Code: 04158706

Sonic Experience

Name: Sonic Experience
Brand: McGill-Queen's University Press
SKU: 04158706
Price: 40.34 EUR
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Author: Jean-François Augoyard
ISBN: 9780773529427

by Jean-François Augoyard

Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 230
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005
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Book synopsis

Never before has the 'everyday soundtrack' of urban space been so cacophonous. Since the 1970s, sound researchers have attempted to classify noise, music, and everyday sounds using concepts such as Pierre Shafer's 'sound object' and R. Murray Schafer's 'soundscape'. Recently, the most significant team of soundscape researchers in the world has been concerned with the effects of sounds on listeners. In a multidisciplinary work spanning musicology, electro-acoustic composition, architecture, urban studies, communication, phenomenology, social theory, physics, and psychology, Jean-Francois Augoyard, Henry Torgue, and their associates at the Centre for Research on Sonic Space and the Urban Environment (CRESSON) in Grenoble, France, provide an alphabetical sourcebook of eighty sonic/auditory effects. Their accounts of sonic effects such as echo, anticipation, vibrato, and wha-wha integrate information about the 'objective' physical spaces in which sounds occur with cultural contexts and individual auditory experience. "Sonic Experience" attempts to rehabilitate general acoustic awareness, combining accessible definitions and literary examples with more in-depth technical information for specialists.