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soundscape

noun

An acoustic environment, a virtual/emotional environment created using sound.

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Morricone revolutionised the way music was used in westerns, creating a wild west soundscape of gunshots, eerie whistling, twanging guitars and dissonant harmonicas that matched the unsettling heat and tension of Leone's parched desert landscape, and its heroes and villains, portrayed through long shots and close-up cinematography.

Priests at the Yakuo-in temple, which is situated on the mountain, create a mystical soundscape as they blow conch shells and perform prayers for Geikosai – the festival to welcome the light.

It's understandable – he's in Manchester for the final stages of rehearsal for The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, a staged biography of Serbian-born "godmother of performance art" Abramovic's life, to be performed at the MIF, directed by Robert Wilson, featuring music by Hegarty and avant-garde "soundscape artist" William Basinski.

If you walk among them, you begin to hear – above the batter of waves on rock – a fragmentary soundscape of poems about love, snatches of Sappho, Sophocles and Shakespeare.

Jamaal May finds music in the urban soundscape in Hum and francine j harris's Allegiance is a book of rich emotional archeology.

As the work unfolds this weekend, Warner said she wanted people to be "wrapped around by the dark" as they listened to the soundscape.

They neatly accomplished the tricky feat of co-ordinating the different tempos and metres the soundscape was at once cacophonous and beautiful.

Mr Cunningham continues to roll dice and flip coins to make certain choreography decisions, explaining that this helps him avoid cliché.For this new work, the choreography was set against an edgy soundscape of grinding guitars and industrial noise, composed and performed by John Paul Jones (formerly of Led Zeppelin), Takehisa Kosugi and Sonic Youth, a rock band.

Audiences watch a mime character preparing for suicide with a noose and end up cheering a finale involving a ticker-tape storm and giant coloured balls, against a haunting, electronic soundscape.

THE music of "Einstein on the Beach" is so grand and epic yet so mesmerising and repetitive that it feels as if it were the soundscape of a dream.

Lucy and Jorge Orta, two contemporary artists, have created the set; Nitin Sawhney, a musician, provides a near-constant claustrophobic soundscape; and several talented actors, led by Harriet Walter and Imogen Stubbs, recount the ordeals of the besieged.Medical supply crates, sandbags and hospital beds lie scattered around the industrial interior of the brewery.

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