soundscape

[sound-skeyp]

noun

1. the component sounds of an environment.

2. the component sounds of a piece of music.

Word History and Origins

Origin of soundscape¹

First recorded in 1965–70; sound ¹ ( def. ) + -scape ( def. )

Example Sentences

To her luck, the city’s ethos aligned with the sonic soundscape she was building out in “Día.”

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The 23-minute work is set to music by Venezuelan-born electronic composer Arca, whose techno-inflected soundscape serves as background music more than it spurs the dance’s movement: Think spluttery and raspy sonorities, here; resonant chime-like ones, there.

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Cobbling together that performance meant that mixers had to rebuild the entire soundscape of the film – not only to cut out the spoken prompts by Indy’s humans, but to also incorporate the actual scripted dialogue for actors Shane Jensen and Arielle Friendman who performed Todd and Vera, respectively, in addition to blending in sound effects and music.

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Nothing, however, sounds like you might expect in Reid’s massive orchestral soundscape capable of holding a listener in tight grip for 30 minutes.

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On any given evening in the city, drivers and bikers amp up the soundscape by revving their engines while waiting at traffic stops, then slam on the gas when their light turns green, screeching down the street.

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