Soundscape case study: acoustics, ecology and its anthropological sense

Abstract

Base on six soundscape investigation case studies in some small urban or historical areas, included the South Putuo Temple of Xiamen city in 2006, the downtown of Kashkar city in 2006, the local worship music performing area of South Gaoluo village in 2007, the Nanxiangkou local music performing area in Hebei University of Technology Gymnasium of ShijiaZhuang city in 2007, the downtown riverside of Liuzhou city in 2010, the local worship and music performing areas of Qianjuntai village and Zhuanghu village of Beijing city in 2011, a certain relationship analysis between the acoustical parameters and its audience's behavior or subjective assessment is put forward in this paper. Due to the two-dimensional (Leq and the subjective assessments) fuzzy clustering or curve fitting, it shows that the sound ecology would have a critical connection to the anthropological sense, which means some keynotes sound and soundmarks must be keep constantly during the soundscape design or the urban development. Furthermore, a rough concept of sound history and the constant of keynotes and soundmarks in the view of soundscape are also discussed in this paper.