Tim Ingold is British anthropologist and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. In his recent work, he links the themes of environmental perception and skilled practice, replacing traditional models of genetic and cultural transmission, founded upon the alliance of neo-Darwinian biology and cognitive science, with a relational approach focusing on the growth of embodied skills of perception and action within social and environmental contexts of human development. This has taken him to examining the use of lines in culture (Lines: a brief hostory), and the relationship between anthropology, architecture, art and archaeology (Making). Our humanity, Ingold argues, does not come ready-made but is continually fashioned in our movements along ways of life. Starting from the idea of life as a process of wayfaring, Ingold presents a radically new understanding of movement, knowledge and description as dimensions not just of being in the world, but of being alive to what is going on there. A central concern in Ingold's writings is a call to rescue the practice of anthropology from ethnography (the presentation of empirical data on human societies and cultures). Instead of seeing the purpose of anthropology as the mere description of human practices, Ingold purports to show that practicing anthropology is a way of engageing in the lives of others, with the potential to contribute to real transformation, through explorations of the conditions and possibilities of human life in the world. Ingold aims to bring anthropology back to the center of public debates about what it means to be human, about freedom, about responsibility, about ethics.

The recordings presented here are illustrations of the sonic effects identified & described in

« Sonic experience – a guide to everyday sounds« 

Thinking through Making. Professor Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen, Scotland Ever since Aristotle, it has been customary in the western tradition to think of making as a bringing together of a preconceived, ideal form, in the mind of the maker, with an initially formless mass of raw material. In this view, all the thinking has been done before the making begins. And for those who encounter the finished object, the thought can only be recovered by reading back from the work to an idea in the mind of the maker. Here I present an alternative account of making, as an inherently mindful activity in which the forms of things are ever-emergent from the correspondence of sensory awareness and material flows in a process of life. Artefacts and thoughts are the more or less ephemeral cast-offs of this process, strewn along the way. Rather than imposing form on matter, the maker -- operating within a field of forces that cut across any divisions between body and environment -- is caught between the anticipatory reach of the imagination and the frictional drag of materials.

00:00 01 Ocean Sounds 06:16 02 Squamish Narrative 12:13 03 Entrance to the Harbour 19:32 04 Harbour Ambience 26:11 05 The Music of Horns and Whistles 29:24 06 Vancouver Soundmarks 33:23 07 Homo Ludens - Vancouverites at Play 38:38 08 The Music of Various City Quarters 46:59 09 New Year's Eve in Vancouver Harbour 55:31 10 On Acoustic Design 1:15:59 11 A Conversation Piece 1:35:25 VanscapeSide2Track3

Label: Recollection GRM – REGRM 001, Editions Mego – REGRM 001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: Austria Released: 06 May 2012 Genre: Electronic Style: Experimental

Tracklist

A1 Plutôt Dynamique (Étude Banale) 0:00

A2 Plutôt Harmonique 3:30

A3 Plutôt Mélodique 7:56

A4 Moins Banal (Interlude, Ou Impromptu)14:50

B5 Toccata Et Fugue 18:14

B6 Baroque (Second Interlude) 23:05

B7 Strette 27:04 Companies, etc.

Phonographic Copyright (p) – INA-GRM Copyright (c) – Recollection GRM Copyright (c) – INA Lacquer Cut At – Dubplates & Mastering Credits Coordinator [Coordination GRM] – Christian Zanési, François Bonnet (2) Executive-Producer [Executive Production] – Peter Rehberg Lacquer Cut By [Cut By] – Rashad Becker Layout – Stephen O'Malley Liner Notes – Christian Zanési, François Bonnet (2) Liner Notes [Translations] – Valérie Vivancos Photography By [Photo] – Laszlo Ruszka Sounds [Synthetic Sounds Developed By] – Bernard Dürr Notes "Le Trièdre Fertile" (Fertile Trihedron) full version 1975-1976 [total time 35'56] Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, March 2012 Photo : Laszlo Ruszka (01/07/1973) © Ina ℗ 1976 INA-GRM © 2012 Recollection GRM. Released in association with Editions Mego. Courtesy of INA-GRM. Packaged in embossed jacket with printed inner sleeve. Liner notes in French and English. Tracktitles listed sequentially on release. Barcode and Other Identifiers Barcode (Sticker, As printed): 9 120020 389099 Barcode (Sticker, String): 9120020389099 Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A, Etched): REGRM 001 A ®@D&m Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B, Etched): REGRM 001 B ®@D&m

Solfège de l'objet sonore (1967), by Pierre Schaeffer. Sound examples by Guy Reibel and Beatriz Ferreyra. Published by INA-GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales), 1998-2005. Narrator: Pierre Schaeffer. Original in French with English subtitles.