Soundscape, Landscape, Escape

Soundscape: no concept has proven to be more fertile or ubiquitous in the academic study of sound. The term is everywhere in sound studies, and seems somehow central to everything. For people new to the field, it provides an exciting point of entry. It also graces the covers of some of our important books. As a neologism it is immediately accessible. It sounds like what it means, even if the term lays like a blanket over a field of competing meanings. The term’s popularity rests precisely on its ability to evoke a whole complex set of ideas, preferences, practices, scientific