“Music as an Interventional Design Tool for Urban Designers” by Petrovski, Parthenios, Oikonomou and Mania
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Entry Number: 68
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- Music as an Interventional Design Tool for Urban Designers
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At first look, music and architecture seem unrelated, but they share features such as composition, rhythm, repetition and analogies. Acoustic data encoded from the built environment provides a valuable platform on which discordant and imbalanced parts can be highlighted [Liapi et al. 2011]. The cognitive process of analyzing today’s chaotic urban eco-system can be augmented with cross-modal understanding and intervening through the ecosystem’s musical footprint. Based on a grammar which connects musical with architectural elements, we present a system that offers sonification of an Urban Virtual Environment (UVE), simulating a real-world cityscape, offering visual interpretation and interactive modification of its soundscape (Figure 1).
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- Liapi M., Parthenios P., Tomara A. 2011. Translating Urban Environment to Music: A Proposal for an Augmented Perception of our Cities through their Music Imprint. XV SIGraDi Augmented Culture, Argentina, 16–18
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