The Positive Soundscape Project: A re-evaluation of environmental sound

Positive Soundscape项目：对环境声音的重新评估在声学界，环境中的声音，特别是其他人发出的声音，绝大多数都被认为是负面的，既有干扰性又不受欢迎。传统工程声学对降低噪声水平的强烈关注忽略了表征我们周围声景积极方面的许多可能性。过去，主要是艺术家和社会科学家对声景的理想方面进行了研究。这项工作对定量工程声学的影响很小，然而，也许是因为不同学科之间的沟通障碍，这个项目背后的团队来自非常广泛的学科/社会科学，生理声学，声音艺术，声学生态学，心理声学，产品感知和室内声学。他们将运用自己丰富的经验，从多个方面调查音景，并产生一个比迄今为止所取得的更细致入微和完整的听众反应画面。该项目的目标是：（1）承认积极的音景的相关性，摆脱对消极噪音的关注，并确定一种方法，使积极的音景概念能够有效地纳入规划;（2）评价声/声信号之间的关系。听觉环境以及生活在其中的人们的反应和行为特征。所使用的方法将是强烈的跨学科，从声音艺术的见解，访谈和声音漫步，以及对听众的实验室实验，都被用来提供一个更好的解释之间的关系，声音景观和那些在它的感知。积极的声音景观项目是不寻常的几个原因。一个是不同学科互相帮助的方式。例如，公众对艺术项目的反应将有助于生成设计科学实验室实验的数据。另一方面，艺术家们将把科学成果“翻译”成创造性的人工制品。另一个新颖的方面是在整个项目中与公众的互动：人们将在真实的音景中进行声音漫步，被邀请在网上玩虚拟的音景，被要求告诉规划者他们对当地音景的感受，甚至在听一个音景等级的时候敢于接受大脑扫描。该项目的成果将包括测量音景感知的新科学方法，为城市规划者提供建议和帮助，一个新的大型声景艺术展览，声景广播节目，以及一个供任何人玩的声景音序器玩具，以更好地了解他们的听觉环境。由于积极的声景项目从2006年10月到2010年3月运行，项目网站将定期更新，可通过www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk获得

The Positive Soundscape Project: A re-evaluation of environmental soundIn the acoustics community, sound in the environment, especially that made by other people, has overwhelmingly been considered in negative terms, as both intrusive and undesirable. The strong focus of traditional engineering acoustics on reducing noise level ignores the many possibilities for characterising positive aspects of the soundscapes around us. Desirable aspects of the soundscape have been investigated in the past, mainly by artists and social scientists. This work has had little impact on quantitative engineering acoustics, however, perhaps because of barriers to communication across different disciplines.The team behind this project come from a very wide range of disciplines / social science, physiological acoustics, sound art, acoustic ecology, psychoacoustics, product perception and room acoustics. They will apply their breadth of experience to investigate soundscapes from many aspects and produce a more nuanced and complete picture of listener response than has so far been achieved. The aims of the project are: (1) To acknowledge the relevance of positive soundscapes, to move away from a focus on negative noise and to identify a means whereby the concept of positive soundscapes can effectively be incorporated into planning; and (2) The evaluation of the relationship between the acoustic/auditory environment and the responses and behavioural characteristics of people living within it. The methods used will be strongly interdisciplinary, with insights from sonic art, interviews and sound walks, as well as laboratory experiments on listeners all being used to provide a better account of the relationship between the soundscape and the perceptions of those within it. The positive soundscape project is unusual for several reasons. One is the way in which the different disciplines will help each other. For example, public response to the art projects will help generate data for designing the scientific lab experiments. On the other hand, the artists will take the scientific results and 'translate' them into creative artefacts. Another novel aspect is engagement with the public throughout the project: people will be taken on sound walks through real soundscapes, invited to play with virtual ones on the web, asked to tell planners how they feel about their local soundscape and even dared to have their brain scanned while listening to a scale of soundscapes.The outputs from the project will include new scientific methods for measuring soundscape perception, advice and help for urban planners, a major new exhibition of soundscape art, soundscape radio programmes, and a soundscape sequencer toy for anyone to play with and gain a greater understanding of their aural environment. As the positive soundscape project runs its course from October 2006 to March 2010, regular updates will be available from the project website, available through www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk