Teotihuacan Sound Mapping: Exploring the Sonic Sphere of the City of the Gods

Author(s): Adje Both

Year: 2021

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Music Archaeology's Paradox: Contextual Dependency and Contextual Expressivity" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Teotihuacan Sound Mapping Project explores the role that sound and music played in the ancient urban environment of the site. The sound tools and musical instruments of Teotihuacan are re-created and played in different architectural settings, and the instrumental and architectural acoustics subsequently analyzed. With the aid of georeferenced sound mapping and multimedia applications, a virtual sound-map of the city and a soundwalk event for the visitors is created. The research explores new applications of experimental music-archaeological and archaeoacoustical research.

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Teotihuacan Sound Mapping: Exploring the Sonic Sphere of the City of the Gods. Adje Both. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 467314)

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Keywords

General
Experimental Archaeology • Highland Mesoamerica: Classic • Soundscape Research • Urbanism

Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica: Central Mexico

Spatial Coverage

min long: -107.271; min lat: 18.48 ; max long: -94.087; max lat: 23.161 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 32725