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Soundscape Semiotics

Author : Hervé Glotin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9535112260
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Soundscape Semiotics written by Hervé Glotin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Soundscape Semiotics - Localization and Categorization is a research publication that covers original research on developments within the Soundscape Semiotics field of study. The book is a collection of reviewed scholarly contributions written by different authors. Each scholarly contribution represents a chapter and each chapter is complete in itself but related to the major topics and objectives. The chapters included in the book are divided in two section. First section - Advanced Signal Processing Methodologies for Soundscape Analysis contains 5 chapters, and second section - Human Hearing Estimations and Cognitive Soundscape Analysis 3 chapters. The target audience comprises scholars and specialists in the field.

The Sound Handbook

Author : Tim Crook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136521097
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book The Sound Handbook written by Tim Crook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Tim Crook has written an important and much-needed book, and its arrival on our shelves has come at a highly appropriate time.' Professor Seán Street, Bournemouth University The Sound Handbook maps theoretical and practical connections between the creation and study of sound across the multi-media spectrum of film, radio, music, sound art, websites, animation and computer games entertainment, and stage theatre. Using an interdisciplinary approach Tim Crook explores the technologies, philosophies and cultural issues involved in making and experiencing sound, investigating soundscape debates and providing both intellectual and creative production information. The book covers the history, theory and practice of sound and includes practical production projects and a glossary of key terms. The Sound Handbook is supported by a companion website, signposted throughout the book, with further practical and theoretical resources dedicated to bridging the creation and study of sound across professional platforms and academic disciplines.

Tele-Improvisation: Intercultural Interaction in the Online Global Music Jam Session

Author : Roger Mills
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319710397
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Book Synopsis Tele-Improvisation: Intercultural Interaction in the Online Global Music Jam Session by : Roger Mills

Download or read book Tele-Improvisation: Intercultural Interaction in the Online Global Music Jam Session written by Roger Mills and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research monograph explores the rapidly expanding field of networked music making and the ways in which musicians of different cultures improvise together online. It draws on extensive research to uncover the creative and cognitive approaches that geographically dispersed musicians develop to interact in displaced tele-improvisatory collaboration. It presents a multimodal analysis of three tele-improvisatory performances that examine how cross-cultural musician’s express and perceive intentionality in these interactions, as well as their experiences of distributed agency and tele-presence. Tele-Improvisation: Intercultural Interaction in the Online Global Music Jam Session will provide essential reading for musician’s, postgraduate students, researchers and educators, working in the areas of telematic performance, musicology, music cognition, intercultural communication, distance collaboration and learning, digital humanities, Computer Supported Cooperative Work and HCI.

Promoting Healthy and Supportive Acoustic Environments: Going beyond the Quietness

Author : Francesco Aletta
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3039282727
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Promoting Healthy and Supportive Acoustic Environments: Going beyond the Quietness written by Francesco Aletta and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers 14 original contributions published in an IJERPH Special Issue that deal with the perception of environmental sounds and how such sounds are likely to affect human quality of life and well-being and the experience of a place. The research focus over the years has been gradually shifting from treating sound simply as “noise” and something that cities should get rid of to a potential “resource” to promote and support community life in public spaces. Three main topics or “needs” to be addressed by researchers and practitioners emerged from this Special Issue: (1) the need to re-think “quietness” in cities as something that goes beyond the mere “pursuit of silence”, (2) the need to integrate additional contextual factors in the characterization and management of urban acoustic environments for public health, and (3) the need to consider the acoustic quality of indoor spaces as opposed to an outdoor-only perspective. The contributions collected in this book will hopefully trigger new questions and inform the agenda of future researchers and practitioners in the environmental acoustics domain.

Semiotics of Animals in Culture

Author : Gianfranco Marrone
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319729926
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Semiotics of Animals in Culture written by Gianfranco Marrone and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To place animals within the realm of nature, means inserting them among the articulations of culture and the social. Semiotics has never avoided this chiasmus, choosing to deal from the outset with the problem of the languages of animals following the old admonition of Montaigne: it is not that animals do not talk, it is us who do not understand them. Recent research in the field of the anthropology of nature and sociology of sciences and techniques allow to think about the Zoosemiotic issue in a different way. Instead of transplanting the language structures – gestures, LIS, etc. – for a semiotic study of the forms of the human and social meaning, it seems more apt to look at their discourse, and as such, the actual interactions, communicative and scientific as well as practical and functional, between humans and non-humans. This book aims to investigate precisely this hypothesis, known here as Zoosemiotics 2.0, working on several fronts and levels: · Anthropology · Languages of the image and visual representations, from art history to cinema · Old and new media. From literature to comics, from cartoons to TV documentaries but also advertising, music, Web and social networks. All those cultural products that talk about the role of human and non-human in society implicitly proposing (and in some way imposing) a form of articulation of such a relationship. · Food and feeding rites · Animalist, vegetarian and vegan movements · Philosophy: metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics

The Perceptual Structure of Sound

Author : Dik J. Hermes
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031255666
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book The Perceptual Structure of Sound written by Dik J. Hermes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-10 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive review of how acoustic waves are processed by the auditory system into structured sounds such as musical melodies, speech utterances, or environmental sounds. After an introduction, an overview is given of how the ears distribute acoustic information over a large array of frequency channels that contain the auditory information used by the central nervous system to generate a mental image of what is happening around the listener. This process, called auditory scene analysis, consists of two stages. In the first stage, auditory units are formed such as musical tones and speech syllables. Each auditory unit is perceived at a well-defined moment in time, the beat location of that auditory unit. Moreover, from this process of auditory-unit formation, the auditory attributes of these auditory units emerge, such as their timbre, their pitch, their loudness, and their perceived location. Each of these attributes is discussed in the corresponding chapter. In the second stage of auditory scene analysis, auditory-stream formation, the successive auditory units are integrated into auditory streams, i.e., temporally structured sequences of auditory units that are perceived as emanating from one and the same sound source. Examples of such auditory streams are musical melodies and the utterances of one speaker. The temporal structure of an auditory stream, its rhythm, is determined by the beat locations of its auditory units. The role played by the auditory attributes of the consecutive auditory units is discussed. The melodies of musical streams and the intonation contours of spoken utterances emerge from this process. In music, the beats of parallel streams generally fit into a metric pattern, and, depending on harmony, simultaneous tones can be perceived as consonant or dissonant. Finally, the book contains many sound examples including the MATLAB scripts with which they are generated.

The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design

Author : Michael Filimowicz
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 104013095X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design written by Michael Filimowicz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design offers a comprehensive overview of the diverse contexts of creativity and research that characterize contemporary sound design practice. Readers will find expansive coverage of sound design in relation to games, VR, globalization, performance, soundscape and feminism, amongst other fields. Half a century since its formal emergence, this book considers sound design in a plethora of practical contexts, including music, film, soundscape and sonification, as well as the emerging theoretical and analytical approaches being used in scholarship on the subject. The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design tracks how ideas and techniques have migrated from one field to the next, as professionals expand the industry applications for their skills and knowledge, and technologies produce new form factors for entertainment and information. Collectively, the chapters included in this volume illustrate the robustness and variety of contemporary sound design research and creativity, making The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design essential reading for students, teachers, researchers and practitioners working on sound design in its many forms.

Sound effects

Author : Laura Jayne Wright
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526159171
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Sound effects written by Laura Jayne Wright and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that the sounds of the early modern stage do not only signify but are also significant. Sounds are weighted with meaning, offering a complex system of allusions. Playwrights such as Jonson and Shakespeare developed increasingly experimental soundscapes, from the storms of King Lear (1605) and Pericles (1607) to the explosive laboratory of The Alchemist (1610). Yet, sound is dependent on the subjectivity of listeners; this book is conscious of the complex relationship between sound as made and sound as heard. Sound effects should not resound from scene to scene without examination, any more than a pun can be reshaped in dialogue without acknowledgement of its shifting connotations. This book listens to sound as a rhetorical device, able to penetrate the ears and persuade the mind, to influence and to affect.

Doing Research in Sound Design

Author : Michael Filimowicz
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000375196
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Doing Research in Sound Design written by Michael Filimowicz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing Research in Sound Design gathers chapters on the wide range of research methodologies used in sound design. Editor Michael Filimowicz and a diverse group of contributors provide an overview of cross-disciplinary inquiry into sound design that transcends discursive and practical divides. The book covers Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods inquiry. For those new to sound design research, each chapter covers specific research methods that can be utilized directly in order to begin to integrate the methodology into their practice. More experienced researchers will find the scope of topics comprehensive and rich in ideas for new lines of inquiry. Students and teachers in sound design graduate programs, industry-based R&D experts and audio professionals will find the volume to be a useful guide in developing their skills of inquiry into sound design for any particular application area.

Multimodal Semiotics

Author : Len Unsworth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441103759
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Multimodal Semiotics written by Len Unsworth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an overview of new developments and applications of social semiotic theory. Pioneered by M.A.K. Halliday, social semiotic theory sees meaning as created through the interaction of texts (including writing, images, sound and space) within a given context. Divided into five sections, the contributors use social semiotic theory to analyse a range of contexts, including the classroom, the museum and cinema. The case studies show the range and scope of this method of analysis, and include: the school curriculum; literacy; print media; online resources; film; and advertising. Multimodal Semiotics will be of interest to academics researching social semiotic theory, systemic functional linguistics and applied linguistics.

Advances in Fundamental and Applied Research on Spatial Audio

Author : Brian F.G. Katz
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1839690054
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Fundamental and Applied Research on Spatial Audio written by Brian F.G. Katz and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial audio is a dynamic and rapidly evolving field, as it is closely linked to advances in computer technology and digital signal processing. The democratization of virtual reality hardware available as consumer devices has moved the field further out of traditional laboratory research, and directly into applied research targeting a wide range of consumers. Advances in Fundamental and Applied Research on Spatial Audio presents a collection of eight peer-reviewed chapters on this exciting area of research. The contributions are organized into three sections: “Acoustic Methodology”, “Perception”, and “Applications”, and cover a range of topics, addressing both headphone- and loudspeaker-based reproductions, offering both methodological overviews and specific case studies.

Appliable Linguistics and Social Semiotics

Author : David Caldwell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350109312
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis Appliable Linguistics and Social Semiotics by : David Caldwell

Download or read book Appliable Linguistics and Social Semiotics written by David Caldwell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the relationship between theory and practice in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this volume offers a state-of-the-art overview of Appliable Linguistics. Featuring both internationally-renowned scholars and rising stars from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Indonesia, New Zealand, Singapore and the USA, Appliable Linguistics and Social Semiotics examines the theoretical insights, questions, and developments that have emerged from the application of Systemic Functional theory to a range of fields. Beyond simply reporting on the application of SFL to particular sites of communication, both linguistic and semiotic, this volume demonstrates how SFL has critiqued, developed and transformed theory and practice and foregrounds the implications of application for Systemic Functional theory itself. Covering established fields for application, such as education, medicine and media, to relatively uncharted areas, such as software design and extremist propaganda, this volume provides an overview of recent linguistic and semiotic innovations informed by SFL and examines the advances that have been made from many years of productive dialogue between theory and practice.

The Novel and the Multispecies Soundscape

Author : Ben De Bruyn
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030301222
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Novel and the Multispecies Soundscape written by Ben De Bruyn and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary novel is not as silent as we tend to believe, nor does it only attend to human plots and characters. As this book shows, writers in a range of subgenres have devoted considerable attention to the voices of nonhuman animals, and to the histories and technologies of listening that shape twenty-first-century cultures and environments. In doing so, their multispecies novels illuminate the cultural meanings we attach to creatures like dogs, frogs, whales, chimpanzees, and Tasmanian tigers – not to mention various bird species and even plants. At the same time, these stories explore the attitudes of distinct communities of human listeners, ranging from vets and musicians to chimp caretakers and sonar technicians. In highlighting animal sounds and their cultural meanings, these novels by authors including Amitav Ghosh, Julia Leigh, Richard Powers, Karen Joy Fowler, Cormac McCarthy, and Han Kang also enrich pressing debates about species extinction, sound pollution, nonhuman communication, and human-animal relations. As we are violently reshaping the planet, they invite us to reimagine our own humanity and animality – and to rethink how we tell stories about multispecies contact zones and their complex soundscapes.

Sound Worlds of Japanese Gardens

Author : Michael D. Fowler
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839425689
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Sound Worlds of Japanese Gardens written by Michael D. Fowler and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael D. Fowler presents an interdisciplinary approach to investigating the sound world of traditional Japanese gardens by drawing from the diverse fields of semiotics, acoustic ecology, philosophy, mathematical modelling, architecture, music, landscape theory and acoustic analysis. Using projects - ranging from data-visualisations, immersive sound installations, algorithmically generated meta-gardens and proto-architectural form finding missions - as creative paradigms, the book offers a new framework for artistic inquiry in which the sole objective is the generation of new knowledge through the act of spatial thinking.

Architectures of Sound

Author : Michael Fowler
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 303561329X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Architectures of Sound written by Michael Fowler and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architects are used to designing visually. In order to expand their basic design tools, this book explores the interactions between sound, space, hearing, and architecture. To this end, the author uses contemporary and historic buildings and projects, but also fictional, philosophical, and theoretical approaches – the idea is not only to define sound as a source, but also as an instrument of architectural space. By introducing a metatheory of "critical hearing", designers are able to acoustically test their projects and contribute to their design with auditive input, already at the design stage.

Principles of Soundscape Ecology

Author : Bryan C. Pijanowski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226824292
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Soundscape Ecology written by Bryan C. Pijanowski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a founding figure in the field, the definitive introduction to an exciting new science. What do the sounds of a chorus of tropical birds and frogs, a clap of thunder, and a cacophony of urban traffic have in common? They are all components of a soundscape, acoustic environments that have been identified by scientists as a combination of the biophony, geophony, and anthrophony, respectively, of all of Earth’s sound sources. As sound is a ubiquitous occurrence in nature, it is actively sensed by most animals and is an important way for them to understand how their environment is changing. For humans, environmental sound is a major factor in creating a psychological sense of place, and many forms of sonic expression by people embed knowledge and culture. In this book, soundscape ecology pioneer Bryan C. Pijanowski presents the definitive text for both students and practitioners who are seeking to engage with this thrilling new field. Principles of Soundscape Ecology clearly outlines soundscape ecology’s critical foundations, key concepts, methods, and applications. Fundamentals include concise and valuable descriptions of the physics of sound as well as a thorough elucidation of all sounds that occur on Earth. Pijanowski also presents a rich overview of the ecological, sociocultural, and technical theories that support this new science, illustrating the breadth of this amazingly transdisciplinary field. In methods, he describes the principles of data mining, signal processing, and mixed methods approaches used to study soundscapes in ecological, social, or socio-ecological contexts. The final section focuses on terrestrial, aquatic, urban, and music applications, demonstrating soundscape ecology’s utility in nearly all spaces.

Advances in Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems

Author : Sabu M. Thampi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811357587
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems written by Sabu M. Thampi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-05 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Advances in Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems, SIRS 2018, held in Bangalore, India, in September 2018. The 28 revised full papers and 11 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The papers cover wide research fields including information retrieval, human-computer interaction (HCI), information extraction, speech recognition.