A musicalidade da paisagem: sentidos, representações e bem-estar a partir da paisagem sonora em Chapecó/SC

Abstract

This study focuses on the debate about the elements of the soundscape in Chapecó, Santa Catarina, and aims to outline how sounds and noises interact with subjectivity and the ability to apprehend this landscape. The objective, based on a cultural approach to the landscape category, is to analyze the relationships between the senses, perceptions, and well-being within this landscape. Through the perception and succession of daily experiences, we explore evidence that relates these events to the promotion of well-being or health issues. We also investigate how musicality, as a shaping agent of the landscape, interferes with the dynamics of sound interpretation. The research development is based on a case study, where we conduct phonographic fixations as portraits of the landscape. Concurrently, interviews with the local population were carried out, and in a third stage, the recordings were presented along with a questionnaire to identify if there is an orientation towards certain emotions based on Russell's circumplex test. The foundations of representation theory enable, within a cultural geography approach, a discussion on how subjectivity interferes with this dynamic. With the research considerations, we raise as results elements that add to the discussion of the relevance of sonic landscape elements in people's lives, and how the listening entity relates to space. We cite the debate on the interaction of silence, where we question studies that point to the restriction of sound volume as a resolution to problems pertinent to sonic ambiance; the emulation of the soundscape virtualized by technological tools; and the classification of sounds into cultural entities as an effective tool to advance the debate on soundscape considering subjective and symbolic aspects. Finally, we instigate the debate of the soundscape as a complex formed not only by sounds in space but by the human and social capacity for appropriation and interpretation: soundscapes are within people.