Sound Source Study in Shenzhen China

Shenzhen is a rapid developing city in Chinese urbanization. With thirty-year development, the city is derived from a rural into the fourth metropolis in China. In such a dramatic transforming, the area’s ecological environment has been changed tremendously, in which its sonic environment including sound level and sound sources has been changed too. No doubtfully, many man-made sounds have penetrated into the area and original natural sounds are dying away. In order to reveal how much sound source is having been and will be changed in the Shenzhen’s urbanization, the Shenzhen Environmental Monitoring Centre (SEMC) started a project of recording and monitoring sound sources and their changes with the whole city context. In this paper, works of the SEMC in investigating sound sources and their distribution around the inner Shenzhen are demonstrated. It is expected to show an ecological diverse of sound in Shenzhen. The study is also supposed to express an ecological variation of acoustic environment in terms of sound sources. Moreover, the study result will be used to effectively monitor sound changes of the Shenzhen in order to provide useful guidelines to the city planners and designers in creating more sonic pleasure open spaces for the Shenzhen’s further development.