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A soundscape is an acoustic environment or an environment created by sound. Acoustics is a branch of physics and is the study of sound (mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids). ...
Sound is a disturbance of mechanical energy that propagates through matter as a wave. ...
As such, it refers in the first place to the natural acoustic environment, consisting of the sounds of the forces of nature and animals, including humans. This is the domain of acoustic design (R. Murray Schafer). Sound is a disturbance of mechanical energy that propagates through matter as a wave. ...
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Elements
There are different elements of the soundscape such as keynote sounds, sound signals, and soundmarks.
Keynote Sounds: This is a musical term that identifies the key of a piece, not always audible… the key might stray from the original, but it will return. The keynote sounds may not always be heard consciously, but they “outline the character of the people living there” (Schafer). They are created by nature (geography and climate): wind, water, forests, plains, birds, insects, animals. In many urban areas, traffic has become the keynote sound.
Sound Signals: These are foreground sounds, which are listened to consciously. Ex: warning devices, bells, whistles, horns, sirens, etc.
Soundmark: This is derived from the term landmark. A soundmark is a sound which is unique to an area. “Once a Soundmark has been identified, it deserves to be protected, for soundmarks make the acoustic life of a community unique” (Schafer). Raymond Murray Schafer (b. ...
Soundscapes are often combined with the performance of music. For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ...
A soundscape composition is an electroacoustic musical composition creating a sound portrait of a sound environment. Composers who use soundscapes include real-time granular synthesis pioneer Barry Truax and Luc Ferrari, whose Presque rien, numéro 1 (1970) is an early soundscape composition. (Roads 2001, p.312) The terms Electroacoustic or Electroacoustic music have been used to describe several different musical genres or techiniques. ...
Musical composition is a phrase used in a number of contexts, the most commonly used being a piece of music. ...
Granular synthesis is a sound synthesis method that operates on the microsound time scale. ...
Barry Truax(1947-) is a Canadian composer who specializes in real-time implementations of granular synthesis, often of sampled sounds, and soundscapes. ...
Luc Ferrari (February 5, 1929 – August 22, 2005) was a French composer, particularly noted for his tape music. ...
Soundscapes from a computerized acoustic device with a camera may also offer synthetic vision to the blind, as is the goal of the seeingwithsound project. Seeingwithsound is an Internet based project that aims to provide synthetic vision to the totally blind by means of a non-invasive visual prosthesis. ...
See also Field recording is the technique for capturing the audible illustration of an environment, produced outside of a recording studio. ...
Software - fLOW ambient soundscape generator (Apple Macintosh)
- TAPESTREA a framework for sound design and soundscape composition
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Further reading - 1977 The Soundscape - R. Murray Schafer (ISBN 0-89281-455-1)
- 1977 The Tuning of the World - R. Murray Schafer (ISBN 0-8122-1109-X)
- 1977 Five village soundscapes (Music of the environment series) - A.R.C. Publications (ISBN 0-88985-005-4)
- 1978 Handbook for Acoustic Ecology - Barry Truax (ISBN 0-88985-011-9)
- 1985 Acoustic Communication : Second Edition - Barry Truax & World Soundscape Project (ISBN 1-56750-537-6
- 2002 Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World - Bernard L. Krause (ISBN 0-89997-296-9) - book & CD
- 2004 The Auditory Culture Reader (Sensory Formations) - Michael Bull (ISBN 1-85973-618-1)
Raymond Murray Schafer (b. ...
Barry Truax(1947-) is a Canadian composer who specializes in real-time implementations of granular synthesis, often of sampled sounds, and soundscapes. ...
References - Roads, Curtis (2001). Microsound. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-18215-7.
External links The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. ...
Ideas is a long running high-brow radio documentary show on CBC Radio One. ...
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