Future Soundscapes -- Applying the Soundscape Approach to Drone Noise

 

In this talk Dr. Marc Ciufo Green will give a broad overview of the various approaches to environmental sound monitoring, introducing the Soundscape approach and contrasting this with the prevailing environmental noise approach. He will discuss the initial ideas and taxonomy of R. Murray Schafer, and how this has latterly developed through the work of Axelsson and others to the ISO 12913 standard. He will then give an overview of the aims of project RefMap, and how the team have been utilising the soundscape approach in novel ways to assess the potential impact of drones on urban soundscape perception. These include a series of 'soundwalks', where groups of participants are led in guided listening around areas of interest and their perceptions of the sound scene assessed by questionnaire. He will describe the soundwalk studies done in Salford, Athens, and the Isles of Scilly, and outline the key findings that are emerging from our analysis of this data.