Robophony: A new voice in the soundscape

Soundscape studies typically distinguish between three sources of sound: biophony, sounds produced by animals, plants, and other biological entities; geophony, sounds produced by non-living features such as water or wind; and anthrophony, sounds produced by humans and human technology. Recent developments in the study of hybrid ecosystems and ecological robotics challenge these categorizations. A series of four soundscape interventions are considered, which lead to the proposal of a new category: robophony. These interventions — robots and autonomous digital agents — operate in feedback loops with the existing bio-, geo-, and anthrophony in the ecosystem. The properties that emerge from these cases: site specificity, hybrid sourcing, and layered temporality form the basis of this new category of sound in the soundscape.

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David Kadish

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Publication date: August 2019

Publication date (Print): August 2019

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/RESOUND19.37

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Conference name: RE:SOUND 2019 – 8th International Conference on Media Art, Science, and Technology

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Conference number: 8

Conference location: Aalborg, Denmark

Conference date: August 20-23, 2019

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Media Art, Science, and Technology

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[1] Sarah L. DumyahnBryan C. Pijanowski Nov 2011 Soundscape conservation Landscape Ecology 26 9 1327 1344 ISSN : 0921-2973 DOI:10.1007/s10980-011-9635-x

[2] David Dunn 2002 Four Electroacoustic Compositions

[3] Claus Emmeche Dec 2007 A biosemiotic note on organisms, animals, machines, cyborgs, and the quasi-autonomy of robots Pragmatics & Cognition 15 3 455 483 ISSN : 0929-0907 DOI:10.1075/pc.15.3.06emm

[4] Amandine Gasc Jan 2017 Future directions for soundscape ecology: The importance of ornithological contributions The Auk 134 1 215 228 ISSN : 0004-8038 DOI:10.1642/AUK-16-124.1

[5] Richard J. HobbsEric HiggsCarol M. Hall 2014 Managing the whole landscape: Historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 12 10 557 564 ISSN : 15409309 DOI:10.1890/130300

[6] Richard J. HobbsEric HiggsJames A. Harris Nov 2009 Novel ecosystems: implications for conservation and restoration Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24 11 599 605 ISSN : 01695347 doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.05.012

[7] Ian Ingram 2010 The Woodiest Tech. rep www.ianingram.org

[8] Lawrence Kilham July 1979 Courtship and the Pair-Bond of Pileated Woodpeckers The Auk 96 3 587 594 DOl:10.1093/auk/96.3.587

[9] Bernard L. Krause 1997 Into a wild sanctuary : a life in music & natural sound Berkeley Calif Heyday Books 200 9781890771119

[10] Bernie L. Krause 1987 Bioacoustics, Habitat Ambience in Ecological Balance Whole Earth Review 57 14 18 ISSN : 0749-5056

[11] Bernie L. Krause 2008 Anatomy of the soundscape: Evolving perspectives AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 56 1-2 73 80 ISSN : 15494950

[12] Bernie L. KrauseStuart Gage 2003 Testing Biophony as an Indicator of Habitat Fitness and Dynamics Tech. rep Clen Ellen, CA Wild Sanctuary Inc 18

[13] Eugene S. Morton Jan 1975 Ecological Sources of Selection on Avian Sounds The American Naturalist 109 965 17 34 ISSN : 0003-0147 DOI:10.1086/282971

[14] Bryan C. PijanowskiAlmo Farina Nov 2011 What is soundscape ecology? An introduction and overview of an emerging new science Landscape Ecology 26 9 1213 1232 ISSN : 0921-2973 DOI:10.1007/s10980-011-9600-8

[15] Bryan C. PijanowskiLuis J. Villanueva-Rivera Mar 2011 Soundscape Ecology: The Science of Sound in the Landscape BioScience 61 3 203 216 ISSN : 15253244 DOI:10.1525/bio.2011.61.3.6

[16] A.C. Roosevelt Dec 2013 The Amazon and the Anthropocene: 13,000 years of human influence in a tropical rainforest Anthropocene 4 69 87 ISSN : 22133054 DOI:10.1016/j.ancene.2014.05.001

[17] R. Murray Schafer 1977 The tuning of the world A.A. Knopf 301 0394409663

[18] Kenneth O. StanleyRisto Miikkulainen June 2002 Evolving Neural Networks through Augmenting Topologies Evolutionary Computation 10 2 99 127 ISSN : 1063-6560 DOI:10.1162/106365602320169811

[19] Rihards Vitols 2016 Woodpecker Tech. rep. vitols.xyz

[20] Rihards VitolsRegine Debatty 2016 The Woodpecker: Could fake birds save our forests? We Make Money Not Art August

[21] John A. Wiens Oct 2009 Landscape ecology as a foundation for sustainable conservation Landscape Ecology 24 8 1053 1065 ISSN :0921-2973 DOI:10.1007/s10980-008-9284-x

[22] Aimee van WynsbergheJustin Donhauser Oct 2017 The Dawning of the Ethics of Environmental Robots Science and Engineering Ethics ISSN : 1353- 3452 DOI:10.1007/s11948-017-9990-3

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