The sound of ruins: Sigur Ros' Heima and the post-rock elegy for place

• Main Author: Fletcher, Lawson
• Other Authors: Swinburne University of Technology
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Trinity College Dublin 2012
• Subjects: Post Rock; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/313483; http://www.interferencejournal.com/articles/a-sonic-geography/the-sound-of-ruins

Amongst the ways in which it maps out the geographical imagination of place, music plays a unique role in the formation and reformation of spatial memories, connecting to and reviving alternative times and places latent within a particular environment. Post-rock epitomises this: understood as a kind...