Search for dissertations about: "concert hall"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words concert hall.

  2. 1. Musikens rum: metaforer, ritualer, institutioner: en kulturanalytisk studie av arkitektur i och omkring musik

    Author : Catharina Dyrssen; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; architecture and music; musical space; institutionalization of music; metaphor; concert hall; concert ritual;

    Abstract : At the intersection of architecture and musicology, with perspectives mainly of phenomenology and cultural studies, the dissertation explores relationships between music and architecture in reference to form and to the concert situation. Since the 18th Century, accelerating with the introduction of mass media, music has developed its own spatial qualities, independent of physical space. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Value of Cultural Institutions-Measurement and Description

    Author : John Armbrecht; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; value; cultural institution; contingent valuation method; travel cost method; public good;

    Abstract : Resources are invested to maintain cultural institutions and society has an interest in the efficient allocation of these resources. To understand efficiency, the costs incurred in monetary units need to be compared to the value created. READ MORE

  5. 3. Never Heard Before: A Musical Exploration of Organ Voicing

    Author : João Segurado; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; voicing; voicing; sound; listening; pipe; organ; tone; musical composition; musical performance; experimental; collaboration; artistic research; ethnography; musique concrète; transient; attack; steady-state; ; harmonic spectrum; languid; toe-hole; mouth; flue; reed; Studio Acusticum; Gerald Woehl; Piteå;

    Abstract : This study describes the role of organ sounds in musical performance and exa- mines the visions and artistic perspectives of the voicer, who creates the sounds, and the organist, who uses them in performance. Organ pipe sounds are shaped in a process of gradual transformation called voicing, to suit the practice of musical performance, and they influence that practice in significant ways. READ MORE

  6. 4. Studies of Edge Diffraction and Scattering: Applications to Room Acoustics and Auralization

    Author : Rendell Torres; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; diffraction; virtual environments; scattering; diffusion; architectural acoustics; auralization; virtual reality; room acoustics;

    Abstract : This thesis examines ways of including edge diffraction and surface scattering to improve room acoustics auralization, i.e., the binaural replication of an acoustic environment. The approach combines numerical and psychoacoustical studies to discern what level of computational accuracy is necessary to obtain perceptually adequate replication. READ MORE

  7. 5. HÉR! An Exploration of Artistic Agency

    Author : Halla Steinunn Stefansdottir; Lärare (Musikhögskolan); []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; music; sound art; agency; situated actions; ecological; enactive; post-phenomenology;

    Abstract : This doctoral thesis is concerned with agency in the work of a performer, curator, and composer, and how these agencies are socio-culturally constructed. Grounded in creative practice as primary research methodology, the project builds on feedback loops between creation, analysis, and interpretation. READ MORE