Post your autoethnography to your blog and write a paragraph or two about what you have discovered in the process – about yourself as a practitioner/researcher, about the space you have chosen to document, about listening, etc.

Ethnography – The Canteen

The murmuring of the attendants to a restaurant or bar is very characteristic, it features a tone of joy which is very distinctive, and this fun environment is rapidly filtered by our brains in the form of happiness and excitement; alternatively the smell to food is the right candidate to follow this sensation, bringing the feeling of joy from our nose to brain and down to the stomach passing through the mouth and throat as the natural pleasure of an intake of food and drink will follow up next.

Another sound that came to my ears was the cutlery clinking with the plates and other similar sounds coming from the kitchen; these sounds complete the murmurs to create that special combination which is composing one of the most recognisable sonic environments and ambiances of our lives as modern humans, the sound of a restaurant. Personally this is a sensation which evokes me a pleasant feeling, it’s worth to mention that this could be also seasoned with music where we could find a whole new range of combinations and situations to talk about.