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