International Day Against Noise
In 1996 the US League for the Hard of Hearing initiated the annual “International Noise Awareness Day”. Since then organisations, action groups, medical doctors and acousticians across the world have been observing this action day. In a symbolic gesture we will observe a minute’s silence at 2.15 p.m.
Acoustic City will present a concrete plan for a long-term change in Linz’s soundscape and will attract attention with a large real-time decibel indicator in the Main Square. A “Quiet Diet” as a possible personal contribution to noise reduction: monitoring of our own noise production, lowering the sound volume when listening to music or watching TV, sounding car horns only in an emergency, is recommended.
