Constructing urban space with sounds and music / / Ricciarda Belgiojoso

• Autore: Belgiojoso Ricciarda
• Pubblicazione: Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate Publishing Company, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (137 p.)
• Disciplina: 711.6; 780/.071
• Soggetto topico: Soundscapes (Music) - History and criticism; Music - Philosophy and aesthetics; Music and architecture; City sounds; City planning
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction to the English Edition; Introduction; Part I Urban Sounds Set to Music; 1 The Art of Noises; Machine Aesthetics and Enharmonic Intervals; Families of Noises; Noise Intoners; 2 Is a Truck Passing by Music?; In Search of Unknown Timbres; Silence and Indetermination; The Only Problem with Sounds is Music; 3 Concrete Music; Studying Noises; Acousmatics; Typology and Morphology of Musical Objects; 4 Soundscape; Soundscapes; Keynote Sounds, Signals, Soundmarks, Hi-Fi and Lo-Fi Soundscapes; Sonography and Analytic Proceedings; Tuning the World ; Part II Urban Spaces Resound5 The City is an Orchestra; Bell Concerts; Harbour Symphonies; Tuned Cities; Public Music; 6 Instruments for Transforming Noises; Converting Traffic Noise into Music; Resonating Vases; Tuning Tubes; Filtering Everyday Sounds; 7 Sound Sources and Resonance; Sound Networks; Natural Sources and Artificial Environment; Acoustical Perspectives; Sound Sculptures; 8 Public Spaces Set to Music; Sound Situations; Constructing Imaginary Spaces; 9 Tuned Promenades; Sound Walks; Vocal Strolls; Urban Excursions; Part III Constructing Urban Space with Sound ; 10 Urban Sounds, Notes of LifeAural Architecture; Soundscape and Urban Planning; Evaluating the Acoustical Properties of an Urban Environment; 11 Listening to the Urban Environment; The Sound Identity of a City; For a Conscious Listening; 12 Guide Lines for Constructing Urban Space with Sound; Silent Disco vs. Muzak; Community Opera; Music en plein air; Conclusion; Bibliography; Discography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book aims at drawing the reader's attention to the sound of the urban environment. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it examines a heterogeneous selection of experimentations from the domains of music, art and architecture. Significant case studies of pieces of music, public art works and scientific research in the field of urban planning are analyzed, investigating the methods that have been adopted and the aural processes that have been generated. It then uses the findings to reconstruct the underlying theories and practices and to show what might be drawn from these procedures appli
• Titolo autorizzato: Constructing urban space with sounds and music
• ISBN: 1-317-16137-8; 1-4724-2465-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464390503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II