Is Landscape Sound? A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Soundscape of Trento (Italy)

This multidisciplinary—landscape architecture, urban planning, electronic music, composition, and field recording—research project investigates the relationships and interferences between landscape and sound (i.e., soundscape) in Trento (Italy) through environmental sound sampling and mapping. Interaction between disciplines—and between sight and hearing, in the landscape perception—has a key role throughout the research. This contribution aims to report the stages of the activities carried out in the summer 2021 by the research team and to illustrate the first results, the most substantial of which is the sound map, a catalog of urban sounds; a conceptual sound section has also been drawn, to illustrate additional information and reflections that the map does not highlight.