soundscape

plural soundscapes

1. An acoustic environment, a virtual/emotional environment created using sound.

   Kleist’s drama is in that tradition and Mr. Bakewell was always in command of it. His soundscape of the field of Fehrbellin presented a tremendous panorama to the mind’s eye.

   1958, British Broadcasting Corporation, The Listener, volume 59, page 475

2. An electroacoustic musical composition creating a sound portrait of a sound environment.

present singular third person soundscapes · participle present soundscaping · participle past soundscaped · past soundscaped

1. To establish or define an acoustic environment, either a virtual one created using sound or a physical one created architecturally to have specific effects on sound.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:soundscaped.