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English translation: auditory experience(s)/sensations/backdrop

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07:13 Jun 10, 2011

German to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Tourism & Travel / Kunstreisen

German term or phrase: Tonwelten

This is contained within a description of short breaks aimed at art-lovers. I'm not sure that "worlds of sound" really hits the mark. Does anyone have any better suggestions please?

Die Wirkung von Farben und Formen, kombiniert mit neuen Perspektiven und Tonwelten bilden das Grundformat für exklusive Kunstreisen.

Many thanks!

Jeux de Mots KudoZ activity Questions: 85 (3 open) (2 without valid answers) (9 closed without grading) Answers: 876 Germany
Local time: 18:48

English translation:auditory experience(s)/sensations/backdrop

Explanation:
A possibility. Well, 3 or 4 actually!

e.g.
Virtual Reality Resources
The goal is to add the visual experience to the auditory experience.
http://vresources.org/node/3196

Ambient music mimicking sounds of nature serves as an auditory backdrop for exploration.
http://www.vrphobia.com/Clinical/Fears/paindistraction.htm

The result: a pleasant auditory sensation from a band who don't seem to realize quite how good they are.
http://first-avenue.com/event/2011/08/taurus-cd-release-show

What’s the difference between sound and noise? Without messing around with semantics, sound generally is a pleasant auditory sensation. Noise is also an auditory sensation, but it’s usually unpleasant.
http://zentalks.blogspot.com/2006/08/transposing-and-interac...

Strains of contemporary instrumental music provide an auditory backdrop for the meditative activities of worshipers already unfolding at separate stations ...
http://www.fbfi.org/flm-articles/50-the-emerging-church-a-jo...

A mellifluous auditory backdrop, pleasant visual environment, lack of physical threats, and an easy path will combine to provide a walk of true quality.
http://www.wescecil.com/pages/essays/State_of_the_Art-_Walki...

Selected response from:

Colin Rowe
Germany
Local time: 18:48

Grading comment

A belated thank you to all those who helped - auditory and sound experiences were what I went with. Thanks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +2

sound worlds

Stephen Old

auditory environments / acoustic environments

Helen Shiner

the worlds of sound

Thayenga

auditory experience(s)/sensations/backdrop

Colin Rowe

sound worlds

BeaDeer

worlds resounding(music)/worlds of images(sculpture)

Ramey Rieger

4 -1

soundscapes

Darrel Knutson

musical experiences

Lynda Hepburn

artistic environment, changing imagery

anne pincus

sound sensations

phoeberuth

Discussion entries: 8

Answers

7 mins confidence:

sound sensations

Explanation:
just an idea to be getting on with.

phoeberuth
Local time: 18:48
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English

The asker has declined this answer

13 mins confidence:

worlds resounding(music)/worlds of images(sculpture)

Explanation:
I have seen this word used for both areas of art.

Ramey Rieger
Local time: 18:48
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

The asker has declined this answer

15 mins confidence:

musical experiences

Explanation:
Could be an option if it is referring to music! What do the Kunstreisen involve? Is it visits to galleries and attendance at concerts? What countries?

Lynda Hepburn
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:48
Native speaker of:

English

The asker has declined this answer

44 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

sound worlds

Explanation:
I have and heard this term quite often

Stephen Old
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:48
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

The asker has declined this answer

55 mins confidence:

sound worlds

Explanation:
When you are not sure what a certain German phrase means, I would suggest that you look up its use in a real life context elsewhere, on the web, determine what exactly it means in German, then look for the English equivalent and determine when and how exactly it is used (for music, on music related web sites with content originally written in English. If you google for "sound worlds" on the web and in google books (a reliable corpus of the English language in print), you find that this phrase is indeed in use in music. Examples: "sound worlds to discover", "sound worlds in everyday space" etc. (It's interesting to see that in the context of sounds related to a specific place or characteristics of a place, "soundscape" is used: "The soundscapes of rural areas have changed radically over the past century". All examples given here are the result of a search in google books. When unsure whether a phrase is a "legitimate" English phrase, look up who the publisher is.
I hope this helps.

Example sentence(s):

sound worlds to discover; virtual sound worlds; sound worlds in everyday space; specific sound worlds of steam and chiselling

Reference: http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&q=%22sound+worlds...

BeaDeer
Native speaker of:

Slovenian

The asker has declined this answer

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

soundscapes

Explanation:
From Wikipedia: "A soundscape is a sound or combination of sounds that forms or arises from an immersive environment."

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundscape

Darrel Knutson
Germany
Local time: 18:48
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

The asker has declined this answer

1 hr confidence:

auditory experience(s)/sensations/backdrop

Colin Rowe
Germany
Local time: 18:48
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 35

Grading comment

A belated thank you to all those who helped - auditory and sound experiences were what I went with. Thanks!

2 hrs confidence:

artistic environment, changing imagery

Explanation:
I recently translated a text for an artist who used the term 'Klangwelt' to describe a poetic world, in this case of light and shadow. Could it be something similar here?
Two suggestions that might fit in case this is what is meant..

anne pincus
Local time: 18:48
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

The asker has declined this answer

3 hrs confidence:

auditory environments / acoustic environments

Explanation:
Alyce Santoro, inventor of SONIC FABRIC, is an internationally noted conceptual and sound artist with a background in science and scientific illustration. She sees herself as a kind of archivist – a compulsive collector of snippets of the human auditory environment – who incorporates her specimens into her art.
http://www.designtex.com/audible_upholstery_Story.aspx?f=367...

Listening to Noise and Silence engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound. In this original and challenging work, Salomé Voegelin immerses the reader in concepts of listening to sound artwork and the everyday acoustic environment, establishing an aesthetics and philosophy of sound and promoting the notion of a sonic sensibility.
http://www.thewire.co.uk/shop/items/527/

Though I have to say that 'worlds of sound' is perfectly acceptable in many circumstances. What is not clear from the context you have given is the tenor of the text and its intended audience.

Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:48
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 42

The asker has declined this answer

1 day2 hrs confidence:

the worlds of sound

Explanation:
another option.

Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 18:48
Works in field
Native speaker of:

German

The asker has declined this answer

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