With an increasing awareness of environmental impacts on our general health and overall wellbeing the attention to sound related subjects is evoking public interest and concern. While noise pollution is a recognized hazard in urban settings and developments, very little research has so far been done on the positive effects of musical sound and its scope to enhance the quality of life and environment.
Besides private spaces, parks especially, as well as recreational and institutional areas offer places and opportunities to incooperate the balancing and harmonizing effect of sound. Unlike most musical arrangements, which are principally concerned with organizing sounds in time, sound installations are centrally concerned with organizing sounds in space. The sonic dimension provides a rich arena in which to explore alternative, non-linear constructions of space and time, where space can be understood through its aural properties and appreciated through the act of listening. …
