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CSC Research Lecture: The Baguio Soundscape Project: A Preliminary Critical Sound Map of the City (Meamo)
April 8 @ 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The Cordillera Studies Center is inviting everyone to a hybrid format lecture with Benjamin George P. Meamo III on 8 April 2025 (Tuesday), 1:30 pm onwards, at the CSS AVR, UP Baguio. Join us!
You may attend online via Zoom by registering through the link below:
https://bit.ly/MeamoCSCLec
F2F attendees also welcome! Please pre-pregister through:
https://bit.ly/F2FMeamoCSCLec
ABSTRACT
The Baguio Soundscape Project is a preliminary critical sound map of the City of Baguio, Philippines. Using Milena Droumeva’s (2017) three-pronged frames of reference in doing critical sound map, the study seeks to present the soundscape of Baguio and discuss how lived experiences in an urban space can be defined through sound. Using data collected from field recordings, photographs, sound diaries, and focus group discussions (FGD) with 15 participants who were either born and raised or have lived for more than six (6) months in the city, the research identified eight (8 ) themes that constitute the Baguio soundscape.
These themes show how the city is experienced, occupied, and lived in through sound. The findings argue that through the frames of listening publics, maps grammar, and recording cultures (Droumeva 2017), the Baguio Soundscape Project offers a critical sound map which encourages social participation, emancipation, and creativity when listening into and recording our lived experiences in the city.
Source: Cordillera Studies Center UP Baguio Facebook