Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?
Experiencing Aural Architecture
$70.85
- Paperback
456 pages
- Release Date
18 September 2009
Summary
How we experience space by listening- the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater.We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dark, and “hear” the emptiness of a house without furniture. Our experience of music in a concert hall depends on whether we sit in the front row or under the balcony. The unique acoustics of religious spaces acquire symbolic meaning. Social relationship…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262513173 |
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| ISBN-10: | 026251317X |
| Author: | Barry Blesser, Linda-Ruth Salter |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 456 |
| Release Date: | 18 September 2009 |
| Weight: | 726g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 22mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Spaces Speak, Are You Listening? is book that would round out the collection of musician, engineer, architect, musical historian, or philosopher.
—Colin Novak, International Journal of Acoustics and VibrationOutstanding Academic Title, 2007.
—ChoiceAbout The Author
Barry Blesser
As a former Professor at MIT and a founder of digital audio, Barry Blesser has spent the last 40 years working at the junction of audio, acoustics, perception, and cognitive psychology.Linda-Ruth Salter, Ph.D., is an independent scholar who has spent the last 25 years focusing on the interdisciplinary relationship of art, space, culture, and technology.
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