Entertainment sounds, the soundscape, and resources

Assessing the impact of entertainment sounds in communities will need a multifaceted analysis. An evaluation process has to be considered that will cover the different facets with regard to people’s understanding about an acoustic environment where the impact of entertainment sound will occur. The “meeting of music and environment” discussed by R. M. Schafer opens the mind in many directions to learn about the different aspects and related impacts in such a soundscape that is relying on given activities in an area that will lead to a harmonized or an acoustically unbalanced situation. Understanding human auditory scene analysis and the important role of auditory attention forces to outline soundscape assessment methods and to come to enhanced methodologies for inventing action parameters with regard to a sounding community. This paper will introduce regulations to harmonize the different interests regarding interventions through entertainment sounds in communities but also introduce the soundscape approac...