Soundscape engineering
Introduction
acoustic ecology, also called ecoacoustics or studies of the soundscape, is a discipline that studies the relationship mediated through sound between living beings and their environment.[1].
Acoustic ecology began in the 1960s with R. Murray Schafer and his team made up of members of Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada) as part of the project called World Soundscape Project. The original WSP team consisted of Barry Truax and Hildegard Westerkamp, Bruce Davies and Peter Huse, among others. The first study produced by the WSP was called The Vancouver Soundscape. Interest in this area grew enormously after this pioneering and innovative study and the area of acoustic ecology gained interest from researchers and artists around the world. In 1993, members of the now large and active international acoustic ecological community founded the World Forum of Acoustic Ecology.[2].
Every three years since WFAE's founding in Banff, Canada, in 1993, an international meeting has taken place. Stockholm, Amsterdam, Devon, Peterborough, and Melbourne continued with such meetings. In November 2006, the WFAE meeting was held in Hirosaki, Japan.[3] The last WFAE conference was held in Koli), Finland.
From its roots in the sociology and sound radio art of Schafer and his colleagues, acoustic ecology has been expressed in many different fields. Most have been inspired by Schafer's writings, however in recent years there have been healthy divergences. Among new expanded expressions of acoustic ecology, there has been growing attention to the sound impacts of road and airport construction, expanded networks of "phonograms" exploring the world through sound,[4] the expansion of bioacoustics, that is, the use of sound by animals, to consider the subjectivity and objectivity of animals' responses to human sounds, including the increasing use of acoustic ecology in literature, and the popular effects of human sounds. in animals, and even capturing the most attention with ocean sounds. Another important result for the evolution of acoustic ecology are studies of the composition of soundscapes.
List of composition works
"Dominion" by Barry Truax
"Dominion" takes listeners on an acoustic journey across Canada. The work begins with the firing of a cannon in the harbor of St. John's in Newfoundland and continues east, recording sounds such as the bells of the Peace Tower bell in Ottawa and the O Canada Horn in Vancouver. A 12-piece orchestra, representing the 10 provinces and then the two territories, taking listeners through the work, along with the whistle of a Canadian Pacific Railway train, representing the railway that first connected Canada to more than a century ago. .