In film and media production, ambient sound is a standard term that denotes the site-specific background sound component providing locational atmospheres and spatial information of public places. In this article, the specific role of ambient sound to create the context for the spatial experience in film and media production has been thoroughly examined in the light of Sound Studies. The article investigates the capacity of ambient sounds to sculpt the presence of a site by producing an embodied experience of the site. The article brings in a much-needed focus on the complex relationship between sound and site by examining the spatial environments recorded, mediated, and reconstructed by sound practice. Guided by the production studies of sound, the article draws on the theories of diegesis, mimesis, and presence to reformulate the notion of the soundscape while keeping a conceptual base in phenomenology of sound in analyzing the spatial and atmospheric listening experience. The article cites examples from representative Indian films and few of my own sound artworks as case studies to make critical listening and analysis of the processes through which ambient sound practice enhances the spatial and atmospheric sensations. The article draws insights from prominent sound practitioners in the form of long interviews conducted by me over several years and self-reflective insights on my own work. The practice-led inputs make the empirical basis of the article shedding light on the production processes providing links between certain techniques available to specific phases of sound production and aesthetic principles shaped by the respective phases of practice with ambient sounds. The article locates a distinct shift occurring through these trajectories of sound practice and relates this shift to the recent “spatial turn” in Sound Studies, making valuable contributions to the field interested to inquire about the emerging spatiality and public-ness in sound artworks.

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重建气氛：电影和媒体制作中的环境声音

在电影和媒体制作中，环境声音是一个标准术语，表示特定于场所的背景声音成分，可提供公共场所的位置气氛和空间信息。在本文中，已经根据声音研究彻底研究了环境声音在创造电影和媒体制作中的空间体验环境方面所起的特定作用。本文通过产生现场的体验来研究环境声音雕刻现场的能力。通过检查声音实践记录，介导和重构的空间环境，本文将急需的焦点集中在声音与位置之间的复杂关系上。在声音的制作研究的指导下，本文借鉴了音位，模仿，并重新定义了声景的概念，同时在分析空间和大气听觉体验时保持了声音现象学的概念基础。本文引用了印度代表性电影的例子和我自己的声音作品中的一些作为案例研究，以进行批判性的聆听和分析，从而通过环境声音练习来增强空间和大气感。本文以我多年来进行的长时间访谈和对自己工作的自我反思为形式，从著名的音响从业人员那里获得了见识。以实践为导向的投入使该文章的经验基础成为生产过程的亮点，提供了可用于声音生产的特定阶段的某些技术与由环境声音的各个实践阶段所塑造的美学原理之间的联系。这篇文章找到了通过声音实践的这些轨迹发生的明显变化，并将这种变化与声音研究中最近的“空间转向”相关联，从而为感兴趣的领域提供了宝贵的咨询，以询问声音艺术品中新兴的空间性和公共性。