General Publications:

• A brief summary of the Positive Soundscapes project is available as a double-sided A4 flyer here (pdf file, 42kb)
• A project newsletter is available. If you would like to receive a printed copy of the newsletter please send your name and email address to the Project Manager, Joanne Leach, at joanneleach@postmaster.co.uk or telephone her on 0161 295 2690. Alternatively, you can download the newsletter by clicking here (pdf file, 1.24mb)
• Regular updates on the project will be given to academics and industry through the meetings of the Noise Futures Network
• The Positive Soundscapes website will be developed and regularly updated to give access to project findings and data as they are produced, will include access to a library of downloadable field recordings and will host creative output, including the soundscape sequencer
• Final results and knowledge to influence soundscape design will be communicated via a Final Project Seminar for planners and policymakers

Publicity:

Articles:

• The Tehran Times, 26 September 2007
• The Observer, 23 of September 2007
• The Guardian, 23 September 2007 
• Vart Land, 2 October 2007 (Norwegian), part 1 and part 2
• US: the University of Salford Staff Newspaper, December 2007, page 5
• The Times Online, 1 October 2007
• Manchester Transmission 08

Blogs:

London Underground Tube Blog

Pretty Goes with Pretty

Ear to the Earth

City of Sound

Two Open Ears blog 1

Two Open Ears blog 2

City of Sound

Moleskine City Blogs

Radio:

• Trevor Cox was interviewed for BBC Radio Manchester on 24th September 2007
• Trevor Cox discussed the Positive Soundscapes project on Radio 3's Nightwaves on 11th April 2007
• Peter Cusack has been interviewed by Trevor Cox for a Radio 4 broadcast later this year. Title, day and time to be announced.
• Bill Davies was interviewed for Good Morning Wales on 24th September 2007
• Bill Davies was interviewed for Radio 4's Costing the Earth on 14th December 2006
• Bill Davies was interviewed for Radio 4's The Sounds of Science on the 24 and 31 October 2007

TV/Video:

• Warwick University's iCast about Positive soundscapes, 2007

Academic Publications:

Because of the wide background of the project team, journal papers for a range of audiences will be written. It is anticipated three conference papers and four papers in international refereed journals will be published, ensuring a broad academic impact.

Journal Papers:

• Coming soon

Journal Other:

• Angus Carlyle conducted an interview With Peter Cusack for Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology (7:2), Fall, 2007

Conference Papers:

• Mags Adams presented a paper at the Beyond Text Visual Anthropology Conference ‘On Soundwalking as Sensory Sociology’ on the 1st of July 2007 (abstract available soon)
• Rebecca Cain presented the attached presentation and conference paper at Internoise 2007 (28-31 August 2007): Cain, R. and Jennings, P. 2007. Developing best practice for lab-based evaluations of urban soundscapes. In: Inter-Noise 2007: The 36th International Congress & Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering. The Istanbul Convention & Exhibition Centre (ICEC), Istanbul, Turkey, August 28-31, 2007 [CD ROM]
• Angus Carlyle presented the paper Deja Entendu: Sound as Near and Far at the Symposium Audio Extranutes: Flux, distance, sociabilite on the 17-18 December 2007 at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Art de Nice Villa Arson
• Bill Davies presented a paper at the 19th International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid, September 2007 (text document, abstract only)

Conference Presentations:

• Angus Carlyle, Peter Cusack and Bill Davies presented Positive Soundscapes at the Sounderspaces Conference, London Zoological Society on the 14 March 2007. The conference was supported by the Mayor of London, EPSRC Noise Futures Network, UK & Ireland Soundscape Community, London Parks and Green Spaces Forum and the Zoological Society of London

• Angus Carlyle presented Designing Public Spaces in Sound at the Design Against Crime / Holborn Gateway Symposium, The Swedenborg Institute, London, on the 17 November 2006

• Bill Davies presented at the Sustainability City Conference, Manchester, 25-26 April 2007 (presentation 500kb)
•  Ken Hulme gave a presentation at the Institute of Acoustics 2008 Spring Conference on the Physiological Responses and Subjective Estimates of Sounds: Initial Results (PowerPoint presentation 400kb)

Conference Other:

• Mags Adams and Gemma Moore are convening a RGS-IBG session: ‘Sustainable urban environments: unraveling the myth of interdisciplinarity’ in August 2007
• Mags Adams has been invited as a panelist at the RGS-IBG session: ‘Ethnographic research methods and policy’ talking about soundwalking in August 2007
• Mags Adams helped organise a seminar as part of the ESRC Seminar Series ‘Sustainable urban environments: rethinking the sensory production of place’ theme ‘Senses and Architecture’ on the 29th of June 2007

• Angus Carlyle convened three sessions (Sound and the Senses 1 – 3) at the Royal Anthropological Institute / Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Beyond Text? Image: Voice: Sound: Object - Synaesthetic and Sensory Practices in Anthropology International Conference at the University of Manchester from the 27 June to the 2 July 2007

• Bill Davies gave a presentation exploring the urban landscape at the Dana Centre, London on the 18th September 2007. An article about this event can be found in the Institute of Physics (IOP) newspaper interactions, in the October 2007 issues, on page 8 

Books:

• Angus Carlyle has edited a new publication - Autumn Leaves: Sound and the Environment in Artistic Practice (2007). Published by Double Entendre.

Book Chapters:

• Angus Carlyle, Like Quails Clucking: Landscape and Positive Soundscapes in eds. Tadahiko Imada, Keiko Torigoe, Kozo Hiramatsu et al. The West Meets the East in Acoustic Ecology, (Japanese Association for Sound Ecology and Hirosaki University International Music Centre)

Exhibitions:

• Angus Carlyle produced Søndagsmaler, a 12” audio track on CD and the essay If I Were To Clap. If You Were To Listen for the Finetuned exhibition in Brighton in November 2007

• Angus Carlyle exhibited Sound in Public Space: Creative Interventions at the Digital Futures, Digital Print World Expo at Earls Court in London on the 16–18 October 2006