In his TED talk, “The voice of the natural world,” Bernie Krause explains that the discipline of “soundscape ecology” focuses on the broad spectrum of acoustical energy across a variety of temporal and spatial scales in order to see how biological and non-biological sounds interact and influence each other. Krause describes these complex arrangements of sounds that make up the soundscape with the following terms: the “geophony” to describe non-biological sources of sound such as waves in the ocean; “the biophony” to describe all the sounds that are produced by organisms in a given habitat at one time and in one location; and “the anthrophony” to describe sounds generated by humans as well as those made by human-built technology like cars.
