Search for dissertations about: "sound art"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 52 swedish dissertations containing the words sound art.
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16. Åke Hodell. Art and Writing in the Neo-Avant-Garde
Abstract : Åke Hodell and the Art of Illegibility provides the first in-depth discussion in English of the concrete poet and neo-avant-garde artist Åke Hodell’s works from the 1960s. Throughout the study, Hodell’s artistic practice is contextualized by way of comparison with examples from the earlier avant-gardes, as well as with contemporaneous writers and artists, indicating how the avant-garde and modernist legacies are preserved and transformed in the works of Hodell. READ MORE
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17. Numerical modelling of sound propagation to closed urban courtyards
Abstract : Because modern urban environments suffer from excessive levels of road traffic noise, access to closed courtyards is essential in order to offer urban sound environments of high quality with regard to health and perceived sound. To reach this quality, which is described by the quiet side definition, the 24-hour equivalent noise level should be below 45 dB(A). READ MORE
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18. Imagination, form, movement and sound. Studies in musical improvisation
Abstract : How does one improvise? How can one learn the art of improvisation? By consid - ering these two questions this thesis aspires to make a contribution towards a greater understanding of what the production of improvised music actually involves. The organ has long traditions as an instrument on which music is improvised, and this study aims to focus primarily on organ improvisation. READ MORE
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19. 'This heaving ocean of tones': nineteenth-century organ registration practice at St Marien, Lübeck
Abstract : The dissertation deals with German nineteenth-century registration practice with the example of St Marien, Lübeck. The time investigated covers almost one hundred years, from 1834 until 1929 and the tenures of two organists, Hermann Jimmerthal, a student of Mendelssohn, and Karl Lichtwark, a student of Jimmerthal. READ MORE
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20. Active Noise Control of Enclosed Sound Fields Optimising the Performance
Abstract : Active noise control is the art of reducing a primary unwanted sound field by interference with an actively created secondary sound field. To achieve high reduction, it is crucial to obtain both temporal and spatial matching between the primary and the secondary sound fields. READ MORE