rainham Theatrical Society on an original script written by our collaborator Purni Morell.

18 soundscape compositions were compiled and composed by Brona Martin, 16 by Aki Pasoulas and 3 by Andrew Knight-Hill.

Item Type: Internet publication
Projects: Sonic Palimpsest: Revisiting Chatham Historic Dockyards
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain
H Social Sciences
M Music and Books on Music > M Music
N Visual Arts > N Visual arts (General). For photography, see TR
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Arts
Funders: Arts and Humanities Research Council (https://ror.org/0505m1554)
Depositing User: Aki Pasoulas
Date Deposited: 08 Jun 2023 15:36 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Jun 2023 09:33 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/101598 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Pasoulas, Aki.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6734-9133
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Martin, Brona.

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