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RHUMBLINE: PLECTROHYLA EXQUISITA — ACOUSTIC SIMULACRA & SPATIAL SOUND IN HYBRID ARTWORKS

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Abstract

Wildlife ecologists and conservation biologists have established the importance of bioacoustic data through acoustic monitoring to assess numerous behaviors in the animal kingdom, including migration, hunting, mating, local navigation, and defense.1 Among various instances of sonic species monitoring, acoustic monitoring of amphibians has highlighted the importance of audio data. Not only has audio played a crucial role in raising the awareness of global amphibian species decline, audio data has helped to determine the acceleration of this decline, revealing the value of environmental acoustics as diagnostic and analytical frameworks in numerous scientific fields.2 However, ecoacoustic content plays an equally important role in artistic contexts, particularly electroacoustic installations that attempt to reproduce or invoke environmental soundscapes through the creative deployment of environmental field recordings through stereo or multi-channel speaker arrays.3 Yet, this preoccupation of phonographic audio in artistic contexts that has pervaded ecoacoustic artworks in the 20th and early 21st centuries neglects the rich multivalence and indeterminacy inherent in acoustically produced sound and devalues the aesthetic of instability embedded in acoustic mediums. Acoustically reproduced environmental sounds are under.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationReproduced Sound 2021
Subtitle of host publicationYou''re on Mute - The Importance of Audio
PublisherInstitute of Acoustics
ISBN (Electronic)9781713841517
StatePublished - 2021
EventReproduced Sound 2021: You''re on Mute - The Importance of Audio - Bristol, United Kingdom
Duration: Nov 16 2021Nov 18 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Institute of Acoustics
Volume43

Conference

ConferenceReproduced Sound 2021: You''re on Mute - The Importance of Audio
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityBristol
Period11/16/2111/18/21

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