The soundwalk is any excursion whose main purpose is listening to the environment

Evidence

A soundwalk is any excursion whose main purpose is listening to the environment. It is exposing our ears to every sound around us no matter where we are. We may be at home, we may be walking across a downtown street, through a park, along the beach; we may be sitting in a doctor’s office, in a hotel lobby, in a bank; we may be shopping in a supermarket, a department store, or a Chinese grocery store; we may be standing at the airport, the train station, the bus-stop. Wherever we go we will give our ears priority. They have been neglected by us for a long time and, as a result, we have done little to develop an acoustic environment of good quality. — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 2105

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Soundwalks restore human connection to nature eroded by urbanization — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 2107; Four main procedures organize the soundscape research field — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 2133; Soundwalks use mapped scores to guide attention to specific sounds — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 695 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Soundwalks use mapped scores to guide attention to specific sounds #expands (0.82) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 695
• Attending closely to movement reveals a whole vivid soundscape within walking #exemplifies (0.78) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 431
• The entire soundscape can be treated as one ongoing musical composition #expands (0.75) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 669