Our immediate concern is the Canadian soundscape - past, present and future. Later we shall extend our studies to include the sound of the world environment, so that trends can be noted, differences compared and salient features documented. It is time that acoustic design be applied to the environment as a whole. To this end, the public must be stimulated to listen to and make critical judgments about the sounds to which it is exposed, or which it directly or indirectly produces. This serves only to increase the problem of the proliferation of such sounds.
Noise pollution is the direct result.
The project combines the musician's aesthetic with many functional activities, which include aspects of architecture, psychology, acoustical engineering, urban geography, communications and many other disciplines. Much of our work has not yet been attempted on any systematic scale, and our efforts for the forseeable future will be to lay the ground-work for what is in effect a new field of studies which might be called Acoustic Design, or even Acoustic Ecology. Our aim is to provide coherent facts by which decisions can be made not only to control, but also to compose the acoustic environments of the future. Howard Broomfield Lorraine Cushing Bruce Davis Colin Miles J. J. Becker, Legal Advisor to World Soundscape Project heading at top Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison have been active in the field of Ecological Art as artists and conceptual designers for 25 years. The Fifth Lagoon - From Salton Sea to the Gulf 1975 to Future Gardens.