> Message: 10=20=20=20=20=20
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 06:39:23 -0700
> From: Wild Sanctuary <>
> Subject: Re: A Serendipitous Finding
>
> That's a great quote, Geoff. Hadn't seen that one before, but I'd
> like to include it in the book I'm now writing tentatively titled at
> the moment, Wild Music: How Animals Taught Us to Dance and Sing. I
> have read Lucretius in a university philosophy class some 50 years
> ago but don't remember that one. Do you have a reference?
>
> I've divided Schafer's soundscape idea into three components: (1) the
> biophony - non-human critter sounds, (2) geophony - non-biological
> sounds like weather, water, geophysical (earthquakes, avalanches,
> etc.), and (3) anthrophony - human-induced sound from whatever source
> (electromechanical, physiological, controlled [as in music, etc], and
> incidental). Anthrophony affects both our listening experience of the
> natural world and, in particular, the biophony. Not only is our
> experience profoundly affected, but the delicate fabric of the
> biophony is disrupted to various degrees, as well, and as several of
> our studies have shown. So we're hit in two ways: first our
> distraction as a result of our noise. And second, because the
> biophony is disrupted, what we experience of the natural soundscape
> is distorted.
>
> As far as plant sounds, yes, we have recorded that sounds of cells
> popping in the trunks of cottonwood trees and have examples of that.
> Perhaps we need to consider some sub-classes of sound such as
> florophony.
>
> All the best,
> Bernie
Hi Bernie
In my notes I've got Lucretius De Rerum Natura v1380. It's at least 30 year=
s
since I read anything directly from de rerum natura; I think I picked up th=
e
quote from somewhere else, possibly Edward Armstrong's Study of Birdsong.
The distinction of the three parts of the soundscape makes sense to me. It
was just the etymology of the word anthrophony I was wondering about. I loo=
k
forward to reading your book. Mick Jagger's performance always used to
remind me of lekking grouse - black grouse in particular. Though I'll
publicly apologise to the grouse here and now for the demeaning comparison:
when it comes to vocal performance and style of presentation, the grouse ar=
e
in a class of their own.
Best wishes, Geoff.
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
|