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
Bakker, Karen J. The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.
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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