Meaning of dronescape | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A soundscape or acoustic environment consisting of repetitive droning noises.
2. A landscape as viewed or photographed by a drone.
3. A region that is under the influence of patrolling drones or the people and technologies that make up those patrols.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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?"”

“Branch held her pinging watch alarm up to the microphones, kicked her floor tambourine, and the band collectively developed a dronescape.”

“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.”

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“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.”

“New mobility technologies can also emphasize traditional scenic beauty in cities, a good example of this being the ubiquitous dronescape photography and video.”

“In Australia, in addition to the AFP, state police departments have entered the dronescape.”

“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.”

“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).”

“The European dronescape needs to reflect how drone utility – especially tactical armed drones and drone scouts – has been evolving in Ukraine now.”

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