Ginger, O.D (2025) Borders: investigating liminality, outsiderness and solitude through an exploration of the sound environments of Andover. PhD thesis, Bath Spa University. doi: 10.17870/bathspa.00017435
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Abstract
This practice-based research project examines the relationships between sound, place, and identity through an investigation of liminality, solitude, and outsiderness in the context of Andover, a market town in southern England. The study is centred around a portfolio of soundwalk-based compositions that explore transitional and peripheral environments where urban and rural soundscapes meet. Using methods grounded in soundwalking, art-walking, and some psychogeographic approaches, the research explores how compositional practices can frame everyday sound environments and how these practices explore the themes of liminality, solitude and outsiderness. The work focuses on liminal geographic and acoustic spaces, where differing environmental conditions meet, and examines how these areas can be represented and interpreted through artistic practice. The compositions are realised through solitary walks and are documented using a range of media, including field recordings, photography, film and text. These documentations are intended to represent the acoustic features and personal experiences of specific locations and link them with the broader themes being investigated. The compositions engage with the sonic characteristics of Andover's environments and outskirts, and investigate how these contribute to influences on memory and a sense of place. The thesis presents the outcomes of these explorations as contributions to the understanding of liminal environments and compositional responses to everyday soundscapes. It proposes that soundwalking and related practices provide useful tools for investigating liminality, solitude and outsiderness, and for articulating nuanced relationships between individual perception and the acoustic environment.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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| Note: | This repository record holds the thesis text. The practice-research component of this thesis comprises four elements, 'Interlude and film series (2020)', 'borders #1 (2018/19)', 'borders #2 (2019-20)', and 'borders #3 (2020-21)' which can be accessed in BathSPAdata via the four DOI links below, under 'Related URLs'. |
| Keywords: | PhD by practice, music, sound, place, identity, liminality, solitude, outsiderness, soundwalk, composition, soundscapes, geographic space, acoustic space, acoustic environment |
| Divisions: | Bath School of Music and Performing Arts |
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| Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2025 10:44 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Dec 2025 14:11 |
| URN: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/17435 |
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