| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Illustrations; Introduction; Part I; Coming into the World; Sound Communication and Spatial Perception in Animals; The Human Mouth as a Sound Space; Sonic-Tactile Gestures and Daily Urban Listening; Part II; The Audible Room; The Notion of Soundscape in the Realm of Sensuous Urbanism; Defining a Sound Ecology of Urban Space; Colour Centrefold; Part III; Auditory Trajectories in Art and the Everyday; Staging Immersion; Sound Attention; Postlude; Contributors |
| Summary |
This volume reveals the extent to which aural perception influences our spatial awareness. Spanning various fields and practices, from psychology to geography, and from zoology to urban planning, it covers a range of environments in which sounds contribute to forming our sense of space and place. The contributions gathered here lead from the mother's womb, through the habitats of insects and owls, to the resonating bodies of buildings and the city, to artistic endeavours that aim to consciously reveal the spatiality of sound. In this progression, the book demonstrates the profoundly constituti |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 16, 2019) |
| Subject |
Auditory perception.
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Space perception.
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Auditory Perception
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Space Perception
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space perception.
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Theory of architecture.
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City & town planning - architectural aspects.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology.
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Auditory perception
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Space perception
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wilson, Ariane, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781527531246 |
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1527531244 |
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