dronescape
dronescape noun: a soundscape or acoustic environment consisting of repetitive droning noises.
Noun
dronescape (plural dronescapes)
- A soundscape or acoustic environment consisting of repetitive droning noises.
- 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.2008, David Sheppard, On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno, London: Orion Books, →ISBN, pages 355–356
- 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.2010, Will Romano, Mountains Come Out of the Sky: An Illustrated History of Prog Rock, Milwaukee, W.I.: Backbeat Books, →ISBN, page 190
- A landscape as viewed or photographed by a drone.
- (see title)2017, Ayperi Karabuda Ecer, Dronescapes: The New Aerial Photography
- 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 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)...
- A region that is under the influence of patrolling drones or the people and technologies that make up those patrols.
- In Australia, in addition to the AFP, state police departments have entered the dronescape.2015 Winter, Geoff Coliandris Coliandris, “Is anyone remotely interested?: The rise of the police drone”, in Australasian Policing, volume 7, number 1
- 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...2015, Mark B. Salter, Making Things International 1: Circuits and Motion
Examples of dronescape in a sentence
- Branch held her pinging watch alarm up to the microphones, kicked her floor tambourine, and the band collectively developed a dronescape.2021 December 14, Martin Longley, “Jaimie Branch gets Enjoy Jazz jumping”, in Jazzwise, London: Jazzwise Publications Limited, →ISSN...
- New mobility technologies can also emphasize traditional scenic beauty in cities, a good example of this being the ubiquitous dronescape photography and video.2022, S Lehtinen, “Urban Aesthetics and Technology”, in Shannon Vallor, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology, page 460:
- The European dronescape needs to reflect how drone utility – especially tactical armed drones and drone scouts – has been evolving in Ukraine now.2022, Dominika Kunertova, “The Ukraine Drone Effect on European Militaries”, in CSS Policy Perspectives, volume 10, number 15:
Forms of dronescape
| plural | dronescapes |
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Origin of dronescape
From drone + -scape.
Questions about dronescape
- What does dronescape mean?
- Dronescape means a soundscape or acoustic environment consisting of repetitive droning noises.
- How do you use dronescape in a sentence?
- Branch held her pinging watch alarm up to the microphones, kicked her floor tambourine, and the band collectively developed a dronescape.
- What part of speech is dronescape?
- Dronescape is a noun.
- What is the plural of dronescape?
- The plural of dronescape is dronescapes.
Words near dronescape in the dictionary
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