Jean-François Augoyard, Henry Torgue (eds.): Sonic Experience: A Guide to Everyday Sounds (1995/2006)
Filed under book | Tags: · acoustics, city, everyday, listening, music, psychology, sound
“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 Schaeffer’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-François 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.”
First published À l’écoute de l’environnement: Repertoire des effets sonores, Editions Parenthèses, 1995
English edition
With a Foreword by R. Murray Schafer
Translated by Andra McCartney and David Paquette
Publisher McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006
ISBN 0773576916, 9780773576919
230 pages
Review: Kate Galloway (U Toronto Quarterly, 2007).
Comment (1)Ultra-red: Five Protocols for Organized Listening (2012)
Filed under booklet | Tags: · listening, sound
Ultra-red’s workbook for militant sound inquiry compiles protocols for collective listening developed by multiple teams of investigators from 2009 to 2011 in cities across North America and Europe.
Self-published
47 pages
via Ultra-red
John M. Picker: Victorian Soundscapes (2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1800s, acoustics, history of literature, listening, literature, music, noise, phonograph, recording, silence, sound, sound recording, united kingdom, voice
“Far from the hushed restraint we associate with the Victorians, their world pulsated with sound. This book shows how, in more ways than one, Victorians were hearing things. The representations close listeners left of their soundscapes offered new meanings for silence, music, noise, voice, and echo that constitute an important part of the Victorian legacy to us today. In chronicling the shift from Romantic to modern configurations of sound and voice, Picker draws upon literary and scientific works to recapture the sense of aural discovery figures such as Babbage, Helmholtz, Freud, Bell, and Edison shared with the likes of Dickens, George Eliot, Tennyson, Stoker, and Conrad.”
Publisher Oxford University Press, 2003
ISBN 0195151917, 9780195151916
220 pages
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