dronescape
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[edit]Noun
[edit]dronescape (plural dronescapes)
- (music) A soundscape or acoustic environment consisting of repetitive droning noises.
- 2008, David Sheppard, On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno, London: Orion Books, →ISBN, pages 355–356:
- Most of the sounds had been made by Eno's own hand, although Michael Brook, Daniel Lanois and Bill Laswell (and his Material bandmate, keyboardist Michael Beinhorn and guitarist Axel Gros) would have found earlier contributions peeking through Eno's murmuring, quivering dronescapes.
- 2010, Will Romano, Mountains Come Out of the Sky: An Illustrated History of Prog Rock, Milwaukee, W.I.: Backbeat Books, →ISBN, page 190:
- Waves of sound are layered but don't disappear, and [Robert] Fripp sends textural pieces soaring with his signature sustain, creating a kind of dronescape continuum.
- 2014, Bob Stanley, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music From Bill Haley to Beyoncé, New York. N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 509:
- Nineteen eighty-nine's "How Does It Feel" was seven minutes of minimal electro blips, lightly phased, over a three-note guitar dronescape, with [Peter] Kember asking repeatedly, "So tell me, how does it feel?"
- 2021 December 14, Martin Longley, “Jaimie Branch gets Enjoy Jazz jumping”, in Jazzwise[1], London: Jazzwise Publications Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-03-15:
- Branch held her pinging watch alarm up to the microphones, kicked her floor tambourine, and the band collectively developed a dronescape.
- 2023 April 23, Seth Colter Walls, “Now Celebrated, Julius Eastman's Music Points to a New Canon”, in The New York Times[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-28:
- Elsewhere, the violist Mona Tian — an expert in the string quartet music of Wadada Leo Smith — was liable to place a dollop of edgy timbre or rhythmic pulsations into the dronescape whenever things threatened to go slack.
- A landscape as viewed or photographed by a drone.
- 2017, Ayperi Karabuda Ecer, Dronescapes: The New Aerial Photography:
- (see title)
- 2022 February, Nigel Clifford, Heather Viles, Andy Eavis, Rita Gardner, Jonathan Rigg, Chris Philo, Peter Kraftl, Patricia Noxolo, Emma Mawdsley, Nina Laurie, “Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2020 and 2021”, in The Geographical Journal:
- The 2021 recipient is Alice Collins for her study I've never seen it look like that: The dronescape, tentative enchantments, and a passion to fly.
- 2022, S Lehtinen, “Urban Aesthetics and Technology”, in Shannon Vallor, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology, page 460:
- New mobility technologies can also emphasize traditional scenic beauty in cities, a good example of this being the ubiquitous dronescape photography and video.
- A region that is under the influence of patrolling drones or the people and technologies that make up those patrols.
- 2015 Winter, Geoff Coliandris Coliandris, “Is anyone remotely interested?: The rise of the police drone”, in Australasian Policing, volume 7, number 1:
- In Australia, in addition to the AFP, state police departments have entered the dronescape.
- 2015, Mark B. Salter, Making Things International 1: Circuits and Motion:
- Viewed within dronescape formations, as entangled ensembles of spaces, technologies, and human subjects, drones emerge not as mere technological effect of human cause but as actors instrumental in the very processes of shaping, conditioning, and producing new local and international spatial relations, subjectivities, and cultural practices.
- 2021, Bruce Arrigo, Brian Sellers, The Pre-Crime Society, page 445:
- Drones, as Joseph Pugliese argues, reconfigure the practices of daily life of those living under what he terms the 'dronescape' (2015, p. 225), and they also 'establish new conceptualizations of the relation between the local and the international' (2015, p. 223).
- 2022, Dominika Kunertova, “The Ukraine Drone Effect on European Militaries”, in CSS Policy Perspectives, volume 10, number 15:
- The European dronescape needs to reflect how drone utility – especially tactical armed drones and drone scouts – has been evolving in Ukraine now.