-Stories happen in a time and place, and these parameters are characterised by their acoustic environments or soundscapes.
-A soundscape is composed of several types of sounds: keynote sounds, signals, soundmarks, and archetypal sounds.
-The KEYNOTE is equivalent to the tonal centre in music in that it represents the anchor and reference point to all other sound. Indispensable to the environment, it serves as the ground for the figure.
- The SIGNAL is considered the figure or foreground sound to be consciously heard. These include sounds that demand attention, like sirens, whistles etc. which can also transmit more complex messages like the number of bell chimes in a clock tower.
-A SOUNDMARK establishes a particular place, as does a landmark, possessing some unique quality for only that location
-ARCHETYPAL sounds stir out ancestral memories, bringing us into an environment through a universal emotional reaction.
-The natural soundscape can create not only a wide range of emotional spaces, it can also link with our human environments through analogy or simply because of our tendency to seek meaning in all stimuli.
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