MULTIPLE PERCEPTIONS OF THE EVERYDAY UNFOLDED:
THE CASE STUDY OF SUNNYSIDE

Matilde Meireles (2021)

Multiple Perceptions of the Everyday Unfolded: The Case Study of Sunnyside is a journal article by Dr Matilde Meireles published on Journal of Sonic Studies 22 Sound at Home 2: City, Home, Body - Sonic Relations and Voice. 

Abstract
This article introduces the project Sunnyside, an album and composition created using extended recording techniques inside the domestic space of my home during the initial Covid-19 lockdown in Belfast in 2020. While there was widespread public discourse around the ways in which public and outdoor spaces were changing during the pandemic, there was relatively little discussion concerning the changes occurring in indoor and domestic spaces. Sunnyside was an attempt to sense, analyze, and represent those changes and examine what they might mean. The following discussion draws on ideas of critical phonography, systems theory, situated knowledge, and interconnectivity to illustrate the project’s refusal of the physical boundaries of the home under lockdown. This critical reflection on everyday routines underscores the project’s relationship with memory, place, and the sonic documentation of everyday personal auditory experiences while opening up a discussion about social networks, both immediate and distributed.

The article is available to read here.