Eco Acoustics
Originating from ecocriticism and musicology, Ecomusicology is the study of music, culture and nature in all the complexities of those terms. Ecomusicology considers musical and sonic issues, both textual and performative, related to ecology and the natural environment (Aaron Allen, USA), and encompasses the interdisciplinary field of music, sound, ethnology, anthropology, sociology, biology, history, ecology, art, literature, environmental sciences, psychology as well as acoustic ecology and soundscape studies. Acoustic ecology or soundscape studies, is a discipline studying the relationship, mediated through sound, between human beings and their environment.
Acoustic ecologists also study the relationships between the three basic sources of sound:
- biophony, generated by living organisms
- geophony from non-biological natural categories
- anthropophony produced by humans, and
- technophony, the presence of electro-mechanical noise
