Event Title
Moonscapes From Oregon
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Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
20-9-2019 11:00 AM
End Date
20-9-2019 11:50 AM
Description
This past May, seventeen Belmont students and faculty traveled to the Cascade Mountains in Oregon to explore issues of food, faith, and the environment as a part of a short-term study away program. From a remote location at the Oregon Extension just outside of Ashland, OR, the group arrived at the beginning of a new moon cycle with a full moon visible toward the end of the trip. In order to study the impact of moonlight on the natural environment, one student in Dr. Overall’s Modern Rhetoric of the Environment course recorded three different soundscapes for three different phases of the moon. In the field of sonic rhetorics, soundscapes are presented as persuasive texts that help audiences to hear the world in distinct and new ways. This presentation seeks to further explore the genre of the soundscape and explain the environmental context of the Oregon Extension before playing the Oregon moonscapes and presenting the findings.
Recommended Citation
Overall, Joel; Heard, Matthew; and Antis, Evelyn, "Moonscapes From Oregon" (2019). Humanities Symposium. 2.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2019/2019/2
WAV, archival-quality recording
Moonscapes Humanities Symposium Segment.pptx (104762 kB)
Moonscapes From Oregon
Janet Ayers Academic Center 4094
This past May, seventeen Belmont students and faculty traveled to the Cascade Mountains in Oregon to explore issues of food, faith, and the environment as a part of a short-term study away program. From a remote location at the Oregon Extension just outside of Ashland, OR, the group arrived at the beginning of a new moon cycle with a full moon visible toward the end of the trip. In order to study the impact of moonlight on the natural environment, one student in Dr. Overall’s Modern Rhetoric of the Environment course recorded three different soundscapes for three different phases of the moon. In the field of sonic rhetorics, soundscapes are presented as persuasive texts that help audiences to hear the world in distinct and new ways. This presentation seeks to further explore the genre of the soundscape and explain the environmental context of the Oregon Extension before playing the Oregon moonscapes and presenting the findings.
Comments
Lecture begins at 06:44, soundscape audio before that.