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MainStage: Building Active Listening Space on UC Campus
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Downs, Marco Vicente
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242939153
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Year and Degree
2009, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of).
Abstract
Listening is a basic and vital way people connect to each other and the spaces they inhabit. Dramatic and musical performances bring listening to the surface of perception, bringing performer and listener together in the space of performance. The complete separation of performance spaces from their context creates an artificial and potentially counterproductive separation between “music” and “everyday sound.” While indoor performance spaces are useful and convenient spaces for public performance, concert halls cannot replace or reproduce the experience of outdoor listening, and they do not need to do so. While there are many spaces for the presentation of theater, music, dance, and other modes of performance on the University of Cincinnati’s campus, most of them are enclosed, conditioned, and shut off from the outside world. When made fully accesible and spatially inviting, spaces designed for gathering and performance can become special listening places at all times, whether a performance is happening or not. For this project, the ancient Greek theater will be used as a formal and conceptual precedent; its principles will be applied to a new physical and cultural context. The design of a an open-air performance space on UC’s West Campus will serve as a way to explore the relationships between architecture, ambient sound, performance, and place while also addressing issues of site-specificity and public identity. The new performance space is proposed as an asset to the College-Conservatory of Music and the larger community. This thesis addresses relationships between sound, action, and place. ‘MainStage’ is proposed as a complement to and extension of ‘MainStreet,’ an already extant and vibrant pedestrian corridor on UC Campus. The goal of MainStage is to provide a place for formal and informal gathering, performance and listening, hopefully serving to stimulate UC’s community and culture in the process.
Committee
Vincent Sansalone (Committee Chair)
Gerald Larson (Committee Co-Chair)
Pages
114 p.
Subject Headings
Architecture
Keywords
architecture
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acoustics
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aural
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UC
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Cincinnati
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University of Cincinnati
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campus
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performance
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amphitheater
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theater
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sound
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noise
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music
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Downs, M. V. (2009).
MainStage: Building Active Listening Space on UC Campus
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242939153
APA Style (7th edition)
Downs, Marco.
MainStage: Building Active Listening Space on UC Campus.
2009. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242939153.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Downs, Marco. "MainStage: Building Active Listening Space on UC Campus." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242939153
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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