EP 22: Urban Soundscapes and Active Listening

As America develops, how often do you pause to listen? To the places undergoing active change? Or those preserved in time? To the sounds that truly identify a location, whether natural or developed? On this episode -- headphones required this time! -- we talk about the connections and influences we can develop with specific places when we pause to take them for what they are in the moment, via active listening. Many have taken to field recording, to capture what's around them for analysis -- in some cases highly scientific, and influential of public policy. Listen in. Show notes: Anne Guthrie's Urban Omnibus piece with field recordings, "Tune In: Soundscapes of New York" - http://urbanomnibus.net/2015/05/tune-in-soundscapes-of-new-york/ Anne Guthrie, Arup - http://thoughts.arup.com/post/userposts/212 Donald Best, Raleigh Recording Co. field recordings - https://soundcloud.com/raleighrecordingco USDOT noise map - https://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/press_releases/bts015_17 SONYC - https://wp.nyu.edu/sonyc/ New York Times, "To Create a Quieter City, They're Recording the Sounds of New York" - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/nyregion/to-create-a-quieter-city-theyre-recording-the-sounds-of-new-york.html?_r=2 Noisy ice-cream truck? - http://www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/service/3019/noise-from-ice-cream-truck