Anthropophony

The term, anthropophony, consisting of the Greek prefix, anthropo, meaning human, and the suffix, phon, meaning sound is a neologism used to describe all sound produced by humans, whether coherent, such as music, theatre, and language, or incoherent and chaotic such as random signals generated primarily by electromechanical means.[1][2]

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. Anthropophony 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.[3][4]

See also
  • Nature sounds

References
  1. "Voices of the Wild: Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes" Krause 2015, Yale University Press
  2. Joe Ferguson, Collaboration: Biophony, an Evolutionary Collaboration, SciArt in America, p. 36–42, June, 2015
  3. Bernie Krause, "Anatomy of the Soundscape," Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 56, no. 1/2, January–February 2008
  4. "The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places," Krause 2012, Little Brown
  • Hull J. "The Noises of Nature". Idea Lab. New York Times Magazine, 18 February 2008.
  • Krause B (January–February 2008). "Anatomy of the Soundscape". Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. 56 (1/2).
  • 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, August 2011
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