Reports of experiences in the belenense’s soundscape

artistic immersion at Ver-o-Peso Market, in Belém do Pará

Abstract

The soundscape studies have been widely discussed in different fields of knowledge, where multiple approaches are emphasized, feeding the thinking of researchers and artists who consider the importance of landscape for their creative processes. The soundscape of Belém do Pará presents numerous singularities - these that were a reason for fruition throughout the production of this research data, which includes acoustic and photographic catalogs, among other narratives. In this study, firstly, we present the results of collective soundwalking practices as part of the Projeto Mosaico, an Extension Project of the Universidade Federal do Pará. Secondly, the well-known soundwalking aesthetic practice approaches to the readings of Jorge Larrosa’s and Joanalira Magalhães e Paula Ribeiro writtings, about experience and cultural artefact, respectively, pointing out how this aesthetic practice was important for the perception of the multiple acoustic realities present in the Ver-o-Peso Market, located in the Historic Center of Belém of Pará. Beforehand, we are considering that this practice was an alternative of musical enjoyment in the face of conservative music teaching models and/or historically established in the way of listening and making music, displacing bodies from closed spaces, which began to appreciate unique musical experiences from improvisation, touching, listening and other senses that have moved in space. The experience introduced here sensitizes the listener against the acoustic color available locally, uniting artist-researchers as a single body, in line with their surroundings that continually reveal sounds, musical practices and reports of experiences that are so particular to Belém of Pará.