Acoustic design now shapes everyday spaces from offices to wind farms
Evidence
I coined the term schizophonia in The New Soundscape intending it to be a nervous word. Related to schizophrenia, I wanted it to convey the same sense of aberration and drama. Indeed, the overkill of hi-fi gadgetry not only contributes generously to the lo-fi problem, but it creates a synthetic soundscape in which natural sounds are becoming increasingly unnatural while machine-made substitutes are providing the operative signals directing modern life. — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 333 (
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Categorization
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Broader Connections
- Hi-fi gadgetry creates a synthetic soundscape where machine sounds direct modern life
#complicates(0.75) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 333