Anthrophony

The term, anthrophony, consists of the Greek prefix, anthro, meaning human, and the suffix, phon, meaning sound. The term refers to all sound produced by humans, whether correlated, such as music, theatre, and language, or incoherent and uncorrelated such as random signals generated by electromechanical means.

The term was first used to describe certain soundscape phenomena recorded as part of a bioacoustic study in 2001-2002 commissioned by the National Park Service, and done in Sequoia/King's Canyon National Park. Anthrophony is one of three terms used by Drs. Stuart Gage and Bernie Krause to define the general sources of human sounds/noise that occur within a soundscape. The other two non-human, but natural sound sources include biophony, and geophony.^[1][2]

See also

• Nature sounds

References

• Krause, Bernie (1998). Into a Wild Sanctuary. Berkeley, California: Heyday Books. 
• Krause, Bernie (2002). Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World. Berkeley, California: Wilderness Press. 
• Krause, Bernie (31 January 2001). Loss of Natural Soundscape: Global Implications of Its Effect on Humans and Other Creatures. World Affairs Council, San Francisco, California. 
• Hull J. "The Noises of Nature". Idea Lab (New York Times Magazine, 18 Feb 2008). 
• Krause B (2008). "Anatomy of the Soundscape". Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 56 (1/2 Jan/Feb 2008). 
• Bryan C. Pijanowski, Luis J. Villanueva-Rivera, Sarah L. Dumyahn, Almo Farina, Bernie L. Krause, Brian M. Napoletano, Stuart H. Gage, and Nadia Pieretti,Soundscape Ecology: The Science of Sound in the Landscape, BioScience, March, 2011, Vol. 61 No. 3, 203-216
• Bernie Krause, Stuart H. Gage, Wooyeong Joo, Measuring and interpreting the temporal variability in the soundscape at four places in Sequoia National Park, Landscape Ecology, DOI 10.1007/s10980-011-9639-6, Aug. 2011