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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807879703321

Autore

Blesser Barry

Titolo

Spaces speak, are you listening? : experiencing aural architecture / / Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007

ISBN

0-262-25070-5

1-282-09701-6

9786612097010

0-262-26871-X

1-4294-5531-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (452 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SalterLinda-Ruth

Disciplina

612.8/5

Soggetti

Space perception

Auditory perception

Architectural acoustics

Psychoacoustics

Sound - Recording and reproducing - Digital techniques

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-404) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- A Personal Perspective -- 1 Introduction to Aural Architecture -- 2 Auditory Spatial Awareness -- 3 Aural Spaces from Prehistory to the Present -- 4 Aural Arts and Musical Spaces -- 5 Inventing Virtual Spaces for Music -- 6 Scientific Perspectives on Spatial Acoustics -- 7 Spatial Innovators and Their Private Agendas -- 8 Auditory Spatial Awareness as Evolutionary Artifact -- 9 Concluding Comments -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater.