{"id":1507,"date":"2016-07-22T08:28:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T08:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2016-07-22T09:37:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T09:37:34","slug":"urumchi-soundwalks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"Urumchi Soundwalks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Urumchi Soundwalks<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Conducting a series of soundwalks is a good way to gauge the range and diversity of the different mosques in Urumchi and to discern, <em>en route<\/em>, the \u2018keynotes,\u2019 \u2018signals\u2019 and \u2018soundmarks\u2019 of the surrounding city. Experimenting with phone-based GPS-systems as a means of tracking and plotting the soundwalks provided both astounding detail as a record of a fieldwork exercise but also highlighted first a curious mis-alignment of satellite data about Urumchi and, second, how battery-hungry this type of software can be!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px solid white; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/image\/Urumchi_Soundwalks1.jpg\" width=\"429\" height=\"610\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In the example, red indicates a faster pace, green points to much slower movement. Numbers indicate distance points in kilometres. A series of sonic snapshots from the audio recordings give a flavour of sounds on the streets of Urumchi during the month of Ramadan in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px solid white; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/image\/Urumchi_Soundwalks2.jpg\" width=\"495\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A street sweeper in the mid-day sun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><audio src=\"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/av\/Urumqi_Soundwalks1.mp3\" controls=\"controls\"><\/audio><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">Sheep brought into town on the back of a small truck bleat before slaughter for the iftar meal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><audio src=\"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/av\/Urumqi_Soundwalks2.mp3\" controls=\"controls\"><\/audio><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">A butcher chops up and prepares the now slaughtered mutton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><audio src=\"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/av\/Urumqi_Soundwalks3.mp3\" controls=\"controls\"><\/audio><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">Hit songs blurting into the street from a record shop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><audio src=\"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/av\/Urumqi_Soundwalks4.mp3\" controls=\"controls\"><\/audio><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">A clothes shop blasts naghara-sunay (drum and shawm) music to attract customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><audio src=\"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/av\/Urumqi_Soundwalks5.mp3\" controls=\"controls\"><\/audio><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">The adhan, as broadcast from the Yanghang mosque.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><audio src=\"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/av\/Urumqi_Soundwalks6.mp3\" controls=\"controls\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urumchi Soundwalks Conducting a series of soundwalks is a good way to gauge the range and diversity of the different mosques in Urumchi and to discern, en route, the \u2018keynotes,\u2019 \u2018signals\u2019 and \u2018soundmarks\u2019 of the surrounding city. Experimenting with phone-based&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=1507\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[106,28,138],"tags":[15,191,13,207,17,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}