Davies, William J. and Adams, Mags D. and Bruce, Neil S. and Cain, Rebecca and Carlyle, Angus and Cusack, Peter and Hall, Deborah A. and Hume, Ken I. and Irwin, Amy and Jennings, Paul and Marselle, Melissa and Plack, Christopher J. and Poxon, John (2013) Perception of soundscapes:an interdisciplinary approach. Applied Acoustics, 74 (2). pp. 224-231. ISSN 0003-682X
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This paper takes an overall view of findings from the Positive Soundscape Project, a large inter-disciplinary soundscapes study. Qualitative fieldwork (soundwalks and focus groups) have found that soundscape perception is influenced by cognitive effects such as the meaning of a soundscape and its components, and how information is conveyed by a soundscape, for example on the behaviour of people within the soundscape. Three significant clusters were found in the language people use to describe soundscapes: sound sources, sound descriptors and soundscape descriptors. Results from listening tests and soundwalks have been integrated to show that the two principal dimensions of soundscape emotional response seem to be calmness and vibrancy. Further, vibrancy seems to have two aspects: organisation of sounds and changes over time. The possible application of the results to soundscape assessment and design are briefly discussed.