Sound exposure during outdoor music festivals

Medical aspects of large outdoor festivals.

Pop-music festivals: some medical aspects.

In the past few years pop-music festivals on both sides of the Atlantic have rapidly increased in popularity-and length. Press and television have tended to emphasize various aspects of these assemblies, particularly the sexual licence and drug addiction, so that it was with some apprehension that-though we had agreed to staff a festival voluntarily, as we could not obtain fees-we approached ou...

Outbreaks associated to large open air festivals, including music festivals, 1980 to 2012.

In the minds of many, large scale open air festivals have become associated with spring and summer, attracting many people, and in the case of music festivals, thousands of music fans. These festivals share the usual health risks associated with large mass gatherings, including transmission of communicable diseases and risk of outbreaks. Large scale open air festivals have however specific char...

Composing Outdoor Augmented-Reality Sound Environments

We have constructed a wearable outdoor computer system which presents sounds and images placed at particular locations by means of headphones and a head-mounted display. The apparent location of a sound source can be fixed relative to the earth, independent of the listener’s position or orientation. For easy duplication, the system is built exclusively from off-the-shelf hardware and publicly a...

The Sound of Streamed Music

The quote stems from a journalist writing in the music recording magazine of Sound on Sounds and highlights issues concerning on-line music and the affordance such music brings for the listeners. Currently, music may be accessed via real-time streaming, accessed in complex conglomerates side by side with other types of content via computers, mobile phones, tablets, televisions, car stereos and ...