Soundscapes

A soundscape is a sound or combination of sounds that forms or arises from an environment. The idea of soundscape refers to both the natural acoustic environment, consisiting of natural sounds, including animal vocalisation and, for instance, the sounds of weather and other natural elements.

Also environmental sounds, created by humans, through musical composition, sound design and other ordinary human activivites, including conservation work and sounds of mechnical origin resulting from industrial techologies.

The term soundscape can also refer to an audio recording or performance of sounds that create the sensation of experiencing particular environment, or compositions of an acoustic envionment either exclusively or in conjunction with musical performance.