soundworld

English

Etymology

sound +‎ world

Noun

soundworld (plural soundworlds)

  1. A world suggested by, or typified by, sounds.
    • 1987, Donald Mitchell, Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice:
      Nor are we ever aware of this soundworld as an end in itself: it is all part and parcel of a total concept.
    • 2004, Veit Erlmann, Hearing cultures: essays on sound, listening, and modernity:
      Fitzcarraldo takes his own Western soundworld with him, and it is this soundworld that re-creates the Amazon jungle for him, making it what it is.
    • 2004, Ben Watson, Derek Bailey and the story of free improvisation:
      In other words, the musicians immerse us in the soundworlds of their instruments.
    • 2005, Chris Darke, Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965):
      In short, Scanner was intending not merely to rescore Alphaville but to remix the film's entire soundworld, an approach guaranteed to outrage purists.
    • 2006, Fiona Richards, The soundscapes of Australia: music, place and spirituality:
      The particular soundworld of Australia's natural environment provides striking and distinctive elements for the composer's imagination to work with.
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