Listening within Sound: recording and sound editing from an ecological paradigm

Abstract

I discuss in this text the sound from the ecological perspective. It is an anthropological understanding of sonorities as entities in a set of relationships and interactions rather than simple data or aspects of the landscape. I argue that the processes of recording and editing sounds are not merely reproductions of the real, but specific approaches to the perception-action systems that compose the landscapes studied. I still follow the discussion about ethnography as a transduction to think how recording and editing work in these approaches to the perceptual systems that we come across in the field. The idea of listening in sound is understood here as a way of education of attention or discovery oriented to the production of sound records in the field, considering the argument of transduction as a way of making sound ethnographies.