This page contains dozens of links to studies and news reports on noise, including book reviews and editorials.
Book Reviews Editorials News Releases Technical Articles World News and Opinion
- This is Your Brain on Music: the Science of a Human Obsession
by Daniel J. Levitin (2007), Reviewed by Alice Fedorenko
- The Treasure of Quiet Moments
Article by by Alice Fedorenko
Based on the book, Pause: Putting the Brakes on a Runaway Life, by Katherine Gibson (2006).- Neighbours from Hell: Managing today's brand of conflict close to home
by Bob Borzotta- Carol: A Woman's Way (Fiction)
by Kathy Ashby (2009)
A woman seeks to preserve her local environment.- Noise
by Bart Kosko (2006)- One Square Inch of Silence
by Gordon Hempton and John Grossman- Stillness: Daily Gifts of Solitude
by Richard Mahler- Unclutter Your Life: Transforming Your Physical, Mental and Emotional Space
by Katherine Gibson- Quiet Mind: One-Minute Retreats from a Busy World
by David Kundtz (2000).
- Acoustic Responsibility: A Concept Whose Time Has Come
- Cosmic Bowling, the White Flash, and the Death of Tranquillity
- For Now, the Issue Is Awareness
- Music: The New Addiction
- Progress – or Paradise Lost?
News Releases
Anti-Noise Group Wants Establishments to Pipe Down
VICTORIA, April 26, 1997—Announcing our campaign against program audio in public places.
Technical ArticlesWorld News and Opinion
- How Much Noise Is Too Much Noise?
by Federico Miyara of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina)- The Physics, Physiology, and Psychology of Noise
This informative talk by member Jeremy Tatum also expresses our reservations about decibel-based municipal noise laws.- Sound and accoustics:
Stig Igemansson wrote an interesting book and technical articles on sound and acoustics. One place that provides access to this public domain work is:
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/AcousticalTest/
Industrial/Vibration_Control.html
The illustrations are available in downloadable .pdf format from this site.- Explanation of Decibel Levels
By Jeremy Tatum, Ph.D.
- Sound Bites
Gleanings from the world press.- Please Turn Off the Music
Piped music is more than an annoyance to the hearing impaired.- Pardon? Speak Up! I’ve Just Been to the Movies
No, you aren’t imagining that movies have gotten painfully loud.- The Lost Resource...or...”Quiet Please”
What happens when bad manners and modern technology meet.- Leaf-Blower Terrorism
A powerful essay by John Miller- Debris Blowers in Landscape Maintenance: Costs, Benefits, and Common Good
A position paper on debris blowers (aka “leaf blowers”) by Eco-Magic of Palo Alto, California U.S.- Piped Music: An Expensive Mistake
A German study suggests that compulsory listening doesn’t make people better consumers.- Prospect Lake Ban on Jet Skis Raises the Stakes in the Noise Battle
How Big Industry is fighting to appropriate the soundscape.- Leaf-Blowers and the GDP
by Michael Valpy of the Globe and Mail.- Is There Sound Pollution on the Sound?
External link to an article from a San Juan County newspaper about the various acoustical atrocities being perpetrated in the “silent world” of our coastal waters.
Health effects
-Some non-auditory effects of noise are: Cardiovascular constriction, elevated blood pressure, increased heart rate, more laboured breathing, measurable changes in skin resistance and skeletal muscle tension, digestive system changes, glandular activity altering the chemical content of blood and urine, vestibular effect, balance sense effect, changes in brain chemistry and more....
—Dr. Luther Terry - Former US Surgeon General —
Noiseletter, Spring 2001
