Welcome to Listen Here!
This podcast is the result of my newfound love of soundscape ecology! As I spent time learning to record soundscapes, I've spent a lot of time traveling from place to place and just listening. As a result, I started to hear stories that unfold with the acoustic landscape! I wanted to learn more about these places and start sharing the stories and the sounds that I have been collecting.
The first podcast episode is short and it introduces you to the elements of a soundscape. Biophony is the living (non-human) portion of the soundscape - like frogs and birds and cicadas (more about those on a future episode). Geophony is the non-living portion of the landscape - like rock slides, thunder, wind and rain. Anthophony makes up the remainder of a soundscape - all of the sounds that originate with people. I will explore all kinds of soundscapes, but I really want you to experience soundscapes that are not dominated by humans!
I'm happy you found my podcast, and I hope that you will continue to follow me on this journey!
In my first episode, I reference quite a few sources, here are some of the important ones:
Barber, Jesse; Burdette, Chris; Reed, Sarah; Warner, Katy; Formichella, Charlotte; Crooks, Kevin; Theobald, Dave; Fristrup, Kurt. 2011. Anthropogenic noise exposure in protected natural areas: estimating the scale of ecological consequences. Landscape Ecology, 26:1281-1295.
Quiet Parks International. 2019. https://www.quietparks.org/ accessed 22 February 2021.
Schafer, R. Murray. 1993. The soundscape: our sonic environment and the tuning of the world. Rochester, Vt.: Destiny Books.
Stansfield, Stephen; Matheson, Mark. 2003. Noise pollution: non-auditory effects on health. British Medical Bulletin, 68:243-257.
Stansfield, S; Berglund, B; Clark, C; Lopez-Barrio, I; Fischer, P; Öhrström, E; Haines, MM; Hygge, S; van Kamp, I; Berry, BF. 2005. Aircraft and road traffic noise and children’s cognition and health: a cross-national study. Lancet, 365:1942-1949.
Tassi, Patricia; Rohmer, Odile; Bonnefond, Anne; Margiocchi, Florence; Poisson, Franck; Schimchowitsch, Sarah. 2013. Long term exposure to nocturnal railway noise produces chronic signs of cognitive deficits and diurnal sleepiness. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 33:45-52.