Aural Experience and Soundscape Management [Hardcover]

1. Exploring the Soundscape 2. Impact and Control of Environmental Noise 3. Marine Soundscape 4. Audio Management in Tourism 5. Streaming Services: Revolutionizing Music Management 6. Shape of Sound: omnee.m

In an interdisciplinary approach that integrates three scientific fieldstechnical, social, and humanitiesthe challenges of noise control from the perspective of acoustic ecology are defined. The concept of acoustic ecology is applied to evoke sound and music management and design solutions for the benefit of well-being.

Since technological progress is characterized by the dual effects, positive and negative, it is precisely by sustaining the balance between such binaries that ecologically responsible resource management is restored as a solution for excessive human impact on the environment. Sound and music became relevant from the perspective of management, within the meaning of controlling their negative effects on human beings and their environment as well as utilizing them for meeting human needs. This book integrates the fields of technology, humanities, and social sciences and defines the challenges of noise control from the perspective of acoustic ecology. It discusses the concept of acoustic ecology applied to evoke sound and music management and design solutions for well-being. It will be equally useful for students of electrical engineering, music, and economics; equally challenging to those with a particular prior knowledge and practice; and as much as comprehensive and stimulative for those who are barely embarking upon a new adventure.

?Bringing fresh perspectives to the now well-established field of sensory studies, this book dives into various sounds, voices, musics, and noises that create unique, yet under-researched landscapes of our experience of the world. Although sound seems less fatal than image, it is no less present in our lives. And while it is lóÈ