Soundscape and community noise –where we are

摘要

It’s been more than 12 years that “Soundscape” came into “Community Noise” The soundscape concept was introduced as a scope to rethink the evaluation of “noise” and its effects. The challenge was to cons ider the limits of acoustic measurements and to account for its cultural dimension introduced by Schafer’s neologism and research. Soundscape suggests to explore noise in its complexity and its ambivalence and its approach towards sound to consider the conditions and purposes of its production, perception, and evaluation, to understand evaluation of noise/ sound as an holistic approach. To discuss the contribution of Soundscape research into the area of Community noise research means to focus on the meaning of sounds and its implicit assessments to contribute to the understanding that the evaluation through perceptual effects is a key issue. This paper will give results of the current status mainly related to the Soundscape Symposium in Berlin in January 2009 and to the workshops at former and recent ASA meetings.