Sonic Experience: A Guide to Everyday Sounds, ISBN-13: 978-0773529427

Sonic Experience: A Guide to Everyday Sounds, ISBN-13: 978-0773529427

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• Publisher: ‎ McGill-Queen’s University Press (April 5, 2006)
• Language: ‎ English
• 230 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 077352942X
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0773529427

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.

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.

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