A Critical Reflection on Sonic Maps and the Search for an Audiovisual Cartography Model

Bicer N. B., Aral E. A.

Cartographic Journal, 2025 (SSCI, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Basım Tarihi: 2025
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/00087041.2025.2471194
  • Dergi Adı: Cartographic Journal
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Periodicals Index Online, Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), Geobase, MLA - Modern Language Association Database
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: audiovisual cartography, cartographic silence, Critical cartography, soundscape
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Sound is a spatiotemporal formation and the soundscape is a context-dependent perceptual phenomenon for the interrelationship between sound and space. Conventional maps tend towards a cartographic silence regarding their sonic spatiotemporality. Although critical cartography investigates different aspects of space, its relation to soundmapping is debatable. The growing interest in audiovisual cartography, however, has led to various approaches to associating sound and image in different fields such as cinema, soundscapes, human geography, and urbanism. This paper focuses on soundscape mapping and critically reflects on the limitations of existing strategies. Its main objective is to present an audiovisual cartography framework to promote broader conceptualizations and comprehensive applications of soundscape mapping. This paper defines the unique characteristics of sound phenomena that ground sonic ways of thinking in an audiovisual mapping model, and concludes with a critique of critical cartography to interrogate why it fails to meet the new insights arising from audiovisual integration.