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an international conference on acoustic ecology JUNE 28 - JULY 2 ...and the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE). Additional funding provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Symons ...
www.trentu.ca/soundescape/
THE UK AND IRELAND:
Earshot
will act as a sounding board for regionally related soundscape research
and happenings within the UK & Ireland.
Source: http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/WFAE/journal/scape_2.pdf
Page 6 of 40!
Moooooooooore from that source:
Web Links to Information on Silence and Noise
WFAE website (Silence and Noise) http://interact.uoregon.edu/
MediaLit/FC/readings/topics/silence.html
World Health Organization (WHO):http://www.who.int/peh/
noise/noiseindex.html
European Commission Future Noise Policy, Green Paper:
http://ioa.essex.ac.uk/ioa/europe/noise-gp.html
League of the Hard of Hearing: http://www.lhh.org/noise
Noise Pollution Clearing House: http://www.nonoise.org
Jony is an artist living in North Wales, who has recently been very active creating a sound installation for the Grizedale Forrest in Cumbria (featured in the first issue of Earshot).
We invite your comments and criticism in response
to anything you read in Soundscape, including
other members’ comments, such as those below. Please
send your reactions to: jwfae@sfu.ca
Instead of repeating the known effects, I can refer to the WHO’s
“Guidelines for Community Noise”, which can be downloaded from
the WHO home page <www.who.int/peh/noise/noiseindex.html>.
Another field has been added recently, namely a leisure consumption
which is tending to become a new occupational injury. The
sound level at concerts—and not just pop music and discos—has
become so high that both musicians and listeners are liable to sustain
temporary or permanent hearing damage. We are approaching
the absurd situation where it is considered normal or at least expected
that both audience and musicians should wear yellow ear
plugs for protection.
we have the citizens’ perception of sound
and noise. If you raise this subject, no matter to whom you are
talking, the odds are that before long they will mention some
sound that they can’t stand. Dealing with noise problems for
real would be like opening a Pandora’s box, which may be the
real reason why politicians dare not or cannot address these issues.
(In fact, it affects every citizen).
(3) Lastly, noise abatement always means collisions with economic
interests.
Page 10 out of 40..................
A Frenchman riding a motorbike with no silencer straight
through Paris at 3 o’clock in the morning can wake 250,000 sleeping
people.4 What power! With my machine I can control a quarter
of a million people. I’m the boss.
the big opponents to a healthy acoustic environment
are not individual citizens or even individual nations but neo–liberalism
as an ideology and the globalisation of the economy. Capital
moves where the profits are biggest and where the environmental
stipulations are lowest and cheapest.
Page 11
One of the central ideas in the German philosopher Gernot
Böhme’s “ecological aesthetic of nature” is that the human being, in
relation to the environment, is primarily, not a rational but a corporeal
being—we live in and with nature because air, water and soil
literally pass through our bodies.9 And the same is true of sound!
Silence and the Notion of the Commons
by Dr. Ursula Franklin
(page 14)
http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/WFAE/journal/scape_2.pdf
Living Out Loud
by Vicki Reed
This essay is the first installment in what we hope will be a series of
longer contributions to Soundscape by students and younger people.
It was originally written as a “Noise Pollution Essay” for Acoustic Dimensions
of Communication, CMNS 259, offered through Distance
Education, at Simon Fraser University, , Burnaby, B.C., Canada.
(page 22)
7. Truax, Barry [ed.], 1978, Handbook for Acoustic Ecology, Vancouver:
A.R.C. Publications.
Acoustic Ecologists and Environmental Psychologists:
Working Toward a Quieter and Healthier Soundscape
by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D. (page 24)
Noise Pollution and the Soundscape
Although my work is still centered on noise, more recently, largely
due to the friendships I have made with acoustic ecologists, I feel
strongly that people must be taught to become more aware of the
sounds in their environment. It is not enough to rid the environment
of ear-shattering noises. One must also understand that sounds
can contribute significantly to the enjoyment of life.
Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita, Lehman College of
the City University of New York, author of a book Top of the Class,
chapters in five books, articles in academic journals and writings in
the popular press. She serves on the Board of Directors of New York
City Council on the Environment, consults to League for the Hard of
Hearing, advises anti-noise groups in the United States and abroad,
and is frequently consulted by the media.
Sound Bites
Shrimp Make Big Noise
A group of European researchers says it has an
answer to the underwater drone of snapping
shrimp that can be so intense that submarines
use the cacophony to hide from sonar. The
shrimp make bubbles that collapse with a pop
powerful enough to kill small prey. Huge clusters
composed of tens of thousands of shrimp
can make enough noise “to disturb underwater
communications,” said Detlef Lohse, a physicist
at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.”
From wire services.
EU Study Connects Noise and Heart Disease
German environmental authorities have documented
a greater risk of heart attacks among people exposed to excessive noise, and they are
finding new evidence of noise’s long-suspected
ill effects on sleep and emotional well-being.
Investigation of the lifestyles of German cardiac
patients has shown about a 25% greater
chance of heart attacks among those whose
work or home environments were persistently
exposed to noise above 65 decibels,says
Hartmut Ising, a researcher with the Federal Environmental
Agency's Institute for Water, Soil
and Air Hygiene http://www.umweltbundesamt.
de/uba-info-e/e-fach5.htm. Ising has pioneered
inquiries into the physiological effects of noise
exposure.
An 11-year research project involving more
than 1,000 heart patients found that noise, especially
when it disrupts sleep, produces stress
hormones that accelerate aging and heart disease,
Ising says.
“Governments could actually save money if
they reduced noise in the most affected areas,
but we are a long way from getting politicians
to understand this,” says Hugo Lyse Nielsen of
the Danish Environment and Energy Ministry,
which is coordinating the EU noise policy project.
Eighty million people, or about one in four
EU residents, suffer noise exposure that affects
their job performance, he says, referring to the
first results of the working group's research into
noise hazards.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes
with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown
in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
Here's a preview:
an international conference on acoustic ecology JUNE 28 - JULY 2 ...and the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE). Additional funding provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Symons ...
www.trentu.ca/soundescape/
THE UK AND IRELAND:
Earshot
will act as a sounding board for regionally related soundscape research
and happenings within the UK & Ireland.
Source: http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/WFAE/journal/scape_2.pdf
Page 6 of 40!
Moooooooooore from that source:
Web Links to Information on Silence and Noise
WFAE website (Silence and Noise) http://interact.uoregon.edu/
MediaLit/FC/readings/topics/silence.html
World Health Organization (WHO):http://www.who.int/peh/
noise/noiseindex.html
European Commission Future Noise Policy, Green Paper:
http://ioa.essex.ac.uk/ioa/europe/noise-gp.html
League of the Hard of Hearing: http://www.lhh.org/noise
Noise Pollution Clearing House: http://www.nonoise.org
Jony is an artist living in North Wales, who has recently been very active creating a sound installation for the Grizedale Forrest in Cumbria (featured in the first issue of Earshot).
We invite your comments and criticism in response
to anything you read in Soundscape, including
other members’ comments, such as those below. Please
send your reactions to: jwfae@sfu.ca
Instead of repeating the known effects, I can refer to the WHO’s
“Guidelines for Community Noise”, which can be downloaded from
the WHO home page <www.who.int/peh/noise/noiseindex.html>.
Another field has been added recently, namely a leisure consumption
which is tending to become a new occupational injury. The
sound level at concerts—and not just pop music and discos—has
become so high that both musicians and listeners are liable to sustain
temporary or permanent hearing damage. We are approaching
the absurd situation where it is considered normal or at least expected
that both audience and musicians should wear yellow ear
plugs for protection.
we have the citizens’ perception of sound
and noise. If you raise this subject, no matter to whom you are
talking, the odds are that before long they will mention some
sound that they can’t stand. Dealing with noise problems for
real would be like opening a Pandora’s box, which may be the
real reason why politicians dare not or cannot address these issues.
(In fact, it affects every citizen).
(3) Lastly, noise abatement always means collisions with economic
interests.
Page 10 out of 40..................
A Frenchman riding a motorbike with no silencer straight
through Paris at 3 o’clock in the morning can wake 250,000 sleeping
people.4 What power! With my machine I can control a quarter
of a million people. I’m the boss.
the big opponents to a healthy acoustic environment
are not individual citizens or even individual nations but neo–liberalism
as an ideology and the globalisation of the economy. Capital
moves where the profits are biggest and where the environmental
stipulations are lowest and cheapest.
Page 11
One of the central ideas in the German philosopher Gernot
Böhme’s “ecological aesthetic of nature” is that the human being, in
relation to the environment, is primarily, not a rational but a corporeal
being—we live in and with nature because air, water and soil
literally pass through our bodies.9 And the same is true of sound!
Silence and the Notion of the Commons
by Dr. Ursula Franklin
(page 14)
http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/WFAE/journal/scape_2.pdf
Living Out Loud
by Vicki Reed
This essay is the first installment in what we hope will be a series of
longer contributions to Soundscape by students and younger people.
It was originally written as a “Noise Pollution Essay” for Acoustic Dimensions
of Communication, CMNS 259, offered through Distance
Education, at Simon Fraser University, , Burnaby, B.C., Canada.
(page 22)
7. Truax, Barry [ed.], 1978, Handbook for Acoustic Ecology, Vancouver:
A.R.C. Publications.
Acoustic Ecologists and Environmental Psychologists:
Working Toward a Quieter and Healthier Soundscape
by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D. (page 24)
Noise Pollution and the Soundscape
Although my work is still centered on noise, more recently, largely
due to the friendships I have made with acoustic ecologists, I feel
strongly that people must be taught to become more aware of the
sounds in their environment. It is not enough to rid the environment
of ear-shattering noises. One must also understand that sounds
can contribute significantly to the enjoyment of life.
Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita, Lehman College of
the City University of New York, author of a book Top of the Class,
chapters in five books, articles in academic journals and writings in
the popular press. She serves on the Board of Directors of New York
City Council on the Environment, consults to League for the Hard of
Hearing, advises anti-noise groups in the United States and abroad,
and is frequently consulted by the media.
Sound Bites
Shrimp Make Big Noise
A group of European researchers says it has an
answer to the underwater drone of snapping
shrimp that can be so intense that submarines
use the cacophony to hide from sonar. The
shrimp make bubbles that collapse with a pop
powerful enough to kill small prey. Huge clusters
composed of tens of thousands of shrimp
can make enough noise “to disturb underwater
communications,” said Detlef Lohse, a physicist
at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.”
From wire services.
EU Study Connects Noise and Heart Disease
German environmental authorities have documented
a greater risk of heart attacks among people exposed to excessive noise, and they are
finding new evidence of noise’s long-suspected
ill effects on sleep and emotional well-being.
Investigation of the lifestyles of German cardiac
patients has shown about a 25% greater
chance of heart attacks among those whose
work or home environments were persistently
exposed to noise above 65 decibels,says
Hartmut Ising, a researcher with the Federal Environmental
Agency's Institute for Water, Soil
and Air Hygiene http://www.umweltbundesamt.
de/uba-info-e/e-fach5.htm. Ising has pioneered
inquiries into the physiological effects of noise
exposure.
An 11-year research project involving more
than 1,000 heart patients found that noise, especially
when it disrupts sleep, produces stress
hormones that accelerate aging and heart disease,
Ising says.
“Governments could actually save money if
they reduced noise in the most affected areas,
but we are a long way from getting politicians
to understand this,” says Hugo Lyse Nielsen of
the Danish Environment and Energy Ministry,
which is coordinating the EU noise policy project.
Eighty million people, or about one in four
EU residents, suffer noise exposure that affects
their job performance, he says, referring to the
first results of the working group's research into
noise hazards.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes
with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown
in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle