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, 2015 Browsing soundscapes is generally based on the waveform of the audio signal or textual metadata, which may be not informative. The TM-charts provide an efficient tool to represent and compare soundscapes. However, they remain little used probably due to the human annotation they need.
Guyot, Patrice, Pinquier, Julien
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Categorizing Shallow Marine Soundscapes Using Explained Clusters
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 Natural marine soundscapes are being threatened by increasing anthropic noise, particularly in shallow coastal waters. To preserve and monitor these soundscapes, understanding them is essential.
Clea Parcerisas +4 more
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Natural soundscapes enhance mood recovery amid anthropogenic noise pollution.
PLoS ONEIn urbanised landscapes, the scarcity of green spaces and increased exposure to anthropogenic noise have adverse effects on health and wellbeing. While reduced speed limits have historically been implemented to address traffic safety, their potential ...
Lia R V Gilmour +3 more
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Spatio-temporal suspension and imagery in popular music recordings [PDF]
IASPM Journal, 2017 Constructed spatiality and perceived imagery in popular music recordings has been in evidence since the 1930s as “a fundamentally pictorial tradition (…) reverb and echo effects deployed in combination with certain lyrics to render aural vistas” (Doyle ...
Peter Gavin Long
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Measuring the perceived restorativeness of soundscapes : is it about the sounds, the person, or the environment? [PDF]
, 2013 To determine the ‘restorative aspects of sound exposure’ a reliable and valid measure is needed. A Perceived Restorativeness Soundscape Scale (PRSS), which measures the level of Fascination, Being-Away, Compatibility, and Extent (FACE), has been ...
Guastavino, Catherine +2 more
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Ecology in Canada: Sonic Waterscapes, Literary Waterways, Photo-Lyric Water Soundtracks
Iperstoria, 2022 In this essay I intend to demonstrate how soundscapes might be harbingers of environmental crises and, consequently, how literature translates those same soundscapes and the stories they have to tell.
Carmen Concilio
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Religions, 2020 For centuries, religious buildings have been using bells to call the faithful to prayer. Bell-ringing activity on church premises does not serve a purely religious function, however, as people in the community may perceive this activity secularly ...
Murray Parker, Dirk H.R. Spennemann
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Noise and Music Together. Soundscapes of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Rome
, 2023 This chapter investigates the key elements of Rome’s soundscapes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from a diachronic perspective through an analysis of various typologies of sounds, from the ‘keynote’ and ‘low definition’ sounds of ...
Caputo S.
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Film music and construction of tourist imaginaries in Hollywood blockbusters
Via@, 2023 The various films of the two successful spy franchises, James Bond and Mission: Impossible, are distinguished not only by their lead actors (heroes and antagonists), but also by their geographical settings.
Marie-Hélène Chevrier, Chloé Huvet
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Birdsongs alleviate anxiety and paranoia in healthy participants
Scientific Reports, 2022 The present study investigated the effect of urban (traffic noise) vs. natural (birdsongs) soundscapes on mood, state paranoia, and cognitive performance, hypothesizing that birdsongs lead to significant improvements in these outcomes. An additional goal
E. Stobbe +3 more
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