Foreground sound forms temporary sonotopes while background noise reflects landscape structure

Evidence

The relationship between soundscape and landscape can be tentatively discriminated according the background/foreground duality. The unpredictability and the temporal variability of foreground sounds are less connected with landscape configuration than the background. The foreground sound moving across the landscape creates temporary sonic configurations, the sonotope, that when further shaped by vocal organisms have been considered soundtopes. — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 138

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines sonotope and soundtope, terms central to the author’s own analytical vocabulary.
• XREF: connects to: Hi-fi and lo-fi soundscapes differ by whether individual sounds survive masking — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 151; A soundscape is composed of audible events rather than visible objects — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 28; Foreground and background sounds differ by listener position and informational role — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 137 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Foreground and background sounds differ by listener position and informational role #expands (0.85) — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 137
• A soundscape is composed of audible events rather than visible objects #expands (0.80) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 28
• Background noise may prevent us from hearing an otherwise audible forest sound #expands (0.80) — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1010
• Lo-fi soundscapes erase the distinction between signal and noise #contradicts (0.75)