The Earth as soundscape: a very sketchy portrait of a very noisy planet

• Authors: Stanisław Puppel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

The earth forms a gigantic sound theatre. The sound arena, as we may also call it, has been formed in a number of phases. They include the following: the phase of the formation of the natural sound arena (geophony), the formation of the bio sound arena (biophony/zoophony), the phase of the formation of the human sound arena (anthropophony), the phase of the formation of machine-produced sound arena (technophony). All of them are merged into the Earth’s soundscape. In ecological terms, technophony should be kept at a minimum if the Earth’s overall wellbeing is to be considered seriously.

Keywords

EN

geophony; biophony/zoophony; anthropophony; technophony; phonic wellbeing; geophony; biophony/zoophony; anthropophony; technophony; phonic wellbeing

PL

geophony; biophony/zoophony; anthropophony; technophony; phonic wellbeing

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Scripta Neophilologica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 20
• Pages: 199-204

Dates

published

2020-11-15

Contributors

author

Stanisław Puppel

• Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/snp.2020.20.12