In recent years, sensory ethnography has emerged in response to the way that anthropology has represented its human subjects in media, primarily through film. This new discipline, which has its roots in field recordings, sound art and ethnographic films, tries to develop a way of approaching anthropology’s social concerns, maintaining its methodological imperative to clearly and accurately represent its subjects, while at the same time acknowledging that the audience for such research also makes up part of the meaning that it creates. In short, sensory ethnography is an attempt to resolve the subjective, artistic approaches needed to make effective and engaging work out of empirical data, at the same time as accurately representing its observations.*

*source: https://monoskop.org/Sensory_ethnography

In my understanding sensory ethnography is using methods based on the senses as a main determinant. In can be successfully applied in sound studies, considering the plurality of the resources, tools and different platforms to make, share and listen to the sounds.

An important aspect to mention is the digitalisation of humans lives and culture and development of digital humanities. Humanities are now applying digital techniques to archives and collections that are vastly larger than before. These methods enable ambitious projects to be created with interdisciplinary teams that are brought together to work on complex projects.