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

Main entry:

Blesser, Barry.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, c2007.

Description:

xi, 437 p. : ill. ; 24cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to aural architecture -- Auditory spatial awareness -- Aural space from prehistory to the present -- Aural arts and musical spaces -- Inventing virtual spaces for music -- Scientific perspectives on spatial acoustics -- Spatial innovators and their private agendas -- Auditory spatial awareness as evolutionary artifact

Summary:

'Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?' establishes the concepts and language of aural architecture. These concepts provide an interdisciplinary guide for anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of how space enhances our well-being.

ISBN:

9780262026055 (hbk.)
0262026058 (hbk.)

Subject:

Space perception.
Auditory perception.
Architectural acoustics.
Psychoacoustics.
Sound Recording and reproducing Digital techniques.
Space Perception
Auditory Perception
Perception spatiale.
Perception auditive.
Acoustique architecturale.
Psychoacoustique.
space perception.

Added entries:

Salter, Linda-Ruth.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249542
Call No.: BIB 179134
Status: Available

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