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We did it! on April 24


Sound Around Town is a public science project about human perceptions of outdoor
acoustic environments and how soundscapes affect our wellbeing.

Sound Around Town is a public science project about human perceptions of outdoor
acoustic environments and how soundscapes affect our wellbeing.

PARTICIPATE / INSTRUCTIONS

TERMINOLOGY

WHAT IS NOISE?

INSTRUCTIONS

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Participation in Sound Around Town includes the following simple steps:

1. Choose an outdoor place to listen

2. Share the location of your phone or provide other details about your location

3. Carry out a 5-min Listening Session, noting the source of each sound you hear

4. Rate each sound by loudness, pleasantness, and how often it occurred

5. Play a 1-min Memory Game

6. Receive a visualization of your soundscape to share with friends

7. Consider doing more, including:
Report on birds
Report on decibel levels
Report on light pollution (nighttime only)
Report on your feelings about the site


We ask participants to carry out at least THREE listening sessions per location.
Each listening session should take place outside. We ask participants to share
demographic details only once, and share their details about the place of the
listening session only once per location. We ask participants to use the same
name and email each time they come to the webapp so that we can link listening
sessions together.

CLICK TO PARTICIPATE



OR SCAN THE QR CODE

SOME TERMINOLOGY TO KNOW

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A soundscape ecologist named Bernie Krause defined sources of sound into three
main categories which we use (slightly modified) for Sound Around Town. Each
word ends with ‘-phony’ (like symphony) which means sound.

Biophony

Bio means life, so Biophony refers to all non-human biological sources of sound,
such as birds and frogs. We include domesticated animals in this category, such
as dogs and cows, even though Krause didn’t.

Geophony

Geo means Earth, so Geophony refers to sounds generated by non-biological
natural sources such as wind and rain.

Anthrophony

Anthro means human, so Anthrophony refers to signature sounds generated by
humans. These are so abundant that we created three sub-categories.
Transportation sounds include things like cars, planes, and trains. Mechanical
sounds include things like A/C units, lawn care, and construction. Social sounds
include things like church bells, sirens, doors closing, and people talking.

WHAT IS NOISE?


Noise refers to unwanted sounds in the acoustic environment, and isn't
necessarily loud and might vary with whether the source is natural or
anthropogenic. Soundscapes refer to human perceptions of their acoustic
environment.

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