Agogic Maps From Musical Phrasing to Enhancement of Urban Spaces /

This book explores the value of the musical concept of “agogics” – the modification of regular rhythm to enhance expressive potential – in understanding urban spatial configurations within the current technological context and in developing urban maps that exploit sonic signals to create an open lea...

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Main Author: Pe, Raffaele. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:PoliMI SpringerBriefs,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48306-1
Table of Contents:
  • Agogic in music: The practice of rhythm, from music to space and backward
  • Agogic in space: A scenario for the Gesamtkustwerk
  • Agogic and the space “undulated”
  • Urban spectrographies and the problem of orientation in sensitive territories
  • Space-script construction: Three phases in a topographic transformation of sound and visual material
  • Euphony: Dissonances for a modern urban environment. Accessibility as the temperament of signals and impulses
  • The role of sound maps: A “modern” paradigm in space design
  • Urban sampling, two case studies: Reconstructing the inhabitation model through an aural imaginary
  • The agogic script. Interdependency between aural signals and spatial variables.