Arredo Sonoro – Dwelling in sound and silence

What does your home sound like?

Every home tells who we are through its architecture, light, materials and the objects we choose. Its Soundscape tells who lives there, too.

And yet, while we carefully design what we see, the soundscape that accompanies us every day is almost always left to chance.

With this book Giovanni Corvaglia presents Arredo Sonoro (Sound Furnishing), a new discipline that designs the time and sonic identity of living, recognising sound as one of the fundamental dimensions of the quality of domestic life.

The fruit of more than forty years of research developed through The Sound Garden, this volume introduces a new way of thinking about the relationship between person, home, music, silence and listening.

You will discover how to:

• recognise the sonic identity of your home;
• understand the role of silence in the quality of listening;
• design a soundscape in harmony with the spaces and with the people who live in them;
• turn music from mere background into a presence that accompanies daily life;
• develop a new awareness of living through sound.

More than a book about music, Arredo Sonoro is a reflection on listening and on how sound can help make a home a more harmonious, welcoming and deeply personal place.

It is an invitation to observe what has always been with us, but which we rarely design consciously.

Because every home has its own sonic identity.
And every sonic identity can be designed.