ECHO: Shards of sound

• Aretha Brito de Lima UFMG
• Eduardo dos Santos Andrade UFMG / UFSJ
• Flávio Luiz Schiavoni UFMG / UFSJ

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbcm.2025.13144

Resumo

This work is far more than just a sound sculpture or a digital musical instrument. It is, above all, an exercise in sonic memory — a living archive of Belo Horizonte’s urban soundscape. Through the act of listening and collecting, the city is mapped not by its streets or architecture, but by its acoustic textures, its rhythms, its voices, and the ephemeral sonic events that compose daily life. In an urban context where sound is often perceived as pollution — an unwanted residue of modern existence — this work proposes a different way of listening. It invites the audience to engage with the acoustic chaos of the city, not as mere noise, but as a carrier of meaning, memory, and identity. What is usually dismissed as sonic debris — engines, footsteps, metallic reverberations, overlapping conversations — becomes raw material for poetic reconstruction. Each sound fragment functions as a shard, a broken piece of the city’s auditory landscape. As participants rearrange these fragments, they build an ever-changing mosaic of stories, invisible geographies, and collective memories. What was once perceived as disorder transforms into an intimate, tactile, and deeply human experience of sound, space, and presence.

Referências

R. Murray Schafer. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. Destiny Books, Rochester, VT, 1977.

Douglas Kahn. Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999.

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1987.

J.L. Austin. How to Do Things with Words. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1962. Edited by J.O. Urmson and Marina Sbisà.

Juliana Carla Bastos. Ética Sonora: Escuta, Presença e Alteridade. Editora XYZ, São Paulo, 2021. In Portuguese.

Pauline Oliveros. Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice. iUniverse, New York, 2005.

Brandon LaBelle. Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life. Continuum, New York, 2010.

Salomé Voegelin. Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art. Continuum, London, 2010.