How are you?
This week's
lecture is “Soundscape”, the 9th topic of “New Age Music”, which is a summary
of the contents of “82. New Age Music: 9. Soundscape” introduced on April 8th,
2017.
A soundscape is the acoustic environment perceived by humans, the term originally coined by Michael Southworth and popularized by R. Murray Schafer.
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| R. Murray Schafer |
The
soundscape is used in a variety of fields, from urban design to wildlife
ecology to computer science. The soundscape refers to the sounds of animals and
natural elements, including weather, and the sounds generated by humans as a
sound or combination of sounds that are formed or generated in the environment,
and also includes the listener's perception to the sounds heard as an
environment.
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| The Blue Marble by the crew of Apollo 17 (1972) |
Electronic music composer Pauline Oliveros defined the term “soundscape” as "All of the waveforms faithfully transmitted to our audio cortex by the ear and its mechanisms”.
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| Pauline Oliveros |
In music,
soundscape compositions are often a form of electronic music or electroacoustic
music, and composers who use soundscapes include Barry Truax, Hildegard Westerkamp,
and Luc Ferrari.
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| Islands, Barry Truax (2001) |
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| Transformations, Hildegard Westerkamp (1996) |
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Interrupteur/Tautologos 3, Luc Ferrari (1997) |
Soundscape composer Petri Kuljuntausta has created soundscape compositions using the sounds of sky dome, aurora and deep sea underwater recordings.
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| Petri Kuljuntausta |
He also created
a work called "Charm of Sound" to perform at the extreme environment
of Saturn's moon Titan, which landed on the ground of Titan in 2005 after
traveling inside the spacecraft Huygens over 7 years and 4 billion kilometers.
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| Saturn's moon Titan |
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| Huygens spaceprobe |
Irv
Teibel's “Environments series (1969–79)” consisted of a 30-minute uninterrupted
environmental soundscapes and synthesized or processed versions of natural
sound.
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| Environments 6, Dawn in the Okefenokee Swamp, Irv Teibel (1974) |
The
soundscape is often mimicking subject in Timbre-centered music, such as Tuvan
throat singing practiced by people in Tuva, Mongolia, and Siberia.
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| The Alash ensemble, a throat singing band from Tuva, Russia |
Thank you.
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