Art on Air #5 Stefan Maier, Re-wilding Synthetic Natures 09.10.2023

Re-wilding Synthetic Natures —

Acoustic Ecology and Machine Listening in the Technosphere

Stefan Maier

Today, in the early decades of the 21st century, we can obliquely hear evidence of a strange new soundscape emerging.

This sonic environment is coextensive with the soundscape that acoustic ecology — the study of the relationship between humans and their environment through sound — has traditionally explored. It too consists of bird songs, of rushing water, and of balanced, natural acoustic niches. It too is characterized by bustling marketplaces, tinny voices from public address systems, and by bells and the various “soundmarks” that characterize human settlements everywhere. And just as acoustic ecologists have noted with alarm for decades, it too is an environment in...

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