Linda O Keeffe

Linda O Keeffe
Stony Brook University | Stony Brook · Department of Art

PhD

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Introduction
O Keeffe is Professor of Art at Stony Brook University, Dept. of Art. She is founder of the Women in Sound Women on Sound organisation and member of the non Random Artist Collective.
Additional affiliations
January 2019 - October 2022
Edinburgh College of Art
Position
  • Senior Lecturer
Description
  • https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-linda-o-keeffe
August 2014 - January 2019
Lancaster University
Position
  • Lecturer
August 2014 - January 2019
Lancaster University
Position
  • Lecturer
Description
  • Lecturer in Sound art and Sound Design to Undergraduates, module development of all sound courses. Course: Introduction to Sound in the Arts, Sound as Practice, Sound Design for Theatre. Lecturer in MA program, Arts Management.

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Publications (20)
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This paper explores the place for sound within social theory, more specifically, how sound as a subject can be interpreted methodologically. The paper examines the various methods implemented within a Ph.D. research project. The research adopted a participatory approach, examining the missing voices in the post design of place. In this way, the res...
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This article explores the relationship between teenagers, mobile media, and public spaces in the city. We use a range of qualitative methods, including interviews, sound walks, sound maps, and photography, to explore how teenagers use mobile media to respond to the visual and sonic landscape of a public space in Dublin, Ireland. This space was a “n...
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This chapter explores memories of sound from a former industrial and market site in Dublin city. It examines the non-visual ‘losses’ experienced by a group of older people (5 adults aged from 60 to 70 years (2 women and 3 men)) who grew up in and around the Smithfield area of Dublin city from the 1950s to the 1970s. Their descriptions of the space...
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In order to design a computer game soundscape that allows a game player to feel immersed in their virtual world, we must understand how we navigate and understand the real world soundscape. In this chapter I will explore how sound, particularly in urban spaces, is increasingly categorised as noise, ignoring both the social significance of any sound...
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Sounds are specific to space, yet much of the critique of urban space within social theory fails to address the social and cultural significance of sound in the shaping of spatial practices. This thesis provides an in-depth argument for the inclusion of sound as formative in the social construction and shaping of urban spaces, and mobile mediation...
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This chapter is focused on the development of a methodology called Listening as Practice. O Keeffe discusses the development of this method and insights drawn from the field. The research draws on three years of listening within several unique soundscapes with very different natural landscapes: the southern region of Iceland and the northeast regio...
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Somente para a versão final, caso o trabalho seja aprovado; a submissão não deve conter a identificação ou instituição dos autores] Abstract: This paper proposes the use of soundwalking as a feminist methodology within the sonic arts and music technology. The paper will outline potential methods within this methodology including deep listening, sou...
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The concept of sounds associated with a social class is not new, Emily Thompson and Hillel Schwartz both present historical evidence of the segregation of communities because of the soundscapes they produced. From ancient Greece where noise was often linked with production, madness, and poverty, and was often used as a method for the segregation an...
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This artwork responds to the ideas raised during a time of research and recording in 2015, it explores the way in which humans adapt to technological soundscapes but perhaps ignore how other creatures respond to new sounds in their environment. Sound and noise are subjective, they are experienced different depending on culture, however, there is li...
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The sounds of modernity are increasingly moving into natural habitats. With an influx of new technologies designed to utilise and extract material from nature, the natural soundscape is becoming masked by the mechanical and technological. This article addresses an experience of listening and recording which took place in the summer of 2015, within...
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This chapter examines an artist residency at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre in Ireland which culminated in the construction of a solo exhibition in 2014. The work was an attempt to represent artistically the soundscape memories of a collection of five older adults who had lived in or near the Smithfield area of Dublin from the 1940s, and sonic data c...
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The sounds of modernity are increasingly moving into natural habitats. With an influx of technologies designed to utilise and extract material from nature, the natural soundscape is becoming masked by the mechanical and technological. This article addresses an experience of listening and recording which took place in the summer of 2015, within two...
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In 2014, the Irish Research Council funded a project that looked to increase the access of older people to creative opportunities while at the same time generating interest in research examining the social implications of sound, music, and performance produced by older people. The project ran over a 9-month period and included a two-week workshop w...
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Since 2010, as part of my PhD research, I have conducted over two dozen sound walks through the Smithfield Square and its environs, in Dublin’s North Inner city; with teenagers, by myself and through organising deep listening group walks as part of World Listening Day. These walks were designed to encourage the participating walkers to listen inten...
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Pinch and Bijsterveld's edited publication is a significant book contributing to the discussion on sound within science, technology and society studies (STS). The contribution that this edited book makes lies in its focus on sound: sound as a material, product, object, as well as a social concept. The book examines such topics as listening as a pra...
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This paper explores the voice of teenagers in the experience of sound within the urban landscape. It focuses on the methodological approach adopted by the researcher in examining the phenomenological experience of sound. The methods used in this project were influenced by previous research within the arts, music and acoustic ecology, as well as tra...
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In an increasingly obtrusive auditory world we continuously investigate new filtering technologies. In doing so do we compound the separation between the natural world and our synthetically created aural environments? Game environments are a space where this separation could be narrowed (sonically) to allow for a more real world experience in a vir...

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