Acoustic ecology, also known as soundscape studies or ecoacoustics, is the study of the relationships between living beings and their sonic environment.

Design director working on AI hardware. One foot in the board room, one on the street. moonshot.ooo

Completely new to me as well! Diving into a rabbit hole of field recording research and this term came up. Fascinating!

I remember coming across a tiktok video about this. Then I did a little googling and learned about biophony, geophony and anthrophony. I love niche areas of study lmao