An anthropogenic cacophony Sound travels faster and farther in water than air. Over evolutionary time, many marine organisms have come to rely on sound production, transmission, reception for key aspects of their lives. These important behaviors are threatened by an increasing the environment as human-produced sounds become louder more prevalent. Duarte et al. review importance biologically pro...

The proliferation of mobile communication and digital media has altered our presence in the urban environment and the way we perceive the city. The topology of our sensory domain has been rendered steadily more complexly connected, recapitulating deployments of wearable and ubiquitous technologies, as today we are frequently in one location but engaged (using one or more senses) with people and...

Moving out of doors with digital tools and electronic music and creating musically rich experiences is made possible by the increased availability of ever smaller and more powerful mobile computers. Composing music for and in a landscape instead of for a closed architectural space offers new perspectives but also raises questions about interaction and composition of electronic music. The work w...

Giovanni De Zorzi traces the historical and aesthetical background of ‘soundscape’, from sound/noise opposition in physics to reconsideration ‘noise’ by avant-gardes twentieth century arriving conceptions Murray Schafer Steven Feld, which gave birth many nowadays disciplines. After this, Alessio Calandra deals with possible influence soundscape Disneyland Park, an amusement park Paris: he begin...

The paper – rapidly retracing some fundamental stages in the history of sound studies questions relationship between soundscape and music language proposes a reflection on resulting ontologies sound. In traditional conception studies, musical should contribute to re-orchestration environmental promote awareness active listening extra-musical sounds. However, every composition or performance tha...

This paper will focus on a creative process that took place in Derry Northern Ireland in June of 2014 and culminated with the production of a CD of sound art works. The project engaged a group of older adults, who were members of the University for the Third Age (U3A) in Derry, to explore sound art through mobile technologies. During a two-week workshop period these participants recorded variou...