Blesser, Barry.

Spaces speak, are you listening? : experiencing aural architecture / by Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter. - xi, 437 p.

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 -- Concluding comments. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

0262026058 (hc : alk. paper)

2006044046


Space perception.
Auditory perception.
Architectural acoustics
Psychoacoustics.
Sound--Recording and reproducing--Digital techniques

QP443 / .B585 2006

612.8/5