DRUID STREET, BERMONDSEY RESEARCH BOOK
MIN HAO ZHANG JING YI CHEN YI CHAN ZHANG
Druid Street, Bermondsey
With its restaurants, markets and breweries, Bermondsey has shuffled off its rough and ready reputation to become one of the capital’s great food and drink destinations. Home to the one of the famous markets which bears its name, Druid Street comes alive on Saturdays beneath the railway arches. Weekends are busiest as foodies flock to Druid Street Market and nearby Maltby Street market, but some surrounding bars and breweries are open weekday evenings too, pulling in the postwork crowd. the underneath the arches are Neal’s Yard Dairy, St. John’s Bakery, the Anspach & Hobday brewery and taproom, and popular drinking and doodling spot, Doodle Bar. The London Distillery Company is down the road, and architectural treasure hunters LASSCO have a shop (and restaurant) around the corner on Maltby Street.
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16 JAN 2018
BERMONDSEY
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from the station of Bermondsey, our group found one interesting neighborhood during our walk to the river. During this period of research, we focus
usiness and people involved in the arches of Druid St, what attracts us the most is the switch of the living pattern during different days in a week
o the extremly efficient space using. In this map, we want to explain our findings about following aspects about this area: ; Neighborhood and busi-
ategy; Living patterns of people who work here; How the noices of passing trains effects the business and its potential.
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Noise Zone:
ked visitors’ traces during two different time of a day and figured re are the centers that people usually gathered;
We both find the noices of passing trains very fascinating, they’re more like thunderstorm than purely noices due to the special building structure inside the arch.
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Visitors’ Distribution:
ng out the OPEN time of each store/factory, we gained a better anding about the flexibility of business running on weekday and d.
DRUID STREET
We marked the area where people gathered during weekdays and weekend in two different colors.
MINHAO ZHANG; YICHAO ZHANG; JINGYI CHEN
Exploring
We want to explore the topic of social behaviors and living environments in order to gain a better understanding of how people gather together and also the deep connections between people who try hard to survive in this specific city. Amplify noise Interaction Engage with music. The conversion of the noise with the music, Transforming Noise Into Music or highlight the 'noise' of become to locial feature or identity, In tandem with recent experimental music and technology, art has opened up to hitherto excluded dimensions of noise, silence and the act of listening. Artists working with sound have engaged in new forms of aesthetic encounter with the city and nature, the everyday and cultural otherness, technological effects and psychological states through the transformation of a waste product of technological society – noise – into an artwork.
visualizing sound
visualizing sound In physics, sound is a vibration that typically propagates as an audible wave of pressure, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid. In the late 18th century, German physicist and musician Ernst Chladni demonstrated how vibrations could be used to create striking imagery. By spreading fine sand across the top of a metal plate and running a violin bow alongside, Chladni showed that the sand would settle into distinct patterns, depending on the frequencies of the sound waves produced by the bow.
Division of responsibilities
Since the late nineteenth century, the sounds of technology have been the subject of complaints, regulation, and legislation. Bijsterveld argues that the rise of noise from new technology combined with overlapping noise regulations created what she calls a "paradox of control." Experts and politicians promised to control some noise, but left other noise problems up to citizens. Aircraft noise, for example, measured in formulas understandable only by specialists, was subject to public regulation; the sounds of noisy neighborhoods were the responsibility of residents themselves.
social order
Noise presents itself as a “universal history”: it presents a schema of four historical phases. Sacrificing, Representing, Repeating , and a fourth cultural stage which could roughly be called Post- Repeating. Music is the organization of sound; by channelling certain sounds in certain orders , it draws a distinction between sounds that are legitimate, and those that are not: the latter are relegated to the (negative) category of “noise.” music is addressed to everybody — it “interpellates” us into society. Music runs parallel to human society, is structured like it, and changes when it does... ...The aim is to make people forget that normalcy (order) has triumphed over carnival (freedom). Noise is violence, i.e., murder. Music is a channelization of noise and a simulacrum of sacrifice, a sublimation to create order and political integration. Therefore music is ritual murder...
Without sound
Sound is ubiquitous, unstoppable, immersive, the agency through which spoken language is understood and music is absorbed. Sound works quietly with other senses to scan an environment, to define orientation within a place, to register the feeling that we describe as atmosphere. Without sound, the world can be an indecipherable, remote and dangerous place, yet sound is the sense that we take for granted – the sense that comes to the forefront of our attention when a restaurant is too loud, when a neighbour’s television penetrates the walls, when a car alarm shatters the peace of a Sunday morning.
4'33''
4'33' is a three-movement composition by American experimental composer John Cage. It was composed in 1952, for any instrument or combination of instruments, and the score instructs the performer(s) not to play their instrument(s) during the entire duration of the piece throughout the three movements. The piece consists of the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed, although it is commonly perceived as "four minutes thirty-three seconds of silence". The title of the piece refers to the total length in minutes and seconds of a given performance.
Aphex Twin - ΔMi−1 = −αΣn=1NDi[n][Σj∈C{i}Fji[n − 1] + Fexti[n−1]
Luigi Russolo - Risveglio di una CittĂ
The Sound Tax
The Sound Taxi is equipped with a microphone that record its surrounding noise: the rumbling traffic, screeching brakes, sirens, construction work all are a part of the everyday din of the city. A specially designed software written in Max analyses the frequencies of these noises and uses them to generate unique music in real time. The spectrum is split into 25 frequency bands, like a graphic EQ, these bands are used to control different types of sounds in Ableton Live. For example a low rumble starts a bass line or loud hiss would trigger some hi hats, with the loudness of that noise controlling the loudness of the music. The music generated matches the dynamics of the street, the sounds will change and evolve as you drive in different parts of the city. Passersby heard the music via the 67 speakers built into the entire car body and the big, shiny Indian horns mounted on top of the taxi’s roof.
Questionir for noise
Resord noise
Market Normal 67.9 The train passes 74.9 under the bridge train passes 65-72 under the bridge normal 52-56 Residents normal 46-55 helicopters after 77
Noise map
The noise maps on this site show estimated levels of road traffic and railway noise according to the strategic noise mapping within agglomerations and along major transport routes. Noise levels were modeled on a 10 m grid at a receptor height of 4 m above ground. This data is a product of the strategic noise mapping exercise undertaken by Defra in 2012 to meet the requirements of the Environmental Noise Directive (Directive 2002/49/EC) and the Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006 (as amended). Results are shown for three noise level indicators: Lden (day-evening-night) - a 24 hour annual average noise level in decibels with weightings applied for the evening and night periods. LAeq,16h - the annual average noise level (in dB) for the 16-hour period between 0700-2300. Lnight - the night time annual average noise level (in dB) where night is defined as 2300-0700.
traffic noise map | Goldsmiths University area
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