How Does Sound Travel In The City?

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

Society & Culture, Education, Public, Chicago, Arts, City, Radio, Curious, Investigation

4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Listening to an outdoor concert is a typical Chicago summer activity. But hearing that concert a few neighborhoods away? We look at how sound travels in the city.

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0:44.6	One summer night, Chicagoan Emily Tamlin was standing in her backyard in the North Park neighborhood.
0:51.3	When she started to hear the deep voice of Billy Joel, it was so loud,
1:00.8	she assumed it must be a cover band in her neighborhood. Then we looked the next day and realized,
1:06.6	oh my God, it was at Wrigley Field, and we are nowhere near close to Wrigley Field.
1:10.9	Emily lives four and a half miles from the stadium.
1:15.0	So it got her wondering.
1:17.1	How does sound travel across Chicago?
1:19.5	Well, there are tons of different noises in Chicago, from the rattling of the L,
1:25.3	to the bells of the Pellettaetta carts ringing out, to our classic blues
1:32.2	music. And there are all sorts of things that could move sound across the city, or block it.
1:42.5	So to tackle Emily's question, we got Acoustic consultant Scott Pfeiffer to help us
1:47.9	conduct a little audio experiment. On a night when Deaf Leopard and Journey were set to rock out at
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