Table of Contents
- Abstract
- Introduction
- “What Is Music?”: The Historical Roots of Soundscape Composition
- New Noise, New Sounds: The Industrial and Electrical Revolutions
- The World Soundscape Project and the Legacy of Schizophonia
- Rejecting the Idealism of the WSP: Towards a Postmodern Approach
- Chapter Two: The Mediating Role of Technology
- Perspectivism: Exploring Nonhuman Spatio-temporal Scales
- Hearing the Unheard: Forgotten Voices
- Familiar and Foreign: Cultivating a “Glocal” Mindset
- From Specialization to Democratization: The Age of the Amateur
- Changing Roles: The Value of the Listener
- Harnessing the Imagination: Between the Real and Abstract
- Open Mind: Towards the Interdisciplinary and Multimodal
- The Search for Definition: Beyond Categorization
- Conclusion: Towards a Qualitative Knowing
- Works Cited