Category: sonic urbanism

The military is currently developing models for calculating scattering in urban sound propagation: “Future US Army ground sensors in urban terrain will process acoustic signals to detect, classify, and locate sources of interest. Optimal processing will require understanding of the effects of the urban infrastructure on sound propagation. These include multi-path phenomena that will complicate…

Michael Snows classic (seen on ubuweb) contains a lot of what stadtmusik is about … note the similarities to the ending of Antonioni’s younger film “the passenger”