Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An atmosphere or environment created by or with sound: the raucous soundscape of a city street; a play with a haunting soundscape.
Wiktionary
- n. An acoustic environment, a virtual/emotional environment created using sound.
- n. A soundscape composition - an electroacoustic musical composition creating a sound portrait of a sound environment.
Etymologies
- sound + scape (Wiktionary)
- sound1 + (land)scape. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Much like “There Will Be Blood,” a dissonant soundscape is played every time the Joker is menacing somebody.”
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“This soundscape is of Piazza San Marco just as the sun rises, a little before 6 AM.”
“It's an over-emphasis compounded by Dan Jones's soundscape, which is imaginative in conception (a combination of music and natural sounds) but heavy in execution, underscoring points of tension with shivers of sound, and pelting in with unnecessary rain.”
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“I agree that the soundscape was the weakest part of this film.”
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“A soundscape is the acoustic environment around you.”
“Canongate plans a multimedia launch, with an audiobook narrated by Cave and an e-book — featuring a "soundscape" — launching simultaneously.”
“Playing music engages the ability to extract relevant patterns, such as the sound of one's own instrument, harmonies and rhythms, from the 'soundscape'," said Professor Kraus.”
“Playing music engages the ability to extract relevant patterns, such as the sound of one's own instrument, harmonies and rhythms, from the "soundscape",' said Prof Kraus.”
“The term 'soundscape' always somehow feels a bit Mickey Mouse.”
“Grizzly Men [New York] * I won't even get into the other problems this piece has, like way that the noun "soundscape" is used in the same paragraph as the sentence "The members of Grizzly Bear have never worried about seeming lame, which may be why people think they're cool," because then I would just start tearing tufts of my hair out.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘soundscape’.
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Hilary's List
Just a list of words I like
wellspring, mystery, wonderment, intrinsic, artisan, enchantment, magic, transience, incomplete, impermanent, imperfect, resonance and 163 more...
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musicality
words about things I love about music
indie, jamming, busking, street musician, gypsy, folk, noise, baroque-pop, lyricism, freak folk, washboard, orchestral and 17 more...
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them's reading words
things i pick up over the course of my academic reading
puissance, cleped, tintinnabulation, metastasize, dithyramb, coenesthesis, conflate, hegemonic, counter-hegemonic, conventicle, dialectic, mendacity and 14 more...
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Scapes
Landscapes et al. Much of this shamelessly swiped from http://www.wordnik.com/lists/wordscape
landscape, beachscape, cityscape, veduta, cloudscape, hardscape, icescape, inscape, lunarscape, moonscape, nightscape, playscape and 28 more...
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Wordscape
aquascape, beachscape, cityscape, cloudscape, hardscape, icescape, inscape, landscape, lightscape, lunarscape, moodscape, moonscape and 11 more...
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simple & useful3
mystique, lurid, starry-eyed, fluttery, slumberous, listlessness, mumbler, experiential, travesty, reciprocity, immersion, bombarding and 60 more...
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first list of earthache
Anti-topic list
klezmer, pastiche, polaroid, within, relief, fluxus, soundscape, clouds, catastrophe, granular
Tweets
Looking for tweets for soundscape.
bilby *puts big ears to the task of listening, listening* Sep 5, 2008