Sound is a memory carrier in places with rich history and culture, which can invoke place memories images. The purpose of this paper to explore the effect soundscape on attachment different types historical blocks. Six blocks Harbin, China, were selected, questionnaire survey was conducted evaluate soundscape. evaluations harmony, quietness nature significantly higher residential than tourism m...

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This paper develops ideas on moving “soundscapes” into the mainstream of activity of environmental noise. Such a move has value in introducing a new dimension aimed at catching political attention and the engagement of other professions in acoustic management of outdoor environments. “Quiet Areas” the EU Directive on Environmental Noise requires “preserving environmental noise quality where it ...

The SoundScape Renderer (SSR) is a versatile tool for realtime spatial audio reproduction, implementing a variety of headphoneand loudspeaker-based methods. Among others this includes Wave Field Synthesis, Higher Order Ambisonics and dynamic binaural synthesis. The SSR is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License. It uses the JACK audio framework and is currently available for...

An article in High Fidelity magazine, entitled “Listening is Believing?” and dated July/August 1953, sets forth the contemporary limits of sound reproduction in the inimitable style of advertisement copy: “Technical electronics can go only so far. The rest of the job must be done by the imaginative mind of the listener. That’s not a platitude; it’s a technical specification” (Campbell 1953, 28)...

Acousticians have industriously devised and refined metrics for measuring and predicting human responses to environmental noise such as sons, phons, noys, NC, NR, dB(A) dB(C), Leq, Ldn, and when rigorously applied in ISO standards offer effective reproducibility and repeatability, but they fall short when it comes to charting the vicissitudes of everyday listening and the communication of that ...