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Author : Bruce Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Five Village Soundscapes written by Bruce Davis and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ETUDE DES DIFFERENTS PAYSAGES SONORES DE 5 VILLAGES SITUES EN SUISSE, ALLEMAGNE, ITALIE, FRANCE ET ANGLETERRE.
Author : R. Murray Schafer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594776687
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)
Download or read book The Soundscape written by R. Murray Schafer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The soundscape--a term coined by the author--is our sonic environment, the ever-present array of noises with which we all live. Beginning with the primordial sounds of nature, we have experienced an ever-increasing complexity of our sonic surroundings. As civilization develops, new noises rise up around us: from the creaking wheel, the clang of the blacksmith’s hammer, and the distant chugging of steam trains to the “sound imperialism” of airports, city streets, and factories. The author contends that we now suffer from an overabundance of acoustic information and a proportionate diminishing of our ability to hear the nuances and subtleties of sound. Our task, he maintains, is to listen, analyze, and make distinctions. As a society we have become more aware of the toxic wastes that can enter our bodies through the air we breathe and the water we drink. In fact, the pollution of our sonic environment is no less real. Schafer emphasizes the importance of discerning the sounds that enrich and feed us and using them to create healthier environments. To this end, he explains how to classify sounds, appreciating their beauty or ugliness, and provides exercises and “soundwalks” to help us become more discriminating and sensitive to the sounds around us. This book is a pioneering exploration of our acoustic environment, past and present, and an attempt to imagine what it might become in the future.
Author : R. Murray Schafer
Publisher : A.R.C. Publications : A.R.C. The Aesthetic Research Centre : Burnaby, B.C. : World Soundscape Project
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book European Sound Diary written by R. Murray Schafer and published by A.R.C. Publications : A.R.C. The Aesthetic Research Centre : Burnaby, B.C. : World Soundscape Project. This book was released on 1977 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Murray Schafer
Publisher : Vancouver, B.C. : A.R.C. Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Five Village Soundscapes written by R. Murray Schafer and published by Vancouver, B.C. : A.R.C. Publications. This book was released on 1977 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helmi Järviluoma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789525264784
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Acoustic Environments in Change & Five Village Soundscapes written by Helmi Järviluoma and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Milena Droumeva
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030165698
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Sound, Media, Ecology written by Milena Droumeva and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reads the global urban environment through mediated sonic practices to put a contemporary spin on acoustic ecology’s investigations at the intersection of space, cultures, technology, and the senses. Acoustic ecology is an interdisciplinary framework from the 1970s for documenting, analyzing, and transforming sonic environments: an early model of the cross-boundary thinking and multi-modal practices now common across the digital humanities. With the recent emergence of sound studies and the expansion of “ecological” thinking, there is an increased urgency to re-discover and contemporize the acoustic ecology tradition. This book serves as a comprehensive investigation into the ways in which current scholars working with sound are re-inventing acoustic ecology across diverse fields, drawing on acoustic ecology’s focus on sensory experience, place, and applied research, as well as attendance to mediatized practices in sounded space. From sounding out the Anthropocene, to rethinking our auditory media landscapes, to exploring citizenship and community, this volume brings the original acoustic ecology problem set into the contemporary landscape of sound studies.
Author : Rachel Harris
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253050197
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam written by Rachel Harris and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is experiencing a crisis of securitization and mass incarceration. In Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam, author Rachel Harris examines the religious practice of a group of Uyghur women in a small village now engulfed in this chaos. Despite their remote location, these village women are mobile and connected, and their religious soundscapes flow out across transnational networks. Harris explores the spiritual and political geographies they inhabit, moving outward from the village to trace connections with Mecca, Istanbul, Bishkek, and Beijing. Sound, embodiment, and territoriality illuminate both the patterns of religious change among Uyghurs and the policies of cultural erasure used by the Chinese state to reassert its control over the land the Uyghurs occupy. By drawing on contemporary approaches to the circulation of popular music, Harris considers how various forms of Islam that arrive via travel and the internet come into dialogue with local embodied practices. Synthesized together, these practicies create new forms that facilitate powerful, affective experiences of faith.
Author : R. Murray Schafer
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 1123669082
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (236 download)
Download or read book My Life on Earth and Elsewhere written by R. Murray Schafer and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music is central to many of R. Murray Schafer’s memories. ‘One of the sounds that I’d almost forgotten until I began to write this chronicle was the tinkling of the piano keys when my mother used to wipe them with a wet cloth,’ he writes. ‘In the early years the high and low keys would be passed over quite quickly while the middle notes got the heavy scrubbing.’ The detail of this small, nearly-forgotten childhood memory is a poignant example of the way sounds can remain present in the imagination even when they are originated in the distant past. Schafer recounts childhood summers spent in Manitoba lassoing gophers (and being paid two cents a head for them) and a music education marked by his cheerful but total resistance to the conventional instruction that was available. His youthful travels in Germany, France, Austria, Italy and Eastern Europe are recreated in a lively, impressionist style with plenty of comic and melancholy stories gleaned from his diaries of the time, including an account of a folk music convention in Communist Romania (which he attended with imaginative but shaky credentials identifying him as a representative of the CBC, The Globe and Mail, the University of Toronto Press and even the Kiwanis Club). The conference proving dull, Schafer eluded the government minders and took an unauthorized trip to see a girl he had met on the train, and despite knowing nothing of the language spent an idyllic few days with her at her parents’ remote village -- while the police questioned every young man with a beard in the area of Bucharest in a fruitless search for the suspected ‘spy.’ On his return to Canada, teaching assignments took him first to Newfoundland, then to Vancouver, where he created the World Soundscape Project. In 1975 Schafer resigned from university teaching and for many years has devoted himself full time to writing and composing. My Life on Earth and Elsewhere continues the story of his domestic and international musical adventures up to the present day.
Author : Jian Kang
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203004787
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Urban Sound Environment written by Jian Kang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades there have been many major new developments in the field of urban sound environment. Jian Kang introduces and examines these key developments, including: the development of prediction methods for urban sound propagation establishment and application of noise-mapping software new noise control measures and design methods. Also covered is the new EU directive on noise and the substantial actions it has brought about across Europe. As the importance of soundscape, acoustic comfort and sound environment design have become widely recognized, Urban Sound Environments is a thoroughly useful book for students and practitioners in a wide range of fields, from urban planning and landscape through to architecture and acoustics.
Author : Usue Ruiz Arana
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003850472
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Urban Soundscapes written by Usue Ruiz Arana and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound and listening are intrinsically linked to how we experience and engage with places and communities. This guide puts forward a new conceptual framework of embodied affectivity that emphasises listening in urban research and design and advances new ways of knowing and making. The guide invites landscape architects and urban designers to become soundscape architects and offers practical advice on sound and listening applicable to each stage of a design project: from reading the environment to intervening on it. Urban Soundscapes foregrounds listening as an affective mediator between subjects and multispecies environments, and a vehicle to think and conceptualise environmental research and design beyond prevailing visual and human-centred modes. The guide expands landscape architects’ and urban designers’ tools and skills to assess existing soundscapes, predict how those soundscapes will be altered through their designs, consider sound as a creative and active part of the design process and envisage how users might perceive and be affected by those soundscapes as they evolve in time. The volume sits in the interface of research and practice and interweaves theoretical, methodological and creative contributions from acoustic ecology, ecoacoustics, bioacoustics and sound art. Each of the design stages is illustrated through project examples that demonstrate the many advantages of incorporating attentive listening and sound into Landscape Architecture and Urban Design Practice. This book shows how incorporating listening and sounding as part of the design process promotes slow and subtle ways of practice, adds social and ecological value through the reduction of noise pollution and by monitoring the health of habitats, and enables the design of soundscapes that complement the character and design intent of a scheme and elicit joy and wonder. The book will be of interest to practitioners and academics in landscape architecture, and other design and spatial fields such as urban design, architecture, geography and engineering, who play a primary role in the composition of the soundscape.
Author : Eugenio Morello
Publisher : Edizioni Nuova Cultura
ISBN 13 : 8868121360
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Envisioning Architecture written by Eugenio Morello and published by Edizioni Nuova Cultura. This book was released on 2013 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Murray Schafer
Publisher : Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812211092
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Tuning of the World written by R. Murray Schafer and published by Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Rutherford-Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520283155
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Music After the Fall written by Tim Rutherford-Johnson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music after the Fall is the first book to survey contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the post–Cold War era. In this book, Tim Rutherford-Johnson considers musical composition against this changed backdrop, placing it in the context of globalization, digitization, and new media. Drawing connections with the other arts, in particular visual art and architecture, he expands the definition of Western art music to include forms of composition, experimental music, sound art, and crossover work from across the spectrum, inside and beyond the concert hall. Each chapter is a critical consideration of a wide range of composers, performers, works, and institutions, and develops a broad and rich picture of the new music ecosystem, from North American string quartets to Lebanese improvisers, from electroacoustic music studios in South America to ruined pianos in the Australian outback. Rutherford-Johnson puts forth a new approach to the study of contemporary music that relies less on taxonomies of style and technique than on the comparison of different responses to common themes of permission, fluidity, excess, and loss.
Author : Franco Piperno
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000899918
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 written by Franco Piperno and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across thirteen chapters, contributors explore the complex connections between sound and space within these urban contexts, demonstrating how music and sound were intimately connected to changing social and political practices. The volume offers a critical redefinition of the core concept of soundscape, considering musical practices through the lenses of territory, space, representation, and identity, in five parts: Soundscape, Phonosphere, and Urban History Urban Soundscapes across Time Urban Soundscapes and Acoustic Communities Urban Soundscapes in Literary Sources Reconstructing Urban Soundscapes in the Digital Era Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 reframes our understanding of Italian music history beyond models of patronage, investigating how sounds and musics have contributed to the construction of human identities and communities.
Author : Ariane Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527531244
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Sound Worlds from the Body to the City written by Ariane Wilson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reveals the extent to which aural perception influences our spatial awareness. Spanning various fields and practices, from psychology to geography, and from zoology to urban planning, it covers a range of environments in which sounds contribute to forming our sense of space and place. The contributions gathered here lead from the mother’s womb, through the habitats of insects and owls, to the resonating bodies of buildings and the city, to artistic endeavours that aim to consciously reveal the spatiality of sound. In this progression, the book demonstrates the profoundly constitutive role of hearing and listening at all stages of our biological and social development, as well as the epistemological, phenomenological and emotional importance of sound in relation to our construction of space. As such, it will appeal not only to architects, town-planners and artists, but also to the growing community of scientists and scholars intrigued by sonic issues. Differing from both quantitative acoustics and sound design, its approach opens new perspectives on the sonic dimension and aural understanding of our environment by tracing analogies between a diversity of spaces formed when sound interacts with listening as a mode of attention.
Author : Emma-Kate Matthews
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040184529
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to the Sound of Space written by Emma-Kate Matthews and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-11 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion explores a range of conceptual and practical relationships between sound and space across various disciplines, providing insights from technical, creative, cultural, political, philosophical, psychological, and physiological perspectives. The content spans a wide range of spatial typologies, from large reverberant buildings to modest and intimate ones, from external public squares to domestic interiors, and from naturally formed environments to highly engineered spaces. These compiled insights and observations explore the vast diversity of ways in which sonic and spatial realms interact. This publication therefore forms important bridges between the intricate and diverse topics of technology, philosophy, composition, performance, and spatial design, to contemplate the potential of sound and space as tools for creative expression and communication, as well as for technical innovation. It is hoped that by sharing these insights, this book will inspire practitioners, scholars, and enthusiasts to incorporate new perspectives and methodologies into their own work. Through a rich blend of theory, practice, and critical reflection, this volume serves as a valuable resource for anyone interested in exploring the intricacy of relationships between space and sound, whether they are students, professionals, or simply curious. Our companion provides a cross-section through shared territories between sonic and spatial disciplines from architecture, engineering, sound design, music composition and performance, urban design, product design, and much more.
Author : Elaine Keillor
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773533915
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Music in Canada written by Elaine Keillor and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a history of Canadian musical expressions and their relationship to Canada's cultural and geographic diversity. This book features a survey of 'musics' in Canada and includes forty-three vignettes highlighting topics such as Inuit throat games, the music of k d lang, and orchestras in Victoria.
