SHORT DESCRIPTION

Sonic Blueprints: Composing Music for Spatial Experience by Will Copps is an illustrated guide to composing music for physical spaces people can move through. Architectural thinking connects perception and artistic intent to composition and realization, including speaker installations and interactive media.

SYNOPSIS

Sonic Blueprints explores composing music for physical spaces and the people who move through them. Its ideas can take form through installed speakers, AR/VR and game environments, GPS apps, or temporary sonic installations. The book begins with perception, develops an architectural design language, explores melody, harmony, rhythm, silence and spatial behaviors, and follows the work into real conditions. A Program Brief and Sonic Blueprint connect intention to an annotated plan; musical techniques give that plan form. The result is a working vocabulary for creators and a way for listeners to hear the spaces around them more closely.
