Wednesday, June 11, 2014

#4 Acoustic Ecology

We must be quite loud if there's a study that defines such rowdiness. Defining it would be condensing it as the relationship between living organisms, and the sounds that are around them within the moment. Sometimes, this sound isn't even noticeable unless that person concentrates hard enough (or realistically, pays close attention to that particular object or area) and listens to the sound emitting from wherever. These "acoustics" are also implemented in film, as they are mingled with through a wide variety of audio editing techniques. One particular aspect of this is the creation and use of soundscapes; they have a lot in common, the terms acoustic ecology & soundscape, especially whenever filmmakers piece together sounds that share familiarity with whatever shot is being edited at any time. Our minds can either decide to create a connection towards an object or area, specific place etc when we concentrate on that particular sound by closing our eyes, and focusing exactly on that "entity". This is the same way most filmmakers (if needed) create whole soundscapes from scratch while using their imagination to construct a compatible audio track. Through this unique process, it can be said that the non-existence of imagery itself, separate from the audio, isn't mandatory as whatever the viewer hears can picture the scene in his or her mind. Some theories have mentioned the individuality of a person's psychological characteristics have an opulent number of effects on the mind, which ultimately describes a part of (in certain ways) how the sound is manipulated, and then interpreted in whichever way the person sees it to be. An example of that is how anyone hiking can only be concentrating the sound emitted from someone else, or simply thoughts from the mind, that clouds the person's current condition; this leads to the environment itself being completely ignored, as somewhat defined by the term coined as "acoustic ecology".

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