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Champions of Sound
A couple of weeks ago, I started reading Champions of Sound, a new blog about acoustics. I love it. It’s entertaining, interesting, thought-provoking, clear, and well-written. It’s also surprising in the depth and catholicity of the ideas written about. For example, this morning I read a post about acoustics postmodernism. Now before you roll your eyes, I suggest that you give it a read; it reveals how philosophical movements show up in tangible acoustical terms. The blog is also a bit outrageous and humorous at times. They run the sound gamut: what we like, what we abhor, what we need to know, and what we need to unlearn.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I know these people. The firm in which they work, TALASKE, is one of my former clients. I didn’t know, however, about this blog until I happened to discover it when they linked to one of my previous posts (Art, War & Beauty).
As an avid music listener (and former musician), I really care about how rooms sound. For me, while a mediocre or bad room taints the whole listening experience, a good room is positively bliss-inducing.
If there is one thing that really troubles me with the burgeoning development of cultural facilities, it is that so many facilities are acoustically problematic, if not dismally bad. How many chances does a community have to get a new performance space? If the mark is missed, it’s missed for generations.
Those folks who are entrusted with creating performance facilities need to learn all they can to be competent clients when they work with their architects, theatre designers, acousticians, and engineers. This blog opens up a channel to inquiry and consideration that is so very needed. Kudos to Byron, Evelyn, and Greg.
Posted on January 31, 2007 10:09 AM | Permalink
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