Paper Short Abstract:

This paper tells of a sound project involving schoolchildren recording sounds of their island

Paper Abstract:

The island of Apiao, with around 600 inhabitants, is a small island belonging to the Chiloé archipelago, Chile. Given its isolated location from both the region and the country, this town presents a series of cultural and environmental peculiarities. One of these aspects is its sound. The presence of the coast, the wind, the rain, the animals, the silence and the vastness of the landscape make Apiao a place with great, powerful sounds.

This article addresses, as a methodological case, the development of a collective soundscape recently carried out with schoolchildren and adolescents from Apiao. Through workshops that involved conscious listening exercises, use of recording equipment, collective recording in different areas of the island and the subsequent editing of the recorded sound material, a polyphonic documentary landscape of the island was formed. Between voices, children's plays, birds, sea and wind, the power and particularity of a landscape appears from the sensibility of the children that inhabit it. The article works in a multimodal way, reflecting on the potential of sound in research-creation projects from a collaborative perspective - challenging oculocentric and adult-centric notions -, and at the same time, presents the results of this experience in audio format.