soundscape

From sound + -scape.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaʊndskeɪp/
• Rhymes: -eɪp

soundscape (plural soundscapes)

1. An acoustic environment, a virtual/emotional environment created using sound.
   • 1958, British Broadcasting Corporation, The Listener, volume 59, page 475:

     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.

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

soundscape (third-person singular simple present soundscapes, present participle soundscaping, simple past and past participle 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.