Natural sounds
Natural sounds are any sounds produced by non-human
The definition of the soundscape can be broken down into three components: the
Definition
Humans are a product of nature this could be considered part of nature. However, humans have long-considered themselves to be separate and in conflict. For that reason, a special category of the soundscape has been set aside for humans alone. Called anthrophony, it includes all of the sound that humans produce, whether structured (i. e. music, theatre, film, etc.), or entropic, as in the electromechanical chaotic and uncontrolled signals we generate by whatever means. Anthrophony has a profound effect on the natural soundscape and the featured organisms who play seminal roles in those habitats, but the nature of that effect varies with the types and families of sound and their relative intensity.[1][2][3][4]
Natural sounds are restricted to natural sources in their normal
History
The historical background of natural sounds as they have come to be defined, begins with the recording of a single bird, by Ludwig Koch, as early as 1889. Koch's efforts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries set the stage for the universal audio capture model of single-species—primarily birds at the outset—that subsumed all others during the first half of the 20th century and well into the latter half and into the early 21st, as well.
In late 1968, influenced by acoustic efforts in the fields of music and film, this model began to evolve into a much more holistic effort with attention paid to the acoustic experience of entire habitats, inclusive of all the wild animal voices. Expressed as wild soundscapes, these phenomena included sounds primarily from two main sources, non-human and non-domestic wild ones, and non-biological sources in relatively undisturbed habitats.
Humans
Humans can benefit from natural environments to restore from stress and directed attention fatigue.[5] A human can endure high levels of stress for short time periods as long as these periods are interrupted by restoration moments.[6]
While a natural environment provides more sensory input than the soundscape there are indications that the soundscape alone also affords restoration.[7] A majority of humans indicate that they find natural sounds pleasurable.[8]
Animals
Territory sounds
These are sounds, calls, or audible signals made by any one species to its own or any other species, establishing boundaries so like or unlike species will not transgress those boundaries.
Male baboons make sounds heard for miles by other baboons, communicating to those other male baboons, the territory of that male baboon. The strength, volume, and timbre, inherent in that "call", determine whether or not rival males attempt to invade that male baboon's territory.
They do this to make them sound impressive and then to attract the female to them.
Courtship and/or mate attracting sounds
These are sounds made by the male baboon to attract females to his territory for courtship and mating. Again, the strength, quality, and timbre of those sounds, often determine the ability of that species to attract females for reproduction. These mating calls, often low and guttural, are the main criteria, used by the female baboon to determine which male she mates with.
Cultural references
The imitation of natural sounds in various cultures is a diverse phenomenon. and can fill in various functions. In several instances, it is related to the belief system, for example,
See also
- Animal communication
- Animal language
- Bioacoustics
- Bird vocalization
- Soundscape
- Soundscape ecology
- Bernie Krause
- Whale sound
- Biophony
- Geophony
- Anthrophony
Notes
- ^ Krause 1998, 2002, 2012.
- ^ "The Anatomy of the Soundscape," Bernie Krause, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Number 56, 1/2 2008, January/February.
- ISBN 978-0899972961.
- ISBN 978-0-316-08687-5.
- ^ Kaplan 1995
- ^ "Botteldooren et al. 2011" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-04. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
- ^ Alvarsson et al. 2010
- ^ "Andringa" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-04. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
- ^ Szomjas-Schiffert 1996: 56, 76
- ^ Szomjas-Schiffert 1996: 64
- ^ Szomjas-Schiffert 1996: 74
- ^ Hoppál 2006: 143 Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Diószegi 1960: 203
- ^ Hoppál 2005: 92
- ^ Lintrop
- ^ a b Nattiez: 5
- ^ Deschênes 2002
References
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- Alvarisson, Jesper J (2010). "Stress Recovery during Exposure to Nature Sound and Environmental Noise". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 7 (3): 1036–1046. PMID 20617017.
- Deschênes, Bruno (2002). "Inuit Throat-Singing". Musical Traditions. The Magazine for Traditional Music Throughout the World.
- Diószegi, Vilmos (1960). Sámánok nyomában Szibéria földjén. Egy néprajzi kutatóút története. Terebess Ázsia E-Tár (in Hungarian). Budapest: Magvető Könyvkiadó. The book has been translated to English: Diószegi, Vilmos (1968). Tracing shamans in Siberia. The story of an ethnographical research expedition. Translated from Hungarian by Anita Rajkay Babó. Oosterhout: Anthropological Publications.
- Hoppál, Mihály (2005). Sámánok Eurázsiában (in Hungarian). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. ISBN 963-05-8295-3. The title means “Shamans in Eurasia”, the book is published also in German, Estonian and Finnish. Site of publisher with short description on the book (in Hungarian).
- Hoppál, Mihály (2006). "Music of Shamanic Healing" (PDF). In Gerhard Kilger (ed.). Macht Musik. Musik als Glück und Nutzen für das Leben. Köln: Wienand Verlag. ]
- Lintrop, Aarno. "The Clean Tent Rite". Studies in Siberian shamanism and religions of the Finno-Ugric peoples.
- Nattiez, Jean Jacques. "Inuit Games and Songs • Chants et Jeux des Inuit". Musiques & musiciens du monde • Musics & musicians of the world. Montreal: Research Group in Musical Semiotics, Faculty of Music, University of Montreal.
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(help). The songs are online available from the ethnopoetics website curated by Jerome Rothenberg. - Somby, Ánde (1995). "Joik and the theory of knowledge". Archived from the original on 2008-03-25.
- Szomjas-Schiffert, György (1996). Lapp sámánok énekes hagyománya • Singing tradition of Lapp shamans (in Hungarian and English). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. ISBN 963-05-6940-X.
- Krause, Bernie (2012). The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places. Little Brown/Hachette. ISBN 978-0-316-08687-5.
External links
- The British Library Sound Archive has 150,000 recordings of over 10,000 species.
- International Bioacoustics Council links to many bioacoustics resources.
- Listen to Nature 400 examples of animal songs and calls
- Wildlife Sound Recording Society
- Wildsanctuary.com