Search results for "Soundscape"
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“Sensing” the destination: Development of the destination sensescape index
2021
Abstract Despite the increasing academic interest in the sensory dimension of the tourist experience, the quantitative empirical research in the field is limited by a lack of measurement instruments for evaluating the sensory stimuli perceived by tourists during a destination visit. The study addresses this gap by developing a composite index to assess the sensory destination panorama, termed as “destination sensescape”. The construct is conceptualised as a formative multidimensional variable with 5 dimensions (visualscape, smellscape, tastescape, soundscape, and hapticscape). The psychometric validity and reliability of the 17 items integrating the formative index were established by a rig…
Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Urban Acoustic Environments with Binaural Psycho-Acoustical Considerations for IoT-Based Applications
2018
Sound pleasantness or annoyance perceived in urban soundscapes is a major concern in environmental acoustics. Binaural psychoacoustic parameters are helpful to describe generic acoustic environments, as it is stated within the ISO 12913 framework. In this paper, the application of a Wireless Acoustic Sensor Network (WASN) to evaluate the spatial distribution and the evolution of urban acoustic environments is described. Two experiments are presented using an indoor and an outdoor deployment of a WASN with several nodes using an Internet of Things (IoT) environment to collect audio data and calculate meaningful parameters such as the sound pressure level, binaural loudness and binaural sharp…
The soundscape of the ceremonies for the beatification of St Teresa of Ávila in the Crown of Aragon, 1614
2015
[EN] The beatification of Saint Teresa of Ávila in October 1614 gave rise to widespread celebrations in many of the cities and towns of the Iberian Peninsula. Printed relaciones describing these celebrations, despite their limitations —in terms of political agenda, propaganda, rivalry and literary style— can nevertheless provide information about musical experience and can help to recreate the ephemeral soundscapes of these events. This article will focus on the ceremonies held in the Crown of Aragon, especially Saragossa and Barcelona, taking into consideration the typology of different musics —heraldic, divine and festive— and factors such as the moment in time, function, dynamic, urban s…
Triumphus musicae. Contributions musicales et spectacles éphémères en l’honneur de Charles III à Palerme (1735)
2017
L'articolo esamina le notizie musicali connesse ai festeggiamenti per l'incoronazione a Palermo nel 1735 di Carlo III di Borbone. In particolare si seguono le fasi fondamentali delle celebrazioni, partendo dagli eventi musicali promossi dal viceré duca di Montemar e da altri nobili palermitani prima dell'arrivo del sovrano, per poi spostarsi all'evento vero e proprio. L'attenzione si concentra quindi sulla serenata ai Quattro Canti per l'entrata trionfale, sugli spettacoli musicali organizzati nel 'Teatrino' della Marina e infine sulle sontuose musiche eseguite durante l'incoronazione in cattedrale.
Music, Religious Communities, and the Urban Dimension: Sound Experiences in Palermo in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
2018
Negli ultimi anni la ricerca musicologica ha rinnovato il proprio interesse nei confronti delle istituzioni musicali palermitane, sottolineando l'importanza della ricerca d'archivio per condurre a una ricostruzione del modo concreto in cui la musica risuonava in un contesto specifico. Questo approccio parte da una visione che considera l'elemento musicale quale componente essenziale dell'esperienza urbana, secondo i modelli della cosiddetta 'Urban Musicology' che riconosce la funzione svolta da tutti i luoghi di un dato spazio, non soltanto dalle grandi chiese con le loro cappelle musicali, ma anche dalle istituzioni meno in vista. In questa prospettiva occorre considerare il concetto di “s…
Music in the Dark: Soundscapes in Christiane Ritter’s A Woman in The Polar Night
2020
In A Woman in the Polar Night (Eine Frau erlebt die Polarnacht, 1938), Christiane Ritter, a well-to-do Austrian housewife, describes her experience as the first central European woman to overwinter on Svalbard (1934–35). Ritter’s prose is extraordinary in its lyrical simplicity, and in German editions the text is interspersed with her paintings of the scenes that at first were so alien and changing, yet became so familiar and loved.
 Although stationed on the north coast of Svalbard with minimal human contact and without any recourse to the music with which Ritter had been surrounded in Austria, A Woman in the Polar Night is a text that is full of references to sound, natural sounds th…
Physiological Measures Regress onto Acoustic and Perceptual Features of Soundscapes
2013
There is no exact model for the relationship between the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and evoked or perceived emotion. Music has long been a privileged field for exploration, while the contribution of soundscape research is more recent. It is known that health is influenced by the sonic environment, and the study here presented aimed to investigate the nature and strength of relationships between soundscape features and physiological responses linked to relaxation or stress. In a controlled experiment, seventeen healthy volun-teers moved freely inside a physical installation listening to soundscape recordings of nature, urban parks, eateries, and shops, reproduced using 3D ambisonic techn…
Soundscape design through evolutionary engines
2008
Abstract Two implementations of an Evolutionary Sound Synthesis method using the Interaural Time Difference (ITD) and psychoacoustic descriptors are presented here as a way to develop criteria for fitness evaluation. We also explore a relationship between adaptive sound evolution and three soundscape characteristics: keysounds, key-signals and sound-marks. Sonic Localization Field is defined using a sound attenuation factor and ITD azimuth angle, respectively (Ii, Li). These pairs are used to build Spatial Sound Genotypes (SSG) and they are extracted from a waveform population set. An explanation on how our model was initially written in MATLAB is followed by a recent Pure Data (Pd) impleme…
Grand Challenges in Acoustic Remote Sensing: Discoveries to Support a Better Understanding of Our Changing Planet
2022
Musica a Palermo al tempo dei Chiaromonte: il Liber continens capitula per totum annum (ms. 8) e il Cantus diversi ad usum Panormitanae Ecclesiae (ms…
2020
Dopo aver delineato un quadro generale della musica a Palermo nel Trecento, il contributo si incentra su due codici conservati presso l'Archivio Storico Diocesano di Palermo: il "Liber continens capitula per totum annum" e il "Cantus diversi ad usum Panormitanae Ecclesiae". Dei due codici si esplicitano alcune caratteristiche degne di interesse, in particolare la presenza nel primo dell’antifona "Salve regina" tropata, e nel secondo della sequenza "Victimae paschali laudes" con varianti testuali che permettono di cogliere alcune specificità della tradizione liturgico-musicale siciliana.