-“In densely packed urban environments, narrow streets amplified sound. Mechanical noises contributed to and in some cases dominated, the sounds of nature.”

-“Unlike earlier periods, soundscapes were now so varied as to defy the traditional experience of sound”

-“Foreground sonic events, especially those having symbolic meaning, are more apparent when they appear against a background of relative silence.”

-“Industrial sounds become so dominant that they become the sonic background rather than isolated foreground sonic events.”Today, urban noise as the ‘backdrop’ is the norm, with the natural sounds of a space becoming the foreground effects.

-The authors argue that through the rise of industrial noise, ‘public acoustic arenas’ which serve the role of facilitating social cohesion, shrank as noise overpowered them. The shrinking of this ‘acoustic arena’ is exactly the issue I am choosing to emphasise in this piece. Through the composition and manipulation of field recordings, I wish to portray the City Park as a space in which natural sounds are trapped. Caged and suppressed by the noise pollution of the city. These urban green spaces are fighting the same battle to escape its sonic oppressor as the people who live their lives in the city.