Sounding Sydney:

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Todays listener might chart a
course through central Sydney,
visiting these recordings in
much the same way that one
might visit a monument or
landmark. I think of them as
sound marks, in that they allow
for experiential, earwitness
encounters with the traces of a
sites recorded geography.
While the recordings are
intended for a site-specic
encounter, they are not designed
to structure your physical
navigation of an environment.
They simply to mark a space-
time, or series of space-times.
When you listen, youll hear no
instructions as to which way
you should walk, or which way
you should look. You might nd
yourself a bit surprised by the
sense of listening in to what
happened, right here, at another
point in time.
The recordings draw
extensively from the collections
of the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation (ABC) and the
National Film and Sound
Archive (NFSA). I gratefully
acknowledge the support of both
organisations. All recordings
can also be downloaded
at sitesandsounds.net.au/
soundings
Sounding Sydney:
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Sarah Barns


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UNRULY CITY
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1. I built a city of green, the best
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