• “The overwhelmingly multisensory character of perceptual experience should lead to some expectation for a multisensory conceptualisation of place. But by and large, ethnographic and cultural geographic work on senses of place has been dominated by the visualism deeply rooted in the European concept of landscape” (Feld).

• One goal of this website is to present an example of a way in which sonic geographies might be ‘done’ by cultural geographers. In other words, we hope to present a sample methodology for doing sound geographies. Few geographers have worked with sound maps before, and in that way our project is “ground & sound”-breaking. We hope to provide a framework and ideas for those who will follow us in conducting their own forays into the interplays between sound and geography. By this we do not intend to provide a step-by-step guide, but to provide ideas, topics for debate, and to suggest a way of approaching this largely unexplored geographical area.

• “While everyday perception is, for most people, multi-sensual, involving some combination of touch, taste, hearing, smell and sight, geographers have tended to privilege the visual over other senses (Valentine).