Soundscape Studies

My own interest in soundscape studies began during my PhD in Electroacoustic Composition when I started using field recordings as material for my compositions. I became very interested in environmental sound and acoustic ecology. Here are some resources that I have gathered and bookmarked over the years that have really helped me to develop my artistic practice.

Soundscape Studies links and resources

Acoustic Ecology/Soundscape Studies/Bioacoustics

Reading:
Books:
Blesser, B and Salter, L. R. 2009. Spaces Speak, are you Listening? Experiencing Aural Architecture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Krause, B. The Great Animal Orchestra, London: Profile Books, USA: Little, Brown and Company, 2012
Schafer, R.M.,  The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World, Knopf 1994
Truax, B. 1999. Handbook for Acoustic Ecology: CD-ROM Edition. Cambridge Street Publishing.
Truax, B. 2001. Acoustic Communication. 2nd ed. Westport, CT: Ablex Publishing. 

Articles/Journals:
  • Drever, J. L. 2002. Soundscape Composition: The Convergence of Ethnography and Acousmatic Music. Organised Sound 7(1): 21–7.
  • ​Feld, S. and Brenneis, D. 2004. Doing Anthropology in Sound. American Ethnologist 31(4): 461–74.
  • Krause, Bernie, Articles available to download at: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bernie_Krause/publications
  • Martin, B, “Soundscape Composition: Enhancing our understanding of changing soundscapes”, Organised Sound 23 (1), April 2018 (Peer Reviewed)
  • Martin B, PhD Thesis Available to Download here
  • Martin, B, "The Thing About Listening is..." Compositional Approaches and Inspiration using spoken word, field recordings and electroacoustic techniques, (2014) CEC (Canadian Electroacoustic Community’s online journal, eContact! (Peer Reviewed)
  • O’Keeffe, L. 2016. Memories of Sound: Socioeconomic, Community and Cultural Soundscapes of Smithfield, Dublin from the 1950s. In M. Bull and L. Back (eds.) The Auditory Culture Reader. 2nd edition. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
  • Rennie, T. 2014. Socio-Sonic: An Ethnographic Methodology for Electroacoustic Composition. Organised Sound 19(2): 117–24.
  • Stollery, P. 2013. Capture, Manipulate, Project, Preserve: A Compositional Journey. Journal of Music, Technology and Education 6(3): 285-98.
  • Westerkamp, H. 1999. Soundscape Composition: Linking Inner and Outer Worlds.


 ​Interviews:

Websites/Blogs:
Podcasts:
Chris Watson, Science Weekly, Oceans of Noise, 3 parts
Mongabay Podcast: News and Inspiration from Natures Front Line


​Develop your skills in Field Recording: ​
Archives:
Acoustic Monitoring/Streaming