Welcome to Peace and Quiet

More and more, artificial, human-generated, undesirable and unhealthy sound unduly burdens the soundscape—the indispensable, integral acoustic component of our environment.

To bring about awareness of this problem, prevent and abate noise as much as possible, the Right to Quiet Society for Soundscape Awareness and Protection was established in 1982.

If you wish to read and learn more about us, our work, and find information on the effects of noise, how to deal with noise problems, and how to protect yourself from noise, you are cordially invited to explore our web site.

If you find our work interesting, have any comments or suggestions to make, please Contact us.

Should you wish to join our society as a member, please click Join Us and follow the instructions there.

If you would like to donate to the Right to Quiet Society through CanadaHelps.org, please click here. En Francais ici.

If you did not like what you saw here, without telling us you might consider leaving quietly.

Thanks for visiting. Upcoming events follow on this page.

2nd International UNTreF Acoustics Congress from September 8 - 10, 2010, in Buenos Aires, Argentina For more information, please visit <http://www.untref.edu.ar/congreso_acustica.htm>

2o Congreso Internacional de Acústica de la UNTreF (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero) del 8 al 10 de Septiembre de 2010 en Buenos Aires, República Argentina Para más información, por favor visitar: <http://www.untref.edu.ar/congreso_acustica.htm>

Acoustics Week in Canada
The annual conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association, to be held Oct. 13 - 15, 2010, in beautiful Victoria, BC. Abstract submission is open at the CAA website until June 15, 2010. For more information, please visit the conference website
www.caa-aca.ca/victoria2010/index_portal.html
and for the website brochure (pdf) click here.

2nd Panamerican and Iberian Acoustic Meeting in Cancun, Mexico from Nov. 15 - 19, 2010
2a Reunión Panamericana e Ibérica de Acústica en Cancun, Mexico
del 15 al 19 de noviembre de 2010

For more information please contact:
Fernando J. Elizondo Garza
Laboratorio de Acústica de la
Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica de la
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
fjelizon@hotmail.com
fjelizon@prodigy.net.mx
fjelizon@mail.uanl.mx
Tel. Cel. (móvil) + 52 81 1485 4319
Tel Oficina + 52 81 8329 4020 Ext 5854 de 8:30 a 14:30 Hrs México

16th Annual International Noise Awareness Day is scheduled for April 27, 2011!

The 16th Annual International Noise Awareness Day is scheduled for April 27, 2011! For more information on international activities, please go to www.chchearing.org, the website of the Center for Hearing and Communication, formerly the League for the Hard of Hearing in New York.

Here, we will issue a special edition of our Spring 2011 newsletter with further announcements about possible activities on INA-Day. To receive leaflets and other information to hand out in your area, please contact us.

To see photos of our efforts in Vancouver during previous Noise Awareness Days, please click here.

More suggestions below.

Reject irrelevant, irritating audio-entertainment while on hold on the telephone

If you don't like to listen to imposed "music", advertising or other undesired audio-programme while put on hold on the line, don't hesitate to let the other side know that you dislike having their choice of programme imposed on you. It is completely irrelevant and has nothing to do with the purpose of calling. It's an imposition and, indeed, an insult. If they don't want to do without it, then provide us the option to "press one for silence. "

ICBEN—International commission on Biological Effects of Noise. The abstracts of the contributions are available from ICBEN2008, the 9th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, 21–25 July, 2008, Foxwood, connecticut, USA.

Vancouver International Airport (YVR) Noise Monitoring—A new website was launched by the Vancouver Airport Authority that will allow the public to view flights over the Metro Vancouver area as they occur. WebTrak for YVR supposedly shows in real time where planes are flying and simultaneously displays the resulting noise level at several monitoring stations on the ground. there are 20 such stations in Metro Vancouver. For security reasons there is a 10-minute delay in the transmission of the flight data. The web-address is http://yvr.webtrak-lochard.com/template/index.html

Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere."

— Dr. William H. Stewart, former Surgeon General of the United States