Soundscape

shuffle a little trying to get out of bed. They walk out their room and open the door to another room, you hear a little bit of shuffling as though the kid is shaking their sibling awake. The kids rush downstairs and start moving around the presents they find under the tree. You hear the parents begin to wake up and move into the kitchen, where they begin to make coffee. In the background, you can hear the sounds of the kids moving things around and laughing. After the parents have finished making their coffee, you hear them sit down. Then the sounds of packages being moved around, wrapping paper being torn, children laughing and their sounds of shock as they open present after present. This is the idea of a perfect Christmas. The soundscape uses only the sounds of Christmas to communicate what…

Music is the primary sound that makes up the soundscape of my bedroom. The only time music is not being played inside my room is when I am sleeping. Only during this time is when the other sounds that are a part of the soundscape are able to be heard clearly. I am unable to stand silence, it causes me to become anxious, so I always feel like I must fill the silence with music. When I walk to class I listen to music, when I wait for class I watch television shows, and when I work on art I always…

Introduction When visualizing the Toronto soundscape, it is inevitable to picture it without considering the plethora of accents and languages of people from culturally dominated areas. I had the chance to attend a music and dance performance reflective of the diversity of the world’s traditions but also reflective of Toronto’s multiculturalism. The event took place at the Lula Lounge on March 5th, 2016, where I saw the band ‘Salsotika’ perform classic 80s and 90s salsa. In relation to the…

So far, I have listened to all the entries of the historical recordings of The Vancouver Soundscape. Track one is a recording of ocean sounds. The listening process has been an enjoyable experience to me, for I have never ever listened into the ocean sounds before. I have heard four types of ocean in track one. When I click to start, I hear sea-water lapping against the sea shore gently. The ocean sings a “ sha-la-la-la ” and there is no wind. All I can hear is the patting of water, clear and…

is about communication, listening and understanding the world around us. Sound is one of the most important aspects of communication, without sound it is difficult to listen and communicate. In Listening to Wild Soundscapes Bernie Krause argues “It's the world's first theatrical, acoustic manifestation that among other things kind of provides us with instant feedback as to how we're treating the natural world.” What a powerful concept that I feel everyone should understand and feed off of, I…

Surround sound is a system of stereophonic sound involving three or more speakers surrounding the listener to create a more realistic effect. What is surround sound? surround sound can be translated as a atmospheric sound manipulation. Manipulation of the mind is caused by the placement of speakers to give the allusion to the listener to feel like they are in the 1st person prospective. Surround sound is a technique for enriching the Sound Reproduction quality of an audio source with three or…

Response Paper 1 The Ethical Soundscape (and Intro) by Charles Hirschkind In the segment of the reader, The Ethical Soundscape by Charles Hirschkind; Hirschkind proposed thesis argues “The contribution of this aural media to shaping the contemporary moral and political landscape of the Middle East lies not simply in its capacity to disseminate ideas or instill religious ideologies but in its effect on the human sensorium, on the affects, sensibilities, and perceptual habits of its vast…

R. Murray Schafer asks us to stop neglecting the negative effects of noise pollution and unplug our technological devices. Schafer desires to have a change in the world when it comes to the pollution of certain sounds and noises. He acknowledges that there is a shift in the way music, silence and noise are now perceived. He asks “is the soundscape of the world an intermediate composition over which we have control or are we its composers and performers responsible for giving it form and beauty?…

Westerkamp attempts to explore the soundscape of the park and discover how sound harmonize with the visual impression and importance of surrounding sound. This soundwalk has seven spot of listening location: 1.Entrance, 2.Kinfe-Edge, 3.Lookout, 4.Conservatory, 5.Sunken Garden, 6.Creek and 7.Quarry.Westerkamp provide instruction like”Listen to your footsteps and experiment with your own voice” ”Sit down and let the sounds of the flowing water soothe you” etc, to brainstorm the idea of soundwalk,…

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…