workshop title:

Urban Sound Design and the Creation of a New Culturescape.
21 April; 6-9 May 2008.

A Luminous and sonic Flying Dolphin#1, Paris, Nuite Blance 2006, Designed by Brusci&Passerotti&Baccioni/Giardino Sonoro.

Andres Bossahard’s Square Plexiglas speakers installed by Brusci/Timet at Forte Belvedere, Firenze, 2004, Orizzonti dell’arte”, exhibition curated by Risaliti e Bonito Oliva.

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ART BOX CITY is produced by a pool of brands headed by the university spin off SPAZI COMUNI (Rome, IT). Designed by Pino Brugellis, it sees the collaboration among others of EXTRAVEGA, TARGETTI, OLOMEDIA and for the acoustic design of LORENZO BRUSCI / Sound and Experience Design together with the B&C Speakers acoustic consultancy.

Art Box City is conceived to provide public and institutional information along with the ability to offer a dynamic and media space for urban meetings and public confrontations.

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ART BOX CITY è una macchina urbana, una piattaforma hardware e software progettata per lo svolgimento di due distinte attività:

1. La diffusione di contenuti culturali e informativi ai cittadini che avranno a disposizione uno “strumento” dai molteplici utilizzi: fruizione e download di contenuti audio-video e testuali; servizi informativi sul lavoro, sulle attività dei municipi e sulle manifestazioni artistico culturali in città; inserimento – previa vidimazione in tempo reale – di autoproduzioni.

2. La raccolta, la sintetizzazione e l’analisi dati sullo spazio urbano di posizionamento del box. Tale attività è resa possibili da un Software innovativo (SW_ABC_1) programmato grazie al lavoro congiunto di ricercatori di sociologia, psicologia sociale, metodologi, statistici e informatici.

La fisionomia esteriore è quella di un Box Urbano, una “macchina” che non richiede nessuno sforzo per essere utilizzata, che favorisce la socializzazione e la trasmissione artistica e culturale anche in modo distratto, inventando modi informali di comunicare.

Greater London Authority have assigned Lorenzo Brusci/Sound and Experience Design and acoustician Gianluca Memoli (Imperial College, London, UK) to outline the guide lines of an urban Sonic Garden Design approach. We also will be focusing on 2 ‘case studies’ and their actual feasibility requirements.

The document will illustrate how specially designed ‘sonic emitters’ diffusing customized ‘music soundscapes’, integrated within revitalised garden landscape design, can modify users’ perceptions and enhance enjoyment in open spaces adversely affected by traffic and other urban noise. Appendices will be produced including costing and preliminary design/feasibility studies of 2 example schemes. The practical aim is to encourage architects and urban designers to reflect and include acoustic needs and opportunities in their designs.

Wider project objectives:
_ To raise awareness of the principles of psychoacoustic design among public realm managers, commissioners, planners and designers.
_ To encourage development of pilot projects demonstrating innovation in soundscape design.
_To raise the profile of positive soundscape design in urban public space design;
_ To promote innovative approaches by open space managers, commissioners, planners and designers.
_ To raise awareness of the expressive and social meaning of urban ‘music soundscapes’.

Our urban sonic garden design practice incorporates equalities strategies focusing on various types of impairment (i.e. visual impairment, forms of hearing difficulty).
The work will also reflect the background of potential wellbeing and sustainable development benefits from promoting more humane and supportive ‘music soundscapes’. The use of renewable energy / ‘green electricity’ is in our design agenda. Account will also be taken of climate change issues – e.g. our natural watering techniques and planting can substitute or integrate artificial watering.

A Urban Sonic Garden in Paris. Nuite Blanche 2006. Designed by Brusci/Passerotti/Giardino Sonoro

the team invited by Sound Experience Design to contribute to the final document:

Editors
Lorenzo Brusci: Soun and Experience Designer
Gianluca Memoli: Acoustician
Tijn Borghuis: Computer Scientist
Leonardo Proli: City Planner, Architect
Carlo Maria Proli: Architect, Digital Simulations

Collaborators
Marco Veneri: Graphic Designer
Reuven Halevi: Video Director, Dramaturgist
Michael D’Auzion: Choreographer
Giovanni Conti: Interaction Designer
Massimo Bressan: Urban Anthropoogist
Nella Guagenti: text editing

NOISENZIMA a software for City Noise Masking based on real time environmental sound analysis and sound mixing

Realtime musical composition instrument
driven by an environmental acoustic and cynetic analysis

Keywords:
+ restructuring the limits between natural and artificial
+ profound ecology
+ acoustic landscape modelling
+ functional use of musical art, artistic use of industrial technologies
+ acoustic perceptual masking
+ urban noise impact abatement
+ environmental sensoristic system
+ immersive environments

Noisenzima is conceived by Lorenzo Brusci and Giovanni Conti.

Software design by Giovanni Conti.

Software design and the implied experience design are under test and analysis by

A.R.P.A.T, Environmental Protection Agency of Tuscany Region - Italy

Gianluca Memoli, Imperial College, London (GB)

Tijn Borghuis, Technical University, Eindhoven (HOL)

Talking stones, a tribute to ancient memories. by Lorenzo Brusci, test sound module for P.za Demidoff, Firenze 2006/2007.