Amenity and the future of design in acoustics
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1995
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Fletcher, Neville H.
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Kyushu University Press
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Sound and light are our two most sophisticated and subtle media of communication. The acoustic
environment is largely public - sound is widely propagated and affects many people-while the visual
environment is more easily controlled. The problem of design in acoustics is thus twofold - to protect
the individual from unwanted sound, and to allow at the same time the greatest possible freedom to
listen and to create new sounds. While passive noise control is effective in many cases, there are many
future opportunities for the application of active noise control techniques to produce a satisfactory
collective, or personal, acoustic environment. When a personal acoustic space has been achieve, there
are then opportunities to decorate that space with sound - either natural sound or sound specially
shythesised for the purpose - and to connect it to the acoustic spaces of other people. The ways in
which these objectives can be achieved using present techniques, and the new ways in which they might
be achieved in the future, are discussed, with particular reference to music, speech and noise.
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Design of amenity : selected papers of International Symposium
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