Journal article
Scoring the journey: listening to Claudia Molitor's Sonorama
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Sonorama is a 2015 sonic artwork by Claudia Molitor, consisting of a number of audio files designed for listening on a train journey between London St Pancras and Margate, and a graphic score based on the composer's own ‘reading’ of this journey. This article analyses the relationship between the sonic and the spatial in the work, exploring how Molitor's site-specific composition interacts with its environment on multiple scales. By drawing on the strategy of ‘situated listening’ developed by Gascia Ouzounian, as well as urbanist language introduced by Richard Sennett, this article seeks to elucidate the relationship between a number of ‘nested’ spaces, present across varying realisations, and the political agenda that energises the work. Written in the midst of summer 2015's European refugee crisis, the work brings into sharp focus themes of British exceptionalism, immigration and inclusion.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 154.1KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1017/s0040298221000644
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Tempo More from this journal
- Volume:
- 76
- Issue:
- 299
- Pages:
- 44-56
- Publication date:
- 2021-12-15
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-09-16
- DOI:
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1478-2286
- ISSN:
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0040-2982
- Language:
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English
- Pubs id:
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2078529
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pubs:2078529
- Deposit date:
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2025-10-07
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- Copyright holder:
- Jonathan Packham
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040298221000644
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