Abstract
Picture postcards are partly responsible for the visual relationship we still have with urban places today. They used to fix images of villages and cities and draw our attention to what can be seen. Cities are, however, places that can also be experienced and described in aural terms...
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Picture postcards are partly responsible for the visual relationship we still have with urban places today
With an academic background in music and communication, Hildegard Westerkamp is a composer, radio artist and sound ecologist. She was born in Germany, but has been based in Canada since 1968. As a researcher she participated in the “World Soundscape Project” team, which was coordinated by R
In the mid-1970s, she led the “Noise Abatement Project” of the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC) in Vancouver, and a few years later created her pioneering radio programme Soundwalking on Vancouver Co-operative Radio
Summary
Picture postcards are partly responsible for the visual relationship we still have with urban places today. It can be noticeably uncomfortable to listen to the soundscape if a soundwalk leads along a noisy street for a long time.
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