Ubiquitous Nuisance
Creative Process Journal
A study on the effectiveness of soundwalk as a research tool to discover sources of urban noise in Singapore public parks.
“The soundscape of the world is changing. Modern man is beginning to inhabit a world with an acoustic environment radically different from any he has hitherto known. These new sounds, which differ in quality and intensity from those of the past, have alerted many researchers to the dangers of an indiscriminate and imperialistic spread of more and larger sounds into every corner of man's life. Noise pollution is now a world problem. It would seem that the world soundscape has reached an apex of vulgarity in our time. Many experts have predicted universal deafness as the ultimate consequence unless the problem can be brought quickly under control.”
— R. Murray Schafer, The Soundscape:
Our
Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the
World