Natural soundscapes are best understood by comparative listening

Evidence

When I taught a Joy of Listening seminar at the Olympic Park Institute in the late 1990s, I would take the class here and we would listen to the lake, and then move elsewhere in the park in order to listen more deeply and closely. — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 242

Categorization

• SEED: A teaching-technique angle: the practice of listening to a place, then relocating to listen more deeply, as a transferable method for any sensory writing or observation.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 242
• XREF: connects to: Deep Listening expands to the whole soundscape while focusing on single sounds — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 77; Disparate sounds can be unified through relational listening — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 295; Isobel and events maps offer concrete soundscape notation methods — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 452 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Disparate sounds can be unified through relational listening #expands (0.45) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 295