What does Cascone mean by “the medium is no longer the message. The tool is the message”? How did the shift from focusing only on sound objects to also paying attention to their background influence music production?
Interesting article about airport noise pollution
Recently, diplomats in Cuba were victims of a “sonic attack” leaving them with a variety of symptoms. Could this be the newest form of terrorism?
1. Given the delineations of soundscape & acoustic ecology, do you think the two terms belong together? 2. WesterKamp writes, “The ear and the microphone are the starting points for the soundscape composer,” do you think ears and microphones should be the only two tools used for soundscape composition or should there be more tools… Read more Linking Soundscape Composition & Acoustic Ecology Questions
Westerkamp mentions in the article, “Today the term soundscape composition does exist, but none really seems to know what is meant by it, myself included… And my sense is that as soon as we try to define it further…Because each soundscape composition emerges out of its own context in place and time, culturally, politically, socially,… Read more Questions about the Westerkamp article_Younghoo Cho
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/climate-change-ocean-noise With warming temperatures, the northern migration of subpolar whales is colliding with native species in the Arctic. Very interesting article concerning the loss of sea ice and loss of sounds as more subarctic creatures migrate north with climate change. Habitats are changing and humans and industry are shifting towards these untapped areas filled with natural… Read more The Sound of Our Oceans
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170918151710.htm A group of scientists led by Professor Peidong Yang at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new electrocatalyst made up of copper spheres that are 7 nanometers in diameter and then covered in carbon paper to create catalyst cubes that can directly convert carbon dioxide into multicarbon… Read more CO2 To Fuel – A1
Krause explains that some “natural soundscapes cannot be replaced, as evidenced by the 25 percent loss of viable North American biophonies collected in [his] library.” How do you think climate change will impact this already substantial decrease? Are there some soundscapes that future generations will not hear? Will the migration of species as a result… Read more Questions for Krause article 9/21/17
I started my sound walk at 8 am. This morning was pretty noisy, well noisy doesn’t seem to be the right word. More like there was a lot of acoustics all happening at once. It was a bit overwhelmingat first, but I realized that I felt overwhelmed because I tend to wear headphones in the morning… Read more SOUNDWALK @ 8am
I took a sound walk across campus across campus during the midmorning. One of the biggest things I noticed was that in the past, I did not notice the natural sounds around me as much as the man-made sounds. In the past, I seemed to notice the trucks and construction equipment much more than the… Read more Soundwalk Across Campus