Sonic Experience: A Guide to Everyday Sounds - Hardcover

Augoyard, Jean-François; Torgue, Henri

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773525483 ISBN 13: 9780773525481

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This brilliant book on the effects of sound on listeners is itself a stimulating listening experience, says composer R. Murray Schafer.

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Review:

"Reading this book is like a stimulating listening experience: I found myself measuring the effects of sounds heard, overheard, or imagined." R. Murray Schafer, composer and author of The Tuning of the World

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0773525483
• ISBN 13: 9780773525481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 230