- Title:
- Songs of the Ottawa: A Sonified Environmental History of the Changing Riverscape from the Chaudière Falls to Kettle and Duck Islands, 1880 to 1980
- Creator:
- Wood, Cristina
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Degree Awarded:
- Master of Arts - Public History with Digital Humanities Specialization
- Subjects:
- Industry Sonification Environment Ottawa River Ottawa Public History
- Geographical Focus:
- Canada Ottawa
- Supporting Materials:
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190607130832/http://songsoftheottawa.ca/
- Description:
- "Songs of the Ottawa" is an experiment in the digital data sonification of the Ottawa River’s pasts. This study examines a stretch of river extending from below the Chaudière, Akikodjiwan, or Kana:tso Falls, past the points of confluence with three important waterways – the man-made locks at the Rideau Canal, the tumbling Rideau River falls and the low-lying delta of the Gatineau – to the sandy Kettle and Duck Islands. "Sonifying" the history of the river means to express history to achieve a particular sensual engagement with the past. Sonification is the "visualization" of historical data auditorially, to achieve a particular sensory affect. This project asks readers and listeners to hear uncanny, affective pasts and consider the ways in which storytellers can "de- form" and "re-form" data and sources. The three "songs of the Ottawa" offer a way into the stories of the river’s flows, of commerce and industry extending up and downstream, and of recreation on the water and shores.
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- Wood, Cristina. 2019. "Songs of the Ottawa: A Sonified Environmental History of the Changing Riverscape from the Chaudière Falls to Kettle and Duck Islands, 1880 to 1980", Department of History, Carleton University
- Link to this page:
- https://cuhistory.github.io/grads/items/hist_318.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright the author, all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.