Sonic experience : a guide to everyday sounds / edited by Jean-François Augoyard and Henry Torgue ; translated by Andrea McCartney and David Paquette.

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen\'s University Press, 2008, c2005.Description: xx, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

077352942X (pbk.)
9780773529427 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

786.7 AUG

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	786.7 AUG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Checked out	22/06/2023	39002100463745

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Translation of: A l\'écoute de l\'environnement.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-216) and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jean-François Augoyard, a philosopher, urban planner, and musicologist, is the founder of CRESSON at the School of Architecture in Grenoble. Henry Torgue, a sociologist and urban planner, is a researcher at CRESSON and an author, pianist, and composer.