Clamor

Jackhammering from construction. The dull roar of jet overflights. Your officemates phone conversations. Noise is everywhere, disrupting our sleep, ratcheting up our stress, destroying our concentrationyet its a problem that many of us shrug off once the immediate annoyance passes. In Clamor, Chris Berdik reveals noise as one of the most pervasive, yet under-acknowledged, pollutants in our daily lives, the harms of which extend far beyond our hearing, from our childrens learning outcomes to our longevity to the natural world around us. We systemically neglect lifes sonic dimension at our perilnot only driving up the racket but failing to harness sounds great potential. Berdik introduces us to the researchers, rock stars, architects and many others who are finding surprising ways to make our world sound not only less bad, but better. Rising above the ever-increasing din, Clamor is an urgentand ultimately inspiringcall to reconsider our relationship to our worlds soundscapes.