Soundscape Experience from Lüdenscheid Train Station to DIAL Office, Germany

Understanding Urban Soundscape Through Soundwalk Observation: Lüdenscheid Train Station to DIAL Office

A soundwalk is a method of observing and evaluating an environment through listening. This study documents the soundscape experience from Lüdenscheid Train Station to the DIAL Office in Germany, examining transportation noise, urban sound quality, pedestrian experience, and environmental acoustics to better understand how sound influences human perception of urban space.

A soundwalk is a walk with a focus on listening to the environment. The term was first used by members of the World Soundscape Project under the leadership of composer R. Murray Schaferin Vancouver in the 1970s. Schafer was particularly interested in the implications of the changes in soundscapes in industrial societies in children, and children's relationship to the world through sound. He was a proponent of ear-cleaning (cleaning one's ears cognitively), and he saw soundwalking as an important part of this process of re-engaging our aural senses in finding our place in the world.

Soundwalk Ludenscheid Station to DIAL Office, a Lighting Design Simulation Software Company in Ludenscheid, Germany took in July 2019.

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