Where the physical meets the human: proposition of a multidimensional research program for a music geography based on noise

Abstract

In this article, we propose a research program that, defining as subject matter the relationship between “soundscape” and “noise”, suggests that the field of Music Geography may be better fed by the simultaneous incorporation of three thematic perspectives or “dimensions”: physical, organic and cultural. Expanding the phenomenological cultural perspective, we seek to undertake a multidimensional analysis proposal on the spatial behavior of soundscapes that influence music production and, consequently, in the formation of musical identities. Supported by the geography of noise as an unfolding field of sonic geography, fundamental concepts of acoustics, hearing physiology and neuroscience are added. Therefore, itis expected to consolidate a theoretical-epistemological proposal that promotes points of intersection between physical and human geographies, and the understanding of music as a language, and as a human phenomenon derived from a natural one.