지리산 현대시와 사운드스케이프

Abstract

Recently there has been an increasing number of studies of soundscapes or acoustic design in the field of architectural environment. These studies are expanding into various fields like education, literature and the arts. The term ‘soundscape’ was coined by putting together ‘sound’ and ‘scape’. The theory of soundscape connotes ecological, social and cultural values as it breaks away from an elementary viewpoint of acoustics and semantically focuses on a meaningful sound environment. The concept that a sound event is a means to identify sounds was put forth by R. M. Schafer (creator of soundscape). Soundscape provides a chance to study the sound event's form and meaning in a social and cultural context. Also, it gives the opportunity for the diachronic vision to study the changing sound and perception. Thus, it can be utilized as an effective methodology in systematically understanding literary works with certain spaces and places. In this aspect, the study attempted to investigate the forms and significance of soundscape from the “poems of Jiri Mountain” with “Jiri Mountain” as their title or a part of their title. Poems from the 1970’s through the early 2000’s were divided into 3 categories according to their soundscape properties. The study tried to investigate the significance of each of their soundscapes in psychoanalytical and philosophical contexts. As a result, the study was able to confirm that the ‘cries’ of chohon that announces ‘living dead’ represented by ‘specters of .Jiri Mountain’ to the world, ‘calling’ which establishes ‘specters of Mt. Mountain’ as a transformational agent, and ‘sound of anguish’ which brushes the suppressed time of ‘specters of Jiri Mountain’ or the inner-self of the narrator resonated as either keynote sounds or soundmarks during the 1970’s, the early 1980’s, the late 1980’to the mid 1990’s and the mid 1990's to the early 2000’s, respectively. This paper is significant as it provides the groundwork for systematic and diachronic understanding of modern poetry from Jiri Mountain. It also is a lead to investigate the identity of the place of Jiri Mountain through studies of the soundscape of poems about Jiri Mountain.