The tourist experience of built environments has received a lot of attention in tourism marketing and management research. Several studies have shown that the environmental qualities of a place can contribute to its aesthetic appreciation and overall expectation of tourists. Such aesthetic qualities, such as scenery and soundscapes, should thus be regarded as key components of tourists’ satisfa...

Beyond doubt, soundscaping is on the rise. Soundscape investigations are increasingly performed and soundscape research takes place extensively in recent years. Unfortunately, there is little agreement about adequate measurement procedures, reporting requirements and soundscape indicators. Although the general openness, interdisciplinary roots and multi-dimensionality of the soundscape approach...

Soundscape composition in improvisation and performance contexts involves many processes that can become overwhelming for a performer, impacting on the quality of the composition. One important task is evaluating the mood of a composition for evoking accurate associations and memories of a soundscape. We present a new system called Impress that uses supervised machine learning for the acquisiti...

Urban acoustic environments consist of various sound sources including traffic noise, human-generated sounds, and natural sounds that affect the soundscape perception of a given location. However, these sound sources are indistinguishable by noise maps that are based on sound pressure levels. Hence, soundscape maps based on the perception of sounds are necessary to describe an acoustic environm...

With the tourism development of Historical Areas in Beijing,the soundscape of Historical Areas has changed dramatically. Whether the new soundscape of Historical Areas created by tourism could highlight Beijing’s traditional culture and history,and whether the new soundscape could convey true meaning of Historical Areas to visitors and give them good tourism satisfaction,are both key issues to ...

In this paper, we suggest a conceptual model of a Web application framework for the composition and documentation of soundscape and introduce corresponding prototype projects, SeoulSoundMap and SoundScape Composer. We also survey the current Web-based sound projects in terms of soundscape documentation.

1 The aim of this review was to investigate existing research into soundscape concepts and to produce recommendations for future research into the practical identification, management and enhancement of soundscapes in urban areas. 2 Existing research on soundscapes was investigated using four methods: i. a survey of more than 500 papers in the academic literature, ii. an analysis of 27 case stu...

This paper discusses how expectation and experience form a contributory factor in the perception of soundscapes. The research used fieldwork carried out in London and Manchester, and also a soundscape simulator in a laboratory. Through the use of an enhanced version of soundwalking, respondents are led on a walk around an urban space focusing on the soundscape, whilst answering questions in a s...

In this paper we discuss our efforts in Soundscape Information Retrieval (SIR). Computational soundscape analysis is a key research component in the Citygram Project which is built on a cyber-physical system that includes a scalable robust sensor network, remote sensing devices (RSD), spatio-acoustic visualization formats, as well as software tools for composition and sonification. By combining...

“I call architecture frozen music” a quote by Johan Wolfgan von Goethe. It seems that his description of architecture will not be this much long lasting. Since many architectural structures now are considered soniferous. In an approach to rational the thinking of positive soundscape and move onwards in terms of systematic decision making, and creating tools for more creative planning techniques...