The record's soundscape is rooted in electronic beats and synth sounds, fleshed out with organic string, horn and piano arrangements.

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Marianne Elliott's direction and Bunny Christie's graph-paper design, the great lighting, projections and soundscape are all beyond praise.

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Designing the soundscape for NatureUX also posed problems of its own.

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"Impossible Broadcasting" is Trans-Global's version of a two-way transistor radio tuned into the human experience and transmitting a sometimes unexpected soundscape to and from a brave new world.

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There's a gallery below if you'd care to take a closer look, and do jump past the break as well -- that's where you'll find our hands-on video, with a lively Manhattan soundscape to boot.

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That said, there are plenty of grandly rocking moments, well suited for this summer's many outdoor festivals: The slow-building jam of "World Sick" begins with a moody electronic soundscape and a clean groove, but climaxes with blissful orchestrated cacophony.

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The objectives are to quantify the ocean soundscape on global scales, determine behavioral change thresholds of various species, and examine the functional relationship between sound and the viability of key marine organisms, at an individual scale, a species scale and the ecosystem level.

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An experiment at a primary school in Liverpool - run by "sonic branding" company Condiment Junkie, Glyndwr University and architects Nightingale Associates - found that playing pupils a soundscape of birdsong and other natural sounds made them more alert and better able to concentrate after their lunch break.

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