When you’re feeling sad, you can lie in your bed and look at it: Soundscapes for feeling better
At the dots: making the connections for change, we’re fascinated by “feeling better”. How can we support ourselves as individuals, as communities, as societies and as part of the environment that we live in to “feel better'? “. Is feeling better a fleeting feeling, or is it part of a trajectory of feeling good? What does it feel like to feel better? How do we know? And as communities, what are the things that bind us in “feeling better?”. Part creative practice, part research tool, part experiment, we’re trying something new to find out more.
When you're feeling sad, you can lie in your bed and look at it: Soundscapes on feeling better.
In this collection of soundscapes, we’re capturing moments when people feel better (or when they feel good) to find out where there are connections between our subjective experiences of feeling good. Taking the title from a child’s eye view on the project; we’re also curious to explore how these sounds can help us to feel better beyond the instant it was recorded, and what this might tell us about feeling good and what we need-beyond fleeting expeirences of joy, not as individuals, but as communities.
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When you're feeling sad you can lie in your bed and look at it: Soundscapes on feeling better.
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Emergent patterns:
Part of this project is to play around with traditional research methods; to think again about what knowledge means, how we can gather it, and how we can analyse it. In this space, we’re playing with sound as a research method. Underpinning this, as always, is our commitment to an ethic of care. Of making sure that people’s experiences and voices are heard, and that research is meaningful and worthwhile. We hope that through taking part in this experiment, folk will both learn and share their knowledge. We’re asking 10 people to record 30 second snippets of times when they feel better and share these with us.
The questions we’re asking are: what does it sound like to feel better? What does that process of recording feel like? What does it feel like to re-listen to this? What about listening to others? Does it still make you “feel better? What are our shared themes?
Keep updated with our findings and get in touch to find out more. If you’d like to respond to this experiment either through your own sound clip, image or text, just get in touch.