Performing land-based knowledge through modes of sonic mapping and storytelling

Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper expands on concepts of and approaches to Land-based research through the investigation of sonic (sound) archiving strategies and how these are used as a mode of mapping meant to help preserve oral/aural forms of knowledge, experience, memory, and expressions of Land literacy (Land knowledge) through sound recording work. Building on growing fields such as sound studies, performance studies, and Indigenous studies, we look at ways to re-‘map’ or re-call knowledge through Land-based methods that are rooted in our interactive Land-based research project, Sonic Coordinates.