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What is Acousmatics

Chapter 2
Handbook of Research on Perception-Driven Approaches to Urban Assessment and Design
A term that describes a listening situation in which it is not possible to see the original source of a sound being heard. Sounds that are reproduced with the aid of speakers are acousmatic per definition.
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On the Intersection Between Speaker Installations and Urban Environments: A Soundscape Design Perspective
Gunnar Cerwén (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3637-6.ch002
Abstract
This chapter deals with speaker installations and the potential to use such installations for designing soundscapes in cities. Through employment of a designer's perspective, eight intersections between speaker sounds and the environment in which they are installed are brought forward and discussed. The intersections were originally deduced by the author theoretically but have subsequently also been examined in relation to existing speaker installations. This chapter describes and exemplifies each of the eight intersections, which have been denoted as sound sculpture, sound space, atmospheric design, sound and light, sound binocular, sound postcard, interactive event, and retuning of soundscape. Discussions in the chapter cover the role of speaker-induced sound in relation to the notion of acousmatics as well as urban design.
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