Case Study presentation given at Academic & Special Libraries Conference, 29 March 2019. The Sonic Histories of Cork City (SHOCC) Project is an interdisciplinary research project between members of UCC Library's Special Collections and UCC's Department of Music. The SHOCC Project explores relationships between sound, space and history and investigates what locations in Cork City might have sounded like in various moments in the city's past. The project gives UCC's MA students and members of the public opportunities to both engage creatively with the city's history and to contribute to Cork's present sounds. Such engagement aims to teach people about Cork City's fascinating past, but also to encourage people to think critically about present and future spaces. The SHOCC Project fully underpins UCC's Connected Curriculum, enhancing the relationship between teaching and research. This is possible by considering the library as a fourth space: the library actively engaging in projects through collaborative partners of faculty, students and library brings the university into its wider constituency, contributing to society in general.

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Sound Out! Connecting the Library and
the City Through Space, Time & Sound
A&SL Annual Conference | 29 March 2019
Elaine Harrington | Special Collections Librarian
John Hough | Senior Technical Officer
“Corcke,” Civitates orbus terrarum,
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A City’s Sonic Fingerprint
Wilkie's Cork City Directory, 1872.

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Sonic Histories of Cork City Project
https://shoccproject.wordpress.com/

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SHOCC Project & MU6031:
UCC’s Connected Curriculum
https://www.ucc.ie/en/registrar/theconnecteduniversity/academicstrategy/curriculum

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SHOCC Project and the Sources

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Cork - 1902

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Sound Design
● Ambiences or Backgrounds
● Dialog
● SFX - specifics
● Foley - footsteps, movements,
● Music

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Field Recording and Editing Workshops
Provide students with skills to create soundscapes
● Use of microphones and recording devices
● Get students listening to the environment
● Visit locations around the city
● Creative sound editing

9. @SHOCCProjectUCCAndre Besnard: A Tale of Old Cork. Cork: J Mahony, 1889.

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Beyond the Walls:
Let’s Go for a Sound Walk

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Sound
Catcher
https://shoccproject.wordpress.com/mapping-soundcatcher/

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Sound Research Interacting With Daily Life

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Slide Credit: Aquatint ‘Cork from the Mardyke Walk’ in Carr’s The Stranger in Ireland (1805). https://shoccproject.wordpress.com/ mapping-soundcatcher/
A SHOCC Project for All Seasons

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SHOCC Project / UCC Sound Sound Day
at Cork Sound Fair

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VR Lab – UCC Library
https://www.thejournal.ie/cork-skyscraper-3842899-
Feb2018/

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Museum of the City

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Contact
Elaine Harrington
Special Collections Librarian
UCC Library
University College Cork
Cork
e.harrington@ucc.ie
John Hough
Senior Technical Officer
School of Music & Theatre
University College Cork
Cork
j.hough@ucc.ie
Sonic Histories of Cork City (SHOCC) Project
https://shoccproject.wordpress.com/