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Soundscape

About: Soundscape is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2694 publications have been published within this topic receiving 36241 citations. The topic is also known as: ambiente acústico & escape de sonido.


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01 Oct 1993
TL;DR: Schafer advocates soundscape study, or interdisciplinary research on the sonic environment that combines science, society, and the arts as mentioned in this paper, and gives an historical overview of the changing soundscape, from a graceful state of nature to a heavily industrialised society filled with noise pollution.
Abstract: Schafer advocates soundscape study, or interdisciplinary research on the sonic environment that combines science, society, and the arts. Extensively quoting literature, he gives an historical overview of the changing soundscape, from a graceful state of nature to a heavily industrialised society filled with noise pollution. Explaining the notation and classification of sound, he gives exercises to develop sensitivity towards the acoustic ecology. Glossary. Bibl. 17 p. Index 5 p.

1,396 citations

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10 Oct 2006
TL;DR: In this article, Islam, Nationalism, and Audition, The Ethics of Listening, Cassettes and Counterpublics, Rhetorics of the Da iya, and the Acoustics of Death.
Abstract: AcknowledgmentsNote on Transcription1. Introduction2. Islam, Nationalism, and Audition3. The Ethics of Listening4. Cassettes and Counterpublics5. Rhetorics of the Da iya6. The Acoustics of Death7. EpilogueNotesWorks CitedIndex

919 citations

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TL;DR: This article presents a unifying theory of soundscape ecology, which brings the idea of the soundscape—the collection of sounds that emanate from landscapes—into a research and application focus and proposes a research agenda that includes six areas.
Abstract: This article presents a unifying theory of soundscape ecology, which brings the idea of the soundscape—the collection of sounds that emanate from landscapes—into a research and application focus. Our conceptual framework of soundscape ecology is based on the causes and consequences of biological (biophony), geophysical (geophony), and human-produced (anthrophony) sounds. We argue that soundscape ecology shares many parallels with landscape ecology, and it should therefore be considered a branch of this maturing field. We propose a research agenda for soundscape ecology that includes six areas: (1) measurement and analytical challenges, (2) spatial-temporal dynamics, (3) soundscape linkage to environmental covariates, (4) human impacts on the soundscape, (5) soundscape impacts on humans, and (6) soundscape impacts on ecosystems. We present case studies that illustrate different approaches to understanding soundscape dynamics. Because soundscapes are our auditory link to nature, we also argue for their prot...

793 citations

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TL;DR: Soundscape ecology as discussed by the authors is a new area of research focusing on how sound from various sources (biological, geophysical and anthropogenic) can be used to understand coupled natural-human dynamics across different spatial and temporal scales.
Abstract: We summarize the foundational elements of a new area of research we call soundscape ecology. The study of sound in landscapes is based on an understanding of how sound, from various sources—biological, geophysical and anthropogenic—can be used to understand coupled natural-human dynamics across different spatial and temporal scales. Useful terms, such as soundscapes, biophony, geophony and anthrophony, are introduced and defined. The intellectual foundations of soundscape ecology are described—those of spatial ecology, bioacoustics, urban environmental acoustics and acoustic ecology. We argue that soundscape ecology differs from the humanities driven focus of acoustic ecology although soundscape ecology will likely need its rich vocabulary and conservation ethic. An integrative framework is presented that describes how climate, land transformations, biodiversity patterns, timing of life history events and human activities create the dynamic soundscape. We also summarize what is currently known about factors that control temporal soundscape dynamics and variability across spatial gradients. Several different phonic interactions (e.g., how anthrophony affects biophony) are also described. Soundscape ecology tools that will be needed are also discussed along with the several ways in which soundscapes need to be managed. This summary article helps frame the other more application-oriented papers that appear in this special issue.

467 citations

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TL;DR: The proposed principal components model provides a framework for future soundscape research and practice and suggests which basic dimensions are necessary to measure, how to measure them by a defined set of attribute scales, and how to promote high-quality soundscapes.
Abstract: There is a need for a model that identifies underlying dimensions of soundscape perception, and which may guide measurement and improvement of soundscape quality With the purpose to develop such a model, a listening experiment was conducted One hundred listeners measured 50 excerpts of binaural recordings of urban outdoor soundscapes on 116 attribute scales The average attribute scale values were subjected to principal components analysis, resulting in three components: Pleasantness, eventfulness, and familiarity, explaining 50, 18 and 6% of the total variance, respectively The principal-component scores were correlated with physical soundscape properties, including categories of dominant sounds and acoustic variables Soundscape excerpts dominated by technological sounds were found to be unpleasant, whereas soundscape excerpts dominated by natural sounds were pleasant, and soundscape excerpts dominated by human sounds were eventful These relationships remained after controlling for the overall soundscape loudness (Zwicker's N(10)), which shows that 'informational' properties are substantial contributors to the perception of soundscape The proposed principal components model provides a framework for future soundscape research and practice In particular, it suggests which basic dimensions are necessary to measure, how to measure them by a defined set of attribute scales, and how to promote high-quality soundscapes

454 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023327
2022580
2021209
2020185
2019188
2018210