Etymology

soundwalk

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Today it means: An excursion for the purpose of listening to the environment. Full definition →

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The story

From sound + walk; first used by members of the World Soundscape Project under the leadership of composer R. Murray Schafer in Vancouver in the 1970s.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.