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Sights and Sounds of the Alberta Oil Sands

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Merle

As well as helping Andriko Lozowy set up Where is Fort McMurray? on my recent trip to Wood Buffalo, I also went to make some sound recordings of the Oil Sands industrial site. The Athabasca Oil Sands Project is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Cultural Geography, Experimental Geographies, Geographer-artists, Mapping Sound and Sounding Maps, Sound Art | Tagged acoustic ecology, Alberta Oil Sands, Andriko Lozowy, Crane Lake Nature Trail, experimental geography, Fort McKay Industrial Park, geography of noise, geography of sound, Highway 63, industrial noise, Mapping Sound, merle patchett, Photography, R Murray Schafer, Sense of Place, Sound recording a geographic research method, Sound Recordings, soundscapes of canada, Syncrude Cannons, Tailings Ponds, Worker Camps | 15 Comments
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