Soundscape

"Soundscape is all sounds, those of biophony, geophony, and anthrophony, emanating from a landscape to create unique acoustical patterns across a variety of spatial and temporal scales” (B. C. Pijanowski, L. J. Villanueva-Rivera, S.L.Dumyahn, A.Farina, B.L.Krause, B.M.Napoletano, S.H.Gage, and N. Pieretti,“Soundscape Ecology: The Science of Sound in the Landscape,”BioScience,vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 203–216, 2011)

"An environment of sound with emphasis on the way it is perceived and understood by the individual, or by a society. It thus depends on the relationship between the individual and any such environment. The termmay refer to actual environments or to ab-stract constructions such as musical compositions and tape montages, particularly when considered as an artificial environment."

(B.Truax,Handbook for Acoustic Ecology. Cam-bridge, MA: Cambridge Street Publishing, 1999.)

"Soundscape is the acoustic environment of aplace, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors."

(A. L. Brown, “A review of progress in soundscapesand an approach to soundscape planning,”The Inter-national Journal of Acoustics and Vibration, vol. 17,no. 2, 2012.)