Dr Ruth Bernatek presents her current SONCITIES research, ‘Anatomy of a Noise Complaint’, as part if the Urban Sound Symposium 2023. This paper examines acoustic cultures within a UK policy and legal framework, in particular, how noise complaint processes highlight complex built and systemic architectures of sound in the city and reveals marked ‘cracks’ in top-down urban management systems.

The three day symposium is centred around themes of urban sound planning and design, urban sound propagation and control, sound technologies, urban soundscape analysis and sound art.

Details of the full progam and how to register can be found here:

https://urban-sound-symposium.org/