Lexicon from the "Mics in the ears" experimental procedure Lexique issu du dispositif expérimental « Des micros dans les oreilles »

« Mics in the Ears » binaural experiment in Cairo (Egypt): Vincent Battesti & Nicolas Puig, social anthropologists, asked inhabitants of Cairo megapolis in Egypt to record the surrounding urban sounds during one of their daily journeys (without the researcher), equipped with binaural microphones and GPS device. Participants have recorded in different Cairo neighbourhoods, and are themselves from different generations, social and economic backgrounds, and different genders. We obtained accounts of the soundwalks in which participants describe and comment on the sounds heard while relistening to their recorded walk. This material comprises many pages of transcriptions in Arabic from which we have extracted elements related to the verbalization of their sound experience. We identified 600 entries divided into five classes: “nouns,” “sound sources,” “qualificatives/descriptives,” “actions/ verbs,” and “localizations of the sound event.” Together they form the lexicon of what can be called the “natural language of sounds” in Cairo. See https://vbat.org/article831

《“耳间麦克风”（Mics in the Ears）》开罗（埃及）双耳实验：社会人类学家文森特·巴泰斯蒂（Vincent Battesti）与尼古拉·普伊格（Nicolas Puig）邀请埃及开罗大都市的居民，在无需研究人员陪同的日常出行过程中，佩戴双耳麦克风（binaural microphones）与GPS设备，录制周边城市声响。参与者的录制场景覆盖开罗各街区，且自身来自不同世代、社会经济背景与性别群体。参与者会在重听自己录制的出行音频时，对所听到的声音进行描述与评论，由此形成整套声途记录素材。该素材包含大量阿拉伯语转录文本，我们从中提取了与参与者声音体验言语表达相关的内容。最终共得到600条条目，划分为五个类别："名词"、"声源"、"修饰/描述语"、"动作/动词"以及"声音事件定位"。这些内容共同构成了可被称为开罗"声音自然语言"的词汇库。详见https://vbat.org/article831