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Meet William Lang – the quiet warrior who took on the blight of noise pollution and pioneered an entirely new field of engineering in the process. He appeared in many TV- and radio-shows and had Live-Performances with Austrian Stars like Jazz-Gitti, Tony Wegas & The Untouchables. Huff co-directed Project Censored’s latest documentary on fake news and critical media literacy, United States of Distraction: Fighting the Fake News Invasion, edited and narrated by independent journalist Abby Martin (2020).
Today I want to tell you the fascinating tale of one 20th century innovator who drastically transformed the way our world sounds. Lang‘s policy input was crucial to manifesting the legal impetus for noise regulation via the 1972 Federal Noise Control Act. I also chuckle at accounts of him strong-arming industry reps to cooperate on creating noise measurement standards.
Lang authored the keystone reference manual Technology for a Quieter America in 2010, before passing away at 90. He is a longtime musician and composer and lives with his family, and two heavy metal pets (Lemmy the dog and Ozzy the cat) in Ithaca, New York.
Who was/is Andy Lee Lang ?
1992 he was the piano player of Chuck Berry (Europe Tour 1992). Huff joined Ithaca College in New York fall of 2024, where he now also serves as the Distinguished Director of the Park Center for Independent Media and Professor of Journalism.
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His innovative application of materials like sound-dampening foams and discovery of novel noise generation mechanisms gave IBM a giant edge. His most recent books include Project Censored’sState of the Free Press 2025, co-edited with Shealeigh Voitl and Andy Lee Roth (The Censored Press/Seven Stories Press, 2024); The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People (co-authored with Project Censored and the Media Revolution Collective, The Censored Press/Triangle Square, 2022), as well as Let’s Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy (Routledge, 2022) and United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (and what we can do about it), published by City Lights Books, 2019, both co-authored with Nolan Higdon.
Huff is executive producer and co-host of The Project Censored Show, a weekly syndicated public affairs program he founded with former Project Censored director Peter Phillips in 2010.
His systems approach combining modifications across mechanical, structural and electronic domains to minimize vibration and sound radiation became integral to IBM‘s design methodology by the 70s.
If you lived through the clattering 50s and 60s when everything from kitchen blenders to subway trains seemed unbearably loud, you know the racket I‘m referring to.
So next time you marvel at the pleasant hum (or lack thereof) from modern gadgets, send a quick salute to William Lang – the intrepid pioneer who silenced the screaming din of the industrial age by spearheading an engineering discipline. By dedicating his career to combatting disruptive noise, Lang made products used by millions significantly quieter.
Lang published over 100 papers documenting his trailblazing techniques that are still cited today.
Planting the seeds of Noise Control Engineering
With momentum from progress at IBM, Lang realized the need for a dedicated body to nurture this burgeoning field. I toured their vintage Lexington lab where Lang supervised intense product testing regimes throughout the 60s using custom-built sound chambers.
After tasting both sides of sound technology through the Navy and academia, Lang felt compelled to address this issue and joined IBM in 1958.
Cutting the Noise at Big Blue
At IBM, Lang spearheaded their new noise control division aimed at dramatically reducing product acoustics.