Sonic Rupture: A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design

Sonic Rupture makes a significant contribution to the discipline of urban soundscape design. While urban soundscape design is often considered from the perspective of the negative health effects of noise, this book argues for a perspective that is based on the relationships between creative sound practitioners, urban dwellers and urban soundscapes.

Urban sounds are considered as both a political and mythopoetic medium that tends towards the homogenization of sound environments and listening experiences. In response, the book presents multiple soundscape design approaches encapsulated by an 'ecological model of urban soundscape design', which aims to diversify experiences and sound environments in urban spaces. Sonic Rupture provides sound students, other sound professionals and the interested public with a unique perspective of urban soundscapes.