What is a Soundscape Composition
What is a Soundscape Composition
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2012
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J. C. Pinto
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Soundscape composition is a genre of electroacoustic music that flourished during the late seventies as a direct consequence of the World Soundscape Project, a pedagogical oriented research group harbored at Simon Fraser University, in Canada. The main interests of this interdisciplinary group were firstly centered in the ecological noise pollution issues and, afterwards, expanded to other activities, such as the creation of soundscape compositions. The study of the soundscape composition thematic implies an analysis of the argumentative determinations and constituent elements of this particular area of electroacoustic composition. Throughout this paper we will seek to show, on the one hand, the basic principles of this compositional art, historically contextualizing them and, on the other hand, revealing conceptual issues relating both to theory and practice of soundscape composition. Firstly, we will contextualize the soundscape concept, synthetically revealing the genesis of this genre, while highlighting the role of its founders, in the World Soundscape Project context. Secondly, we will present a clear distinction between the analytical foundations of the soundscape concept (its features and goals) as suggested by the World Soundscape Project and Schafer, and the postulates coined by Barry Truax regarding the soundscape composition concept. The aforementioned distinction will mainly refer to the roles and definitions of perception (as listening), environment (as a medium of interrelationships) and sound (as the mediator between subject and environment). Finally, we will examine some conceptual constraints concerning the principles of soundscape composition, pointing as well to the explicitly ecological, ethical and social character to which the theory and practice of this kind of composition is subjected, exposing the aesthetical and creative limitations which can result from this character.