Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology
Soundscape is a place for listening, dialogue, and debate. This international peer-reviewed journal is available to all WFAE members and scholars of the global acoustic ecology community.  

Soundscape has shifted from annual publication to a digital journal and will relaunch in 2023. The journal has a focus on special editions revolving around events and themes and welcomes proposals from guest editors.  ​Please visit this page to submit a proposal for special editions 2023-2024, we are also calling for new members of the Soundscape Editorial Board. 

Special editions of Soundscape include 6-8 papers and comprise of the following: 
  • Full papers: 5000-7000 words 
  • Short papers: 2000-3000 words 
  • Reviews (books, albums, events): 1000-2000 words 
Paper templates are provided to accepted authors, embedded media (audio, images and video) is encouraged, preferred referencing style is APA. ​

​We invite your comments, questions, and critical voices; please contact soundscape-editor@wfae.net.
We archive current and previous editions of the Journal online in PDF format. View featured issues below and download the full Soundscape journal database at the bottom of this page.  

Featured Publications, Volume 17 and 18, 2019

Soundscape Database 

​Volume 16 2017 - Sounds Emergent: Diverse Ecologies 
  • Sounds Emergent: Diverse Ecologies II
  • A Sounding Happens: Pauline Oliveros, Expanded Consciousness, and Healing
  • Haiku for Pauline, as Pauline
  • Three Recent Moments with Pauline Oliveros
  • THIS DAY/THAT DAY
  • Resonance of Resistance
  • Augmenting Urban Space with Environmental Soundscapes and Mobile Technologies ​
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Volume 15, Number 1 Fall/Winter 2016 - Sounds Emergent: Diverse Ecologies
  • Sounds Emergent: Diverse Ecologies
  • HVAC, or Political Ecology as Facts of Pressure
  • Earworms
  • Currently, Eight Hundred Landscapes
  • Book Review: Sonic Rupture
  • Field Research: Baby, It's Cold Outside!
  • A Tribute to Jed Speare, Composer and Phonographer (1954-2016)



Volume 14, Number 1 Winter/Spring 2014-2015 - Canadian Perspectives
  • Listening as Reciprocity:  Heidegger’s Appropriation in Being-Time
  • Toward a Sound of Place: Sound, Mapping and Aural Character
  • Cryophonics: Re-Performing the Ice Songs of the Canadian Sub-Arctic
  • The Bell Tower of False Creek: Unsettling the Soundscape of Vancouver’s Burrard Bridge
  • Sound in the Land - Music & the Environment: A Festival Celebrating the Earth

Volume 13, Number 1 Winter/Spring 2013-2014 - Music and Ecologies Of Sound

  • The Ecology of Sound as Experience
  • Sound Object? Sound Event! Ideologies of Sound and the Biopolitics of Music
  • Wayback Sound Machine: Sound Through Time, Space and Place
  • Machine Listening to Soundscapes: Playful Discovery of Sound Languages

Volume 12, Number 1 Winter/Spring 2012-2013 - The Global Composition

  • Acoustic Ecology Considered as a The Early Days and the Future
  • Insights into the Global Composition - Taken at Three Stricken Places in Japan
  • What Should the Soundscape Community Do When Listening to the Soundscapes of Fukushima?
  • Interferences Between Acoustic Perspectives in Enclosed Social Environments of Istanbul
  • GPS Sound Walks, Ecotones and Edge Species; Experiencing Sound within Teri Rueb's Mobile Metaphor
  • Sonic Ecologies: Exploring the Agency of Soundscapes in Ecological Crisis
Volume 11, Number 1 Fall/Winter 2011 - Crossing Listening Paths
  • Exploring Balance & Focus in Acoustic Ecology
  • The Listening Workshop: Nature notes from WFAE 2011, Corfu
  • Schafer's and McLuhan's Listening Paths - Convergences, Crossings & Diversions
  • Biophilic Soundscape Design in the Second Order of Nature
  • Revisiting the Vancouver Soundscape Tape Collection: Motives, Intentions, & Practice
  • Soundscape Models & Compositional Strategies in Acousmatic music
  • Towards a Theory of Museological Soundscape Design: Museology as a 'Listening Path'
  • Listening to the Ecosystem of the Turtle: Enabling the disabled to cross the listening paths of acoustic ecology and environmental education
  • Bringing the Sounds Back to Etz Hayyim: An acoustic profile of a resurrected endangered space
  • The Soundscape of Burning Man
  • A Second Life for Sound: Crossing Sonic Paths in Virtual Worlds
  • Automatically Updated Soundmaps as a tool for environmental monitoring: Research in progress
  • In Memory of Iannis Xenakis​

Download the full Soundscape archive HERE – featuring 20 issues from 2000-2016.