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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"soundscapes"”.
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Sonora’s Sacred Soundscapes --Sones Sagrados Sonorenses—
… profound hermeneutical insight into sacred soundscapes and oral traditions rooted in spiritual practice. Ultimately, this research reframes sacred soundscapes through an environmental and collaborative lens, mapping a path of academic, spiritual, and cultural resonance across the landscapes …
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Sparse separation of sources in 3D soundscapes
… applicable to extracting sources from within 3D soundscapes is presented. The algorithm is based on constructing a binary mask based on directional information. The validity of filtering using binary masked based on the ω-disjoint assumption is examined for several typical scenarios. Results for …
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AURAL SUBSTANCE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF REGIONAL BURN SOUNDSCAPES
… An Ethnographic Exploration of Regional Burn Soundscapes” analyzes Burning Man’s regional network, expanding on sound artists Stephan Moore and Scott Smallwood’s brief initial study of the national event's sound by way of ethnography and field recording. From June 2016 through February 2017, I …
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Mystical Soundscapes: Performance Guide to Rautavaara’s Etudes, Op. 42
This document examines Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Etudes, Op. 42 (1969) from a performance perspective. Although Rautavaara’s orchestral and choral works have received substantial scholarly and public attention, his solo piano music has received comparatively little performance-based study. As his …
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Urban soundscapes: the effect of auditory stimulation on mood
… the relationship between visual environments and soundscapes and how do they interact to affect mood in urban cityscapes? To what extent do some typical landscape sounds increase negative feelings? To what extent do other typical sounds create calming and positive feelings in the landscape? This …
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Coral reef soundscapes : spatiotemporal variability and links to species assemblages
… acoustic activity that largely comprises marine soundscapes. First, I investigate links between reef fauna and reef-specific acoustic signatures on coral reefs located in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Second, I compare those findings to a more expansive study that I conducted in Maui, Hawaii, in which …
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Coral reef soundscapes: spatiotemporal variability and links to species assemblages
… acoustic activity that largely comprises marine soundscapes. First, I investigate links between reef fauna and reef-specific acoustic signatures on coral reefs located in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Second, I compare those findings to a more expansive study that I conducted in Maui, Hawaii, in which …
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Soundscapes Of The Pillow Book: Creating Music Exploring Pamela Z's Sonic Landscapes
<p>Pamela Z stands as a pioneering force in contemporary music, seamlessly integrating her roles as a composer, performer, and media artist. Renowned for her innovative approach, she masterfully combines her voice with live electronic processing, sampled sounds, and video elements, crafting a …
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The Sound of the Sun: Soundscapes and Intermediality in Texts of Heiner Müller
Texts by the German author Heiner Müller are an inexhaustible creative source for artists. This practice-based thesis investigates this phenomenon by means of experimentations with sound installation art in order to propose explanations why Müller’s texts lend themselves to the creation of …
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Spaces of Reproduction: How Teenagers Co-construct Post Industrial Soundscapes in Smithfield, Dublin
This thesis provides an in-depth argument for the inclusion of sound as formative in the social construction and shaping of urban spaces, and mobile mediation practices within the urban. This thesis: (1) advances theories of sound within sociology; (2) contributes new data on sound in urban …
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Spaces of reproduction : how teenagers co-construct post industrial soundscapes in Smithfield, Dublin
Sounds are specific to space, yet much of the critique of urban space within social theory fails to address the social and cultural significance of sound in the shaping of spatial practices. This thesis provides an in-depth argument for the inclusion of sound as formative in the social construction …
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Hearing Like A City: Sonic Gentrification and the Nighttime Economy of Urban Soundscapes
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Trans-Pacific soundscapes: oral storytelling as a transnational aesthetic in the colonial encounter
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Tuning Into The Planet: Scientists are collecting and archiving soundscapes before they disappear
Soundscapes of the world can reveal the status of an ecosystem to an ecologist, much like how a cardiologist can distinguish abnormal heart murmurs with an electrocardiogram. The effort to use the aural landscape to assess the recovery of fragile ecosystems and directly assist in those recoveries …
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The Role of Backreef Soundscapes and their Spatial Structure for Recruitment of Tropical Marine Larvae
… sponge die-offs have diminished both underwater soundscapes and larval settlement. The absence of pronounced hardbottom-associated sound over such a large area allowed me to experimentally test in situ the response of fish and invertebrate larvae to broadcasted sounds at different distances from …
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Exploring the relaxation potential of nature soundscapes and photography through field recordings and meditation nature walks
This thesis investigates the potential of nature soundscapes, paired with nature photography, to promote relaxation. The research opens with the context of the soundscape and R. Murray Schafer’s notion of acoustic ecology. Schafer’s work from the 1970s onward examines how individuals interact with …
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Soundscapes as Urban Transformation: Introducing a notational language that represents the shifting relationships between sound, space, and movement
Even though we have advanced technology that can reveal the complexity of cities, urban planners typically turn to the physical attributes of the built environment alone to design them. Instead, this research views cities as a system of continuous, temporal changes that determine how people …
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Characterization of Soundscapes in Shallow Water Habitats of the Florida Keys (USA) and Their Influence on the Settlement of Larval Fish and Invertebrates
… change and habitat restoration on underwater soundscapes and larval recruitment. I had four main objectives: (1) characterize the underwater soundscapes of three near-shore, benthic habitats: mangrove islands, seagrass meadows, and hard-bottom (Chapter 2); (2) quantify larval settlement within …
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Soundscapes of Sumatra: an analysis of the susceptibility of vocal fauna to ecological edge effects within a historically disturbed lowland forest, Sumatra, Indonesia.
Globally between 2000 and 2015, 128.4 million hectares of native forest were destroyed through deforestation. Although Indonesia still has one of the highest levels of biodiversity globally, it has seen an increase in deforestation due to increased land-use change. In highly degraded forest areas, …
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INDICES AND ECOINFORMATICS TOOLS FOR THE STUDY OF SOUNDSCAPE DYNAMICS
… and methodological areas of the study of soundscapes. In Chapter 1, I presented the current status of the study of soundscapes as well as an overview of the contributions made in this dissertation to the field. These contributions were framed in the definition of ecological informatics …
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