Geos, topos, choros: three models for thinking about place

The Ancient Greeks described place using three methods: geos, topos, and choros. Of these only Ptolemy’s geography, a geometric approach to algorithmic map generation, has survived to any extent. This paper describes the elided concepts, proposing them as integral to establishing a rich conceptual framework for critique of contemporary sonic practice.

São Miguel Island residency

This residency on São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal, ws part of Invisible Places 2017. My sounding of the island produced recordings, poetic texts, and lens-based work, as documented on the process blog Sounding Miguel.

See also the entry on the installation “In that place, the air was very different”.

Before The Listening Begins

“Sacred Spaces” is the latest collaborative project from Cities and Memory. My contribution was created from Melissa Pons’ recording of a church congregation in Sweden, made in the moments before the organ processional. She writes: “I have been fascinated by what happens in a room where the audience is waiting for the music to start”. What exists in the space before listening?