Institute for Land, Water, and Society, Charles Sturt University, P.O. Box 789, Albury NSW 2640, Australia.
J Acoust Soc Am. 2021 Oct;150(4):2677. doi: 10.1121/10.0006451.
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated how a stochastic disruptive event can dramatically alter community soundscapes. Whilst religious bells have symbolism in many worldwide faiths, the sound emanating from church bells can be considered public domain and therefore, is not exclusive to the church. Pandemic-related interruption of these sounds impacts not only the church involved, but both the surrounding soundscape and any members of the community who ascribe value to these sounds. This paper examines the soundscape of Christian churches in the states of New South Wales and Victoria, to give an Australian perspective one year after the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. It provides an update of the situation in Australia, building on our previous work from August of that year. In doing so, it explores the activity of church tower bell ringing, and how this "non-essential" activity has been affected, both during and subsequent to the heavy community restrictions applied in Australia. The paper also explores what lengths bellringers have undertaken to be permitted to conduct such activities, such as the use of adaptive measures due to "social distancing", and considers what implications this enforced silence has in similar soundscapes elsewhere in the world.
新冠疫情大流行表明，随机干扰事件会如何极大地改变社区声景。虽然宗教钟声在世界上许多宗教中都具有象征意义，但教堂钟声发出的声音可以被认为是公共领域的，因此不限于教堂使用。与疫情相关的钟声中断不仅会影响到涉及的教堂，还会影响周围的声景以及任何认为这些声音有价值的社区成员。本文研究了新南威尔士州和维多利亚州的基督教教堂的声景，以在 2020 年 3 月宣布新冠疫情大流行一年后提供澳大利亚的视角。它在我们当年 8 月的先前工作基础上，更新了澳大利亚的情况。在这样做的过程中，它探讨了教堂钟楼钟声的活动，以及这种“非必要”活动在澳大利亚实施的严格社区限制期间和之后是如何受到影响的。本文还探讨了钟声演奏者为获得许可而采取的各种措施，例如由于“社交距离”而采用适应性措施，并考虑了这种强制静音对世界其他地方类似声景的影响。
