Sonic environmental aesthetics and landscape research

Prior, Jonathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7081-8025 2017. Sonic environmental aesthetics and landscape research. Landscape Research 42 (1) , pp. 6-17. 10.1080/01426397.2016.1243235

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Abstract

The environmental aesthetics literature has primarily focused on the aesthetic qualities and values of landscapes. Within this scholarship, there has been a modest but steady advancement towards explicitly attending to the aesthetic experience of landscape sounds. In this paper, I review the theoretical and applied sonic aesthetics literature pertinent to landscape research, and identify some existing weaknesses. In particular, I demonstrate that there is an ongoing tendency to limit discussions to what is sonically pleasing or displeasing within a given landscape, which, I argue, provides a limited point of entry through which to consider the full scope of landscape sounds. I then turn to offer some ways to address these weaknesses—notably through what I term the development of a ‘sensitive ear’, and through field recording strategies—in the hope that this will allow scholars to better enfold sonic environmental aesthetics within future theoretical and applied landscape research.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GB Physical geography G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Landscape aesthetics; soundscapes; environmental values; field recording; sonic aesthetics
Additional Information:	This is an Open access article distributed under the terms of the creative commons attribution-noncommercial-noderivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	0142-6397
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	19 April 2016
Date of Acceptance:	19 April 2016
Last Modified:	02 May 2023 16:44
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/89384

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