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A reinvented archetype. The open-air theater on the edge of the city

2020

In southern Italy and in Sicily, over the past forty years, a series of urban redevelopment projects have been carried out, involving the construction of small theaters facing the Mediterranean landscape. !ey are re-invention projects of the archetype of the Greek theater that establish with the external landscape the same “sense of contemplation” expressed by the theaters of antiquity. Despite their privileged position, these theaters are occasionally used in the summer periods for tourist entertainment shows. Shows substantially distant from those of the past, as they lack an “educational” idea aimed at the construction of processes of self-recognition and identification.

open-air theater Mediterranean landscape theatersSettore ICAR/14 - Composizione Architettonica E Urbana
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Time - frequency analysis in an open - air theater

2005

Acoustics measurements have been carried out along the steps of an ancient open-air theater. Source positions were fixed in several points in the orchestra while microphones, radially placed, were rotated sector by sector, spatially sampling the cavea. Measurements analysis allowed some speech and music sound quality index calculation for each source-microphone couple. Moving from the observation of acoustic quality indexes a time-frequency analysis of impulse response is presented in this paper. Timefrequency analysis of impulse response gives hints for new considerations about the sound field in this peculiar environment.

time-frequency analysiopen-air theater
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