soundscape
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Etymology
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Noun
soundscape (plural soundscapes)
- An acoustic environment, a virtual/emotional environment created using sound.
- 1958, British Broadcasting Corporation, The Listener, volume 59, page 475:
- Kleist’s drama is in that tradition and Mr. Bakewell was always in command of it. His soundscape of the field of Fehrbellin presented a tremendous panorama to the mind’s eye.
- An electroacoustic musical composition creating a sound portrait of a sound environment.
Translations
virtual/emotional environment created using sound
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electroacoustic musical composition
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Verb
soundscape (third-person singular simple present soundscapes, present participle soundscaping, simple past and past participle soundscaped)
- To establish or define an acoustic environment, either a virtual one created using sound or a physical one created architecturally to have specific effects on sound.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:soundscaped.