ACOUSMATIC PARK: A PATH TOWARD AURAL AWARENESS
This paper describes a sound installation designed to increase our aural awareness of animal sounds, aiming to reinstate our natural connection to our own habitat. Based on casual, semantic and reduced listening modes, we developed a sound installation that presents creative aural experiences to enhance our connection to the natural soundscapes by recreating lost or forgotten environments, thus contributing to the preservation of sound memory in the contemporary world. This paper explains the concept and implementation of the installation and offers a discussion of the role of listening in our society and strategies to make it a more conscious act.