Soundmarks and Ecotones: Ensounding Scotland

Abstract

This chapter examines the modes of captures and production of what Raymond Ray Schafer coined ‘soundscape’ in his key 1977 monograph The Tuning of the World. Through the case studies of site-specific acoustic artworks by contemporary artists Dalziel+Scullion and Hanna Tuulikki, it endeavours to map the modes of inscription of spatialised and spatialising sounds within the scripted and the non-scripted, with a view to assessing the degree to which they participate in the revival of the romantic ideal of the total artwork, or Gesamtkunstwerk.