Title:
Spaces speak, are you listening? : experiencing aural architecture / Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter.
Author:
Blesser, Barry.
Salter, Linda-Ruth.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, 2009.
Call Number:
QP443 .B585 2009
Abstract:
How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater.
ISBN:
9780262513173
Physical Description:
437 pages : 23 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: 2006.
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- A personal perspective -- 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 -- Concluding comments -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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