Soundscape generally refers to the sonic environment. The study of soundscape is significant to improve the quality of the environment, enhance the function of a place and promote a healthy and quality life as well as for the understanding of cultures. Given approximately half a century of scholarly studies on soundscape, the purpose of this conceptual paper is to present a narrative review of the literature on its definitions, methods, fields and space types from various disciplines to provide an overview and reference to novice soundscape researchers. As it is a wide-ranging field, soundscape study inherently encompasses research from multiple disciplines and mostly necessitates cross-disciplinary approaches. Among the diversity with different emphases on research frameworks and methodologies, soundscape research usually incorporates the three elements of acoustic properties, perception and place. The study can be for documentation, description, management and/or creation of soundscape. Some of the fields of soundscape study involve acoustic ecology, acoustemology, ecomusicology, acoustic engineering, artistic creativity or wellbeing. Data were usually collected through audio recordings, measurements of sound levels, soundwalks, questionnaires and interviews. Soundscape research has been increasing in America and European countries and can potentially be further expanded on different distinctive sound environments, ecosystems and sociocultural lifestyles.
Cultural inheritance and innovation is an important measure to enhance the vitality of traditional culture and realize the sharing of national culture. Mongolian folk music, as an important part of Chinese cultural resources, plays an irreplaceable role in inheriting Mongolian culture. How to better inherit the music culture of ethnic minorities has been a hot topic in the music education circle in recent years. However, when we focus on the campus inheritance of ethnic minority music, we have to pay attention to the original living space of ethnic minority music and its unique local inheritance method. What is the relationship between them? What are the similarities and differences? The investigation of the relationship between the two is an indispensable content for exploring the inheritance of minority music. This paper aims to study the innovation of the inheritance path of Mongolian folk song music culture, endow Mongolian folk song music with a new era connotation in the new era, and let the folk song music culture be inherited and revitalized in the in-depth contact with the masses. This paper proposes a method to study user needs with the help of dissemination big data, identify malicious traffic with the help of the Internet of Things, find the most touching music and cultural elements of users, innovate and integrate the Mongolian nation, avoid malicious traffic from invading Mongolian folk songs, and enhance the attractiveness of Mongolian folk songs. Experiments have shown that Mongolian folk songs have a strong appeal, and the participation rate of young people in Mongolian folk songs has increased by 20%.
Translation of perceptual descriptors such as the perceived affective quality attributes in the soundscape standard (ISO/TS 12913-2:2018) is an inherently intricate task, especially if the target language is used in multiple countries. Despite geographical proximity and a shared language of Bahasa Melayu (Standard Malay), differences in culture and language education policies between Singapore and Malaysia could invoke peculiarities in the affective appraisal of sounds. To generate provisional translations of the eight perceived affective attributeseventful, vibrant, pleasant, calm, uneventful, monotonous, annoying, and chaotic -into Bahasa Melayu that is applicable in both Singapore and Malaysia, a binational expert-led approach supplemented by a quantitative evaluation framework was adopted. A set of preliminary translation candidates were developed via a four-stage process, firstly by a qualified translator, which was then vetted by linguistics experts, followed by examination via an experiential evaluation, and finally reviewed by the core research team. A total of 66 participants were then recruited cross-nationally to quantitatively evaluate the preliminary translation candidates. Of the eight attributes, cross-national differences were observed only in the translation of annoying. For instance, menjengkelkan was found to be significantly less understood in Singapore than in Malaysia, as well as less understandable than membingitkan within Singapore. Results of the quantitative evaluation also revealed the imperfect nature of foreign language translations for perceptual descriptors, which suggests a possibility for exploring corrective measures.
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