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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 : 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 : 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 : Christine Guillebaud
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317625927
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Toward an Anthropology of Ambient Sound written by Christine Guillebaud and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume approaches the issue of ambient sound through the ethnographic exploration of different cultural contexts including Italy, India, Egypt, France, Ethiopia, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, and Japan. It examines social, religious, and aesthetic conceptions of sound environments, what types of action or agency are attributed to them, and what bodies of knowledge exist concerning them. Contributors shed new light on these sensory environments by focusing not only on their form and internal dynamics, but also on their wider social and cultural environment. The multimedia documents of this volume may be consulted at the address: milson.fr/routledge_media.
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 : Gaetano Licitra
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0415585090
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Noise Mapping in the EU written by Gaetano Licitra and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noise mapping is the first tool to effectively assess noise exposure, communicating information to citizens, and defining effective action plans for protecting citizens from high noise levels and preserving quiet areas in urban European Community environments. Indeed, strategic noise maps are now required in the European Union for all population centers of more than 250,000 inhabitants, as well as for major roads, railways, and airports, and are becoming required for urban areas with over 100,000 people. Providing a comprehensive reference guide for students, researchers, acoustics consultants, and environmental agencies, Noise Mapping in the EU: Models and Procedures shows how to integrate data with geographical information systems, improve accuracy in model and prediction software, and assess different methods and descriptors for evaluating annoyance and noise exposure. It offers guidance on regulations, communication processes, physical aspects, and application of noise mapping, as well as on communication processes for citizens involved in decision making. Beginning with fundamental concepts in acoustics and a presentation of legal frameworks for noise mapping in Europe, the book covers all the main issues about noise mapping. It presents numerical models for roads, railways, airports, harbours, and industrial sites. The chapters are written by European experts from a range of research institutes, companies, and environmental agencies. Using a practical approach and worked examples, the text discusses control and uncertainty in input data and output results, technical recommendations from working groups, and the Good Practice Guide (GPG) tool. It provides in-depth coverage of geographic information system (GIS) techniques for noise management and the evaluation and management of noise exposure, and concludes by reviewing noise mapping experiences in Europe, communication to the public, and future perspectives for mapping the effects of noise.
Author : Holger Schulze
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501335421
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound written by Holger Schulze and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound presents the key subjects and approaches of anthropological research into sound cultures. What are the common characteristics as well as the inconsistencies of living with and around sound in everyday life? This question drives research in this interdisciplinary area of sound studies: it propels each main chapter of this handbook into a thoroughly different world of listening, experiencing, receiving, sensing, dreaming, naming, desiring, and crafting sound. This handbook is composed of six sections: sonic artifacts; sounds and the body; habitat and sound; sonic desires; sounds and machines; and overarching sensologies. The individual chapters explore exemplary research objects and put them in the context of methodological approaches, historical predecessors, research practices, and contemporary research gaps. This volume offers therefore one of the broadest, most detailed, and instructive overviews on current research in this area of sensory anthropology.
Author : Deborah Rigling Gallagher
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412981506
Total Pages : 1027 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Environmental Leadership written by Deborah Rigling Gallagher and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 1027 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference handbook tackles issues relevant to leadership in the realm of the environment and sustainability.
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 : Michael Bull
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000181723
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Auditory Culture Reader written by Michael Bull and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of The Auditory Culture Reader offered an introduction to both classical and recent work on auditory culture, laying the foundations for new academic research in sound studies. Today, interest and research on sound thrives across disciplines such as music, anthropology, geography, sociology and cultural studies as well as within the new interdisciplinary sphere of sound studies itself. This second edition reflects on the changes to the field since the first edition and offers a vast amount of new content, a user-friendly organization which highlights key themes and concepts, and a methodologies section which addresses practical questions for students setting out on auditory explorations. All essays are accessible to non-experts and encompass scholarship from leading figures in the field, discussing issues relating to sound and listening from the broadest set of interdisciplinary perspectives. Inspiring students and researchers attentive to sound in their work, newly-commissioned and classical excerpts bring urban research and ethnography alive with sensory case studies that open up a world beyond the visual. This book is core reading for all courses that cover the role of sound in culture, within sound studies, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, history, media studies and urban geography.
Author : John Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199985103
Total Pages : 749 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics written by John Richardson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides powerful ways to understand changes in the current media landscape. Media forms and genres are proliferating as never before, from movies, computer games and iPods to video games and wireless phones. This essay collection by recognized scholars, practitioners and non-academic writers opens discussion in exciting new directions.
Author : Joy Damousi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315445301
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Sound, Memory, and the Senses written by Joy Damousi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past 20 years have witnessed a turn towards the sensuous, particularly the aural, as a viable space for critical exploration in History and other Humanities disciplines. This has been informed by a heightened awareness of the role that the senses play in shaping modern identity and understanding of place; and increasingly, how the senses are central to the memory of past experiences and their representation. The result has been a broadening of our historical imagination, which has previously taken the visual for granted and ignored the other senses. Considering how crucial the auditory aspect of life has been, a shift from seeing to hearing past societies offers a further perspective for examining the complexity of historical events and experiences. Historians in many fields have begun to listen to the past, developing new arguments about the history and the memory of sensory experience. This volume builds on scholarship produced over the last twenty years and explores these dimensions by coupling the history of sound and the senses in distinctive ways: through a study of the sound of violence; the sound of voice mediated by technologies and the expression of memory through the senses. Though sound is the most developed field in the study of the sensorium, many argue that each of the senses should not be studied in isolation from each other, and for this reason, the final section incorporates material which emphasizes the sense as relational.
Author : Aaron S. Allen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317619528
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Current Directions in Ecomusicology written by Aaron S. Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AWARD WINNER OF THE 2018 SOCIETY OF ETHNOMUSICLOGY ELLEN KOSKOFF PRIZE This volume is the first sustained examination of the complex perspectives that comprise ecomusicology—the study of the intersections of music/sound, culture/society, and nature/environment. Twenty-two authors provide a range of theoretical, methodological, and empirical chapters representing disciplines such as anthropology, biology, ecology, environmental studies, ethnomusicology, history, literature, musicology, performance studies, and psychology. They bring their specialized training to bear on interdisciplinary topics, both individually and in collaboration. Emerging from the whole is a view of ecomusicology as a field, a place where many disciplines come together. The topics addressed in this volume—contemporary composers and traditional musics, acoustic ecology and politicized soundscapes, material sustainability and environmental crisis, familiar and unfamiliar sounds, local places and global warming, birds and mice, hearing and listening, biomusic and soundscape ecology, and more—engage with conversations in the various realms of music study as well as in environmental studies and cultural studies. As with any healthy ecosystem, the field of ecomusicology is dynamic, but this edited collection provides a snapshot of it in a formative period. Each chapter is short, designed to be accessible to the nonspecialist, and includes extensive bibliographies; some chapters also provide further materials on a companion website: http://www.ecomusicology.info/cde/. An introduction and interspersed editorial summaries help guide readers through four current directions—ecological, fieldwork, critical, and textual—in the field of ecomusicology.
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 : Michael Bull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501338765
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies written by Michael Bull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of Sound Studies has changed and developed dramatically over the last two decades involving a vast and dizzying array of work produced by those working in the arts, social sciences and sciences. The study of sound is inherently interdisciplinary and is undertaken both by those who specialize in sound and by others who wish to include sound as an intrinsic and indispensable element in their research. This is the first resource to provide a wide ranging, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary investigation and analysis of the ways in which researchers use a broad range of methodologies in order to pursue their sonic investigations. It brings together 49 specially commissioned chapters that ask a wide range of questions including; how can sound be used in current academic disciplines? Is sound as a methodological tool indispensable for Sound Studies and what can sound artists contribute to the discourse on methodology in Sound Studies? The editors also present 3 original chapters that work as provocative 'sonic methodological interventions' prefacing the 3 sections of the book.
Author : Dmitri Zakharine
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3847100246
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Electrified Voices written by Dmitri Zakharine and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2013 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to explore the phenomenon of the electrified voice through interdisciplinary approaches such as media and technology studies, social history, and comparative cultural studies. The book focuses on three problem clusters: reflections on the societal level about the task of electronic voice transmission; the mediation of gender- and occupation-specific vocal stereotypes in audio and audio-visual formats; and the genesis of such vocal stereotypes in national radio and film cultures. Such a historicizing approach to societal experience in the field of voice mediation, including the use and interpretation of voice media, is today of great relevance in light of the collective learning processes currently triggered by rapid advances in technology.
