Transcribing Vale do Ave into sound: ‘seeing’ space through ‘listening’

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Cidália Ferreira
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Leite , Eugénia Aguiar
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://eras.mundis.pt/index.php/eras/article/view/16
• topic: Transcrição; Gramática; Território; Som; Espaço; Transcription; Territory; Sound; Space

Transcription of 'Ave’s Valley in sound' is generated through the intersection of territoryrepresentation with sound representation, as an operative tool for interpretation of two samples ofAve’s Valley — the centre of Guimarães and 'between Brito and Silvares' —, through creatingambivalent graphical notations, which represent both the space and the sound. In this paper, we presentthe reasoning of the transcription process crafted, which has as generating question: how to transcribethe urban space in sound? Recognizing that both the sound and the space are susceptible of graphicrepresentations, the outlined process generates a language of intersection between the ‘real’ space, ofthe selected samples, and the corresponding sound composition. What is the sound of each place’sspaces? How to find a common language? Developed experiments were carried out in order to addressthese issues, making research progress on the intersection between the representation of thecomposition of the territory and the sound composition, through the transcription methodologyconstructed, based on operative strategies. These strategies, came not only from understanding thelinkages 'between' space and sound, systematized in a language, explored through the grammar andthe created alphabet, but also by unfolding the transcription method applied to the selected samples,which resulted in original sound compositions consequent to the investigated space.