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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pe, Raffaele
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Series:PoliMI SpringerBriefs
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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