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ABSTRACT:
Given the multi-sensory nature of urban soundscapes, researchers who aim to study them must deal with a large and varied amount of data in order to fully characterise them. To better understand how people actually perceive their urban sound environments, we must conduct large scale in-situ surveys and pair these with techniques like ambisonic audio recordings, 360 degree video, calibrated SLM measurements, and weather data. We have developed a protocol for carrying out these surveys which enables an individual’s sound exposure to be directly compared to their soundscape perception. We have put this protocol into practice to create a large-scale, international database which includes more than 2,500 surveys spanning 8 cities across Europe and China. In this presentation I will discuss how we go about measuring urban soundscapes, the equipment we use to characterise their environment, and how we can reproduce and analyse the primary aspects of the soundscapes within a lab setting.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Andrew is a PhD student in the Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering at University College London (UCL), where he works on the Soundscape Indices research team whose goal is to create a new metric for assessing sound environments based on people's perception. There his research focusses on creating computational models for predicting soundscape assessment in urban public spaces, making use of cutting edge acoustics analysis and machine learning methods. Before moving into research, Andrew worked as an environmental and architectural acoustics consultant with Newson Brown Acoustics in Los Angeles and until recently was the world's first (as far as he knows) Soundscape Consultant at Hoare Lea in London. You can hear more from Andrew on his podcast The Rest Is Just Noise where he and his co-hosts speak to experts on all things to do with sound and cities.
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