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n. (plural of environment English)
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Environments is the first part in a series of planned releases by The Future Sound of London over 2007/2008 via digital download and then CD.
Environments is a series of LPs, cassettes, 8-Track cartridges and CDs created by producer and sound recordist Irv Teibel (1938-2010) for Syntonic Research Inc. between 1969 and 1979. The series consists of recordings of natural sounds such as a seashore with crashing waves or a thunderstorm with falling rain, without musical accompaniment. The series helped ignite a worldwide interest in field recordings which resulted in many imitations being released throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s both with, and without, music (i.e.: Moods, Solitudes, Echoes of Nature, Nature Recordings, Gentle Persuasion: The Sounds of Nature, The Sounds of Nature (by Joe Baker), Magic Moods, etc.).
Usage examples of "environments".
This idea lay behind the experimental programme begun in the late 1950s by the psychologist Mark Rosenzweig, biochemist Ed Bennett and anatomist Marian Diamond in Berkeley, California, to study the effects of different rearing environments on the brain structures of young rats.
The visual system is an attractive model because it is relatively easy to manipulate - animals can be reared in the dark or in environments with restricted illumination much more readily than they can be raised in a sound- or smell-proof environment.
The founder of the team which began this work has reviewed its thirty-year history: see Renner, M J, and Rosenzweig, M R Enriched and Impoverished Environments, Springer, 1987.
Being man-made, they would not last forever, but as long as the sun continued to shine, they were exceedingly stable environments, especially compared to the permanent energy crisis on Earth.
Such birds as starlings, which mimic many sounds from their environments, have been heard sounding off like factory sirens, ice-cream van signals or even police cars in a hurry.