Soundscape

In a musical sense, soundscapes are electronic or electroacoustic compositions which often include or utilize recordings of natural, environmental or technological sounds, both processed or unprocessed. Known for this technique are e.g. Brian Eno, Steve Reich, King Crimson-founder Robert Fripp, real-time granular synthesis pioneer Barry Truax and musique concrète composer Luc Ferrari. His »Presque rien No. 1 'Le Lever du jour au bord de la mer'« from 1970 is an early soundscape composition, consisting of an edited day-long recording of environmental sounds at a beach in Yugoslavia.

Probably the most extreme and experimental soundscape composition is »Charm of Sound« by Finnish composer and sound artist Petri Kuljuntausta which is intended to be performed in outer space. It was brought onto the surface of Saturn's moon Titan by the Cassini–Huygens space-research mission and shall be performed by using all suitable material found there on the ground.