{"id":339,"date":"2022-09-26T15:58:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T19:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/SustainabilitySuppers\/?p=339"},"modified":"2022-12-02T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T20:08:10","slug":"saving-the-sounds-of-south-countys-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/sustainabilitysuppers\/saving-the-sounds-of-south-countys-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Isobel McCullough is saving the sounds of South County\u2019s beaches."},"content":{"rendered":"
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For her undergraduate honors thesis, Isobel McCullough decided she would record the sonic profiles of seven southern Rhode Island beaches. The result, South County Soundscapes: Rhode Island\u2019s Vanishing Coastline<\/a>, is an artistic investigation inspired by science, McCullough says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAcoustic ecology is a discipline that investigates the relationship between humans and their environments, and in this case the investigation is centered around the relationship of our coastal communities to nature as well as climate change and industrialization.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cThe purpose of my project was to create unique soundscapes that depict the sonic environments of coastal communities in Rhode Island\u2019s South County. This is an area of coastline that has been drastically impacted by climate change and will be inevitably transformed due to coastal erosion over the next 50-to-100 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCapitalism has a sound,\u201d McCullough notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCullough recorded the soundscapes of beaches in four coastal towns: Narragansett (Kelly Beach, Narragansett Town Beach, Rose Nulman Park, and Salty Brine State Beach); East Beach, Charlestown; East Matunuck State Beach, South Kingstown; and Misquamicut State Beach, Westerly. Each soundscape has an accompanying essay and list of sounds recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n