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Reconsidering the Meanings of "-Scape" in Soundscape

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DOI: 10.23977/artpl.2024.050213 | Downloads: 12 | Views: 157

Author(s)

Ka Hou Chan 1

Affiliation(s)

1 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Innovation and Design, City University of Macau, Avenida Padre Tomás Pereira, Taipa, Macau SAR, China

Corresponding Author

Ka Hou Chan

ABSTRACT

This paper serves as an attempt to delve into and to manifest a discourse that invite readers to gaze through ideas and writings by Murray Schafer (The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World in 1977), Francisco López (two essays written in between 1997 and 1998), as well as a more recent article by Garth Paine (Acoustic Ecology 2.0 in 2017). Both the similarities and differences found among all the viewpoints and arguments would ultimately form a more comprehensive understanding of musical concepts and ideas that were aroused and investigated: soundscape, acoustic ecology, field recordings, acoustic environment, immersive environment, keynote sounds, sound signal, soundmark, just to name a few terms that will be approached in this paper. In addition, the proposed discussion will eventually enable us to rediscover the sounding world that its signification inseparably connects to other dimensional discussion on absolute vs. program music, the role of listener as composer-performer, live performance vs. recordings, as well as sound environment vs. well-beings of humans.

KEYWORDS

Soundscape; Francisco López; Murray R. Schafer; Garth Paine

CITE THIS PAPER

Ka Hou Chan, Reconsidering the Meanings of "-Scape" in Soundscape. Art and Performance Letters (2024) Vol. 5: 86-91. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/artpl.2024.050213.

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