Outdoor Concert Noise: The Kitchener, Ontario Experience

摘要

Outdoor music festivals are socially, culturally and economically important to the communities that host them. However, sound generated by these events, have the potential to disturb surrounding noise-sensitive environs, especially area residents. Sensitivities depend on many factors, including but not limited to duration, audibility of the event, type of music, and even non-acoustic associations of the concert and duration. Truly, one person's music can be another person's noise. The challenge facing municipalities and promotors holding these events, is to provide sufficiently high-level sound reinforcement to meet patron audio quality expectations while keeping off-site sound levels sufficiently low, to avoid disturbing surrounding communities.