Author: United States. Office of Noise Abatement and ControlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Noise control
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Urban planning, architectural design; and noise in the home
Author: United States. Office of Noise Abatement and ControlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Noise control
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Atmospheric Noise
Author: Marina PetersonPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478013176
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
In Atmospheric Noise, Marina Peterson traces entanglements of environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through encounters with airport noise since the 1960s. Exploring spaces shaped by noise around Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), she shows how noise is a way of attuning toward the atmospheric: through noise we learn to listen to the sky and imagine the permeability of bodies and matter, sensing and conceiving that which is diffuse, indefinite, vague, and unformed. In her account, the “atmospheric” encompasses the physicality of the ephemeral, dynamic assemblages of matter as well as a logic of indeterminacy. It is audible as well as visible, heard as much as breathed. Peterson develops a theory of “indefinite urbanism” to refer to marginalized spaces of the city where concrete meets sky, windows resonate with the whine of departing planes, and endangered butterflies live under flight paths. Offering a conceptualization of sound as immanent and non-objectified, she demonstrates ways in which noise is central to how we know, feel, and think atmospherically.
Earshot
Author: Bruce JohnsonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000867420
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Earshot: Perspectives on Sound awakens an understanding of the decisive role that sound has played in history and culture. Although beginning with reference to antiquity, the primary focus is the changing status of sound and hearing in Western culture over the last six hundred years, covering the transition from the medieval period to the contemporary world. Since mythic times, sound has been an essential element in the formation of belief systems, personal and community identities and the negotiations between them. The varied case studies included in the book cover major reference points in the changing politics of sound, particularly in relation to the status of the other major conduit of social transactions, vision. Earshot is not a work of cultural theory but is anchored in social practices and material culture and is therefore a valuable resource for conveying sound to both undergraduate students as well as the general reader.
EPA Reports Bibliography
Author: United States. Environmental Protection AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1648
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1932
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, Cumulative Index
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
Book Description
Legal Compilation; Statutes and Legislative History, Executive Orders, Regulations, Guidelines and Reports
Author: United States. Environmental Protection AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The Noisy Renaissance
Author: Niall AtkinsonPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271077832
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern city as an acoustic phenomenon in which citizens used sound to navigate space and society. Analyzing a range of documentary and literary evidence, art and architectural historian Niall Atkinson creates an “acoustic topography” of Florence. The dissemination of official messages, the rhythm of prayer, and the murmur of rumor and gossip combined to form a soundscape that became a foundation in the creation and maintenance of the urban community just as much as the city’s physical buildings. Sound in this space triggered a wide variety of social behaviors and spatial relations: hierarchical, personal, communal, political, domestic, sexual, spiritual, and religious. By exploring these rarely studied soundscapes, Atkinson shows Florence to be both an exceptional and an exemplary case study of urban conditions in the early modern period.
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