Installations and Happenings

This note is about the concept of the soundscape and its meaning for living communities.

Cf.

• Interspecies
• probes.examples.interspecies-communication (Private)
• Biosemiotics
• Cognition
• acoustic ecology
• bioacoustics
• psychoacoustics
• environmental acoustics
• noise measurement
• electroacoustics
• soundscape studies

Bernie Krause Bernie Krause on saving the music of the wild

Krause, Bernard L. and Profile Books. The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places. London: Profile Books, 2013.

Krause, Bernie. Voices of the Wild: Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.

Introduction the concept of soundscape:

Schafer, R. Murray. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. 1977. Reprint, Rochester: Destiny Books, 1994.

On soundscape ecology. The consequence for design: do not use human-made, standardised sound or allow noise and sound pollution.

Farina, Almo. Soundscape Ecology: Principles, Patterns, Methods and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer, 2014.

Beever, Jonathan. ‘Sonic Liminality: Soundscapes, Semiotics, and Ecologies of Meaning’. Biosemiotics 13, no. 1 (2020): 77–88. https://doi.org/10/ggxrdk.

Taylor, Hollis. Is Birdsong Music?: Outback Encounters with an Australian Songbird. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017.

Steingo, Gavin. Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music beyond Humanity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Examples and Data

'Galaxy of sounds' to be recorded for acoustic observatory of Australian wildlife

Acoustic restoration of ecosystems — how the sound of love helps animals return to old habitats - Future Tense podcast

References

Droumeva, Milena, and Randolph Jordan, eds. Sound, Media, Ecology. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Wright, Mark Peter. “The Noisy-Nonself: Towards a Monstrous Practice of More-Than-Human Listening.” Evental Aesthetics 6, no. 1 (2017): 24–42.