Tag: festivals
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The Sleepless Night Challenge
Reading Time: 2 minutesNear where I live there are three or four music events and two of them are multi-day events. Last night when I was walking home I noticed just how much noise was bleeding from the festival and it polarised me into commenting on it, on Strava. When I walked in town two…
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On Caribana’s Noise Pollution and Geeky White Noise Solutions
Reading Time: 3 minutesLast night was the first night of the Caribana and for the most part it was quiet. It was quiet until 23:30 when one of the less competent sound gremlins got to the audio mixing desk and made it tremendously loud. So loud that I could hear the music clearly. If I…
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The Curse of the Summer Music Festival
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the good old days noisy music festivals made sense, because technology was not what it is today. There was no choice but to build huge speaker stacks with huge amounts of power, to deafen an entire crowd of festival goers. It was also a different age, where attitudes to noise pollution…
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The Noise Pollution of Caribana and Other Music Festivals
Reading Time: 3 minutesSummary In the 21st century technology exists that could make music festivals sound good for festival goers, whist not ruing the night of sleep for neighbours of the festival. I would like EPFL and other academic groups to work towards finding a way to make music festivals more considerate of neighbouring humans,…
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Day 32 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – A Single Tab Open
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have a single tab open in Chrome at the moment, my main browser. This window, to write this blog post. We are now in Day 32 of self-isolation and I’m keeping myself distracted through blogging, making webpages mobile friendly and more. I’m also limiting the time I spend on news websites,…