Prof Bill Davies W.Davies@salford.ac.uk
Professor
The positive soundscape project
Davies, WJ; Adams, MD; Bruce, NS; Cain, R; Carlyle, A; Cusack, P; Hume, KI; Jennings, P; Plack, CJ
Authors
MD Adams
NS Bruce
R Cain
A Carlyle
P Cusack
KI Hume
P Jennings
CJ Plack
Abstract
The Positive Soundscape Project is a multi-disciplinary investigation of soundscape perception which started in October 2006. This paper communicates the aims and design of the project and discusses some early results. The project seeks to develop a rounded view of human perception of soundscapes by combining methods from several disciplines. This will involve a move away from measuring sound just as noise. In this respect artistic and ethnographic conceptions of the soundscape are more advanced than mainstream acoustic ones. (While acoustics is tentatively moving away from LAeq as the sole descriptor, artists have interpreted soundscape perception as multi-modal and multi-dimensional from the beginning.) Thus, the PSP work uses methods from sound art, acoustic ecology and social science as well as techniques from acoustics, psychoacoustics, physiology, neuroimaging and sound quality. The project has an unusual design in that there is a two-way exchange between the different disciplines. For example, an artistically conceived 'soundtoy' will be used to stimulate discussion in social science focus groups and to inspire laboratory psychoacoustic experiments. A pilot investigation of an urban soundscape in the UK has been conducted and preliminary conclusions will be drawn on the benefits and problems of an intensely inter-disciplinary approach.
Citation
Davies, W., Adams, M., Bruce, N., Cain, R., Carlyle, A., Cusack, P., …Plack, C. (2007, September). The positive soundscape project. Presented at 19th International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid
Presentation Conference Type | Other |
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Conference Name | 19th International Congress on Acoustics |
Conference Location | Madrid |
Start Date | Sep 2, 2007 |
End Date | Sep 7, 2007 |
Publication Date | Sep 2, 2007 |
Deposit Date | Nov 20, 2009 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 20, 2009 |
Keywords | soundscape |
Related Public URLs | http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/profiles/davies/ http://www.positivesoundscapes.org/ |
Additional Information | Event Type : Conference |
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