Mapping Toronto’s Sound Ecology: From Architecture to Santa Claus While the City of Toronto unveils a material-culture scrapbook of 176 years of history, designers Greg J. Smith and Max Ritts map what ...

The sonic intentions of architecture are often lost over the centuries. In 2014, a team of researchers investigated the acoustics of Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki, Greece, to retrieve some of ...

In his vast research, the director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology Michael Frishkopf analyses connection between sound, architecture and everyday life What could be the connection between ...

Consider Greg J. Smith and Max Ritts’s just-launched Toronto Sound Ecology. It’s pretty slim pickings so far, but imagine its scope: Smith and Ritts (and any number of local collaborators) plan to ...