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Re: New Soundscapes & realism

Subject: Re: New Soundscapes & realism
From: "hartogj" hartogj
Date: Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:49 pm ((PST))
Hi Jose,
At least around here, in North America, many native animal species avoid hu=
man presence. The greater the human presence the greater the impact on the =
habitat or ecosystem. Roads create swaths of lower animal diversity and pop=
ulation size.  Any anthropogenic sounds associated with a human presence in=
 an area that is considered to be "natural" I might consider "bad" for that=
 natural ecosystem, and definitely "bad" for type of nature recording that =
I do. Of course transportation sounds from air and highway traffic are the =
worst. Through these sounds of our loud motors we extend our presence deepl=
y into even the most remote corners of our world.

Can you give some examples of the "good" anthropogenic sounds you are refer=
ring to?

John Hartog
rockscallop.org



--- In  "freitojos" <> wr=
ote:
>
> Jonh,
> I think it is not a good thing to think all antropogenic sound is bad. Th=
e bad antropogenic sound is noise. We can't avoid antropogenic sounds and t=
he naturescapes are antropogenic visualy here in Portugal, absolutely impos=
sible to avoid it here in south europe. So it must exist good antropogenic =
sound, I know it exists for shure in my memory. So in my recording I am not=
 going to avoid good antropogenic sound, I am going to avoid noise or bad a=
ntropogenic sound. Recording soudscapes must be pedagogic in the sense that=
 it can teach how to avoid make noise and make only good antropogenic sound=
.
>
>  regards,
> Jos=E9








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