Listening in the Rose Garden

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 83-86
Author(s):  
Hugh Livingston
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
Musical Form ◽  
Listening Experience ◽  
Outdoor Space ◽  
The Rose

As sound art finds its presence in public space, sound art in outdoor space is analyzed for potential modalities of new listening experience. In this paper the author proposes an energy map for understanding trajectory of experience and musical form. The author references theories of garden motility, temporality and site from landscape design, with ideas of how introduced sound shapes experience.

scholarly journals Using Virtual Soundwalk Approach for Assessing Sound Art Soundscape Interventions in Public Spaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 2102
Author(s):  
Tin Oberman ◽  
Kristian Jambrošić ◽  
Marko Horvat ◽  
Bojana Bojanić Obad Šćitaroci
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
Subjective Responses ◽  
The Public ◽  
First Order ◽  
Sound Source Identification ◽  
Acoustic Environments ◽  
Positive Effect

This paper discusses the soundscape assessment approaches to soundscape interventions with musical features introduced to public spaces as permanent sound art, with a focus on the ISO 12913 series, Method A for data collection applied in a laboratory study. Three soundscape interventions in three cities are investigated. The virtual soundwalk is used to combine the benefits of the on-site and laboratory settings. Two measurement points per location were recorded—one at a position where the intervention was clearly perceptible, the other further away to serve as a baseline condition. The participants (N = 44) were exposed to acoustic environments (N = 6) recorded using the first-order Ambisonics microphone on-site and then reproduced via the second-order Ambisonics system in laboratory. A series of rank-based Kruskal–Wallis tests were performed on the results of the subjective responses. Results revealed a statistically significant positive effect on soundscape at two locations, and limitations related to sound source identification due to cultural factors and geometrical configuration of the public space at one location.

Extending Musical Form Outwards in Space and Time: Compositional strategies in sound art and audiovisual installations

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Basanta
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
First Person ◽  
Musical Form ◽  
Temporal Experience ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Temporal Form ◽  
Macro Scale ◽  
Musical Concepts ◽  
Algorithmic Design

Sound and media installations are rarely considered from a time-based, formal perspective. In order to enable a greater understanding of temporal form in sound installations, I suggest a cross-disciplinary adaptation of musical form to the installation context. Due to the differences between concert and installation presentation practices – including, but not limited to, the increased agency of the mobile visitor – I re-examine form in installation contexts as the particular temporal experience co-produced by the first-person subject as they navigate in, through and out of the work’s frame. By applying this musical perspective to macro-scale formal structures, a set of tools and concepts become available for the analysis of temporal form in existing sound or audiovisual installations. Using practice-based observation and analysis, I describe several compositional strategies through which musical concepts of material and form can be extended in space and time: each of these strategies provides means with which to shape or constrain the visitor’s co-production of experiential form. Finally, I discuss several strategies that can be used for the creation of large-scale form, with particular reference to algorithmic design principles used in my recent audiovisual installation, Room Dynamics.

The Politics of Sound and the Biopolitics of Music: Weaving together sound-making, irreducible listening, and the physical and cultural environment

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agostino Di Scipio
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Means And Ends ◽  
Auditory Experience ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
Methodological Position

The ever-increasing focus on sound in recent creative practices has ideological implications and seems to reframe and problematise ontological perspectives on music. Today it is possible to contrast notions of music as identical with sound (as in the discursive framework of ‘audio culture’) with artistic practices where sound and music arenot at allidentical, and the usually implicit hierarchy between them is probably twisted. This article discusses such matters from a methodological position that weaves together issues usually discussed in different areas of concern: it understands ecologically informed notions of sound and auditory experience as strictly intertwined with critical and inventive attitudes on technology, particularly as their intertwining is elaborated through performative practices. It suggests that, in music as well as in sound art, what we hearassound andinsound is the dynamics of anecology of situated and mediated actions, as a process that binds together (1) human beings (practitioners and listeners, their auditory inclinations), (2) technical agencies (the domain where means and ends are dialectically negotiated as practitioners strive to achieve a certain freedom in action across the public space of technological mediations and delegations) and (3) the environment (the physicalandcultural context where sound-making and listening practices take place). The general idea is that the manners by which we shape up our relationship to sound and appropriate the technical mediations involved in working with it, are ofbiopoliticalrelevance for social endeavours that might (still) be ‘music’

Call for Humanity - Reflection on Landscape Design of Urban Residence Public Space

2012 ◽  
Vol 450-451 ◽  
pp. 1245-1248
Author(s):  
Xun Zhang ◽  
Ya Wang
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Residential Area ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Creative Design ◽  
Urban Residence ◽  
Landscape Quality ◽  
Environmental Landscape

Environmental landscape in a residential area plays an increasingly important role. With about two-thirds of the time spent in residence community for city dwellers, residential environment and landscape quality have direct impacts on their psychological, physical and spiritual life. Artistic characteristics from creative design in some public spaces,like walking trails and plazas, where there are a lot of human activities, can give a comfortable, cozy home feeling.

Site-Sounds: On strategies of sound art in public space

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Klein
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Sound Art

scholarly journals Redesign Taman Kota Kabupaten Bogor Dengan Pendekatan Urban Landscape Design

2017 ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
IRFAN ADI PERMANA ◽  
INDUNG SITTI FATIMAH
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
City Parks ◽  
The City ◽  
City Park

ABSTRACTRedesign Bogor District City Park with Urban Landscape Design ApproachUrban landscape design is an approach on designing a city which gives positive impact on its civilians by providing a habitable environment. Urban landscape comes in many form, one of them is city park. City park one of the facilitation provided by the city where people can do several activities inside. A city park also serve as a landmark of the city. Bogor district has several parks with recreational function but not many city parks available that serves as a public space. One of them are a park located near the central government of Bogor district. The purpose of this study was to redesign a functional, aesthetic city park that could also be a landmark on the district. This study use spatial and descriptive analysis method.Keywords: Bogor district, city park, urban landscape design

Thinking of City Public Space Landscape Design: An Example of Puyang City Train Station Square Landscape Design

2013 ◽  
Vol 438-439 ◽  
pp. 1805-1807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Hu
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Henan Province ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Train Station

This article is based on the landscape design of Puyang City train station square, Henan province, studies the problems of city public space under different behavioral patterns, and gives suggestions to solve these problems, thus to make better city public space and to solve the problem of space creation under complex situations.

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