International Noise Awareness Day – April 27th – 30th. Lima, Perú INAD-2022
International Noise Awareness Day (INAD) was established by the US Center for Hearing and Communication (CHC) in 1996 to raise awareness of the harmful effects of noise on hearing, health and quality of life.
In Peru, the International Noise Awareness Day has been commemorated since 2021, through the Institute of Acoustics and Vibroacoustics of Peru (INPAVAC), and for this edition of 2022 it is expected to be held semi-presential with virtual conferences, cultural and scientific actions. The places and sites of activities will be communicated shortly.
On Wednesday, April 27th, the results of the noise monitoring that is being carried out since 2020 will be presented, analyzing the noise levels in all phases of closing/opening of activities during the COVID pandemic, and the importance of having Sundays with no car circulation, because a healthy soundscape was recorded during the quarantine, and this information will be useful to implement a public policy by the municipalities, to establish ‘A day with no car’.
Activities related to INAD-2022
Acoustics is not just ‘about measuring noise’
During this year 2022 INPAVAC will hold a series of posthumous tributes to Peruvian first acousticians, and within the activities of the International Noise Awareness Day, the work of two key architects of the 20th century Modernist movement who were also dedicated to acoustics will be remembered:
Arch. Luis Cartucho’Miró Quesada Graland (1914-1994), is one of the architects of Modernism in Lima. He is the first Peruvian to occupy an international Chair in 1968 as an acoustician in the Latin American Acousticians Group (GALA).
Arch. Roberto S. Wakeham Dasso (1920-1986), was a Le Corbusier’s collaborator; he stands out as the first Peruvian who was dedicated to the acoustics of churches, he was the one who conducted an acoustic study of the Lima Theater in 1970, and the acoustic design of the Auditorium of the Santa Ursula School in 1965.
The locations and sites of the activities of these tributes will be communicated shortly.
Luigi Russolo’s Intonarumori:
The soundscape of the modern city
The Italian artist Luigi Russolo (1885-1947), who invented the Intonarumori, a musical instrument that mechanically produced sounds that ‘imitated’ the city noises, will be recognized. His 1914 compositions have left us a legacy that is recently being recognized, as his works are acoustic representations of the cities soundscape of the early twentieth century.
Among the activities that are being programmed, it is expected to confirm an artistic exhibition of his works, and the presentation of the reconstruction of one of his ‘noise machines,’ at a place/date/time to be confirmed soon.