A comical but slightly sad story here about the council in Stoke-on-Trent building a library next to a loud speaker shop (you couldn't make it up could you).
Shop owner Simon Boote claims that the shop is well known to the council having supplied and tested PA equipment for the mayor, and cannot believe that instead of buying him out the council have built the library next to his shop and are now threatening his living with visits from environmental health officials instructing him to keep the noise down.
All quite funny on the face of it except that Mr Boote believes that this will lead to him having to lay off staff. As he says himself, this isn't exactly in line with the government's policy of protecting small businesses in the economic downturn
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- Sound is affecting, physiologically and psychologically; from the calming trickle of a lazy brook to the violent battery of the industrial machine.Yet we rarely consider these laws of sonic science, so locked into our visually dominant society we forget to respect the sound that brings our vision to life. By exploring the often forgotton sonic environment, Envirosonic attempts to understand the effects that sound has on our bodies, the role that it plays in our culture, and the sonic politics that govern our lives.
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