Comments on: Synaesthetic Filter by Stefan Rutzinger & Kristina Schinegger

By: acro

acro — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:40:53 +0000

I doubt this design’s ability to ‘dynamically’ change the acoustics. I’m sure it would have some effect, but I’d be willing to bet that a blindfolded listener wouldn’t be able to tell the difference easily.

However,

experimental music tends to be appreciated on a more conceptual level than even contemporary architecture… I think this design follows suit, even if it is incredibly impractical. (The beginning of this article identifies “proposed mobile pavilion for experimental music” – I don’t read German, so I’m trusting that “experimental” is a correct translation of the original.

That being said, I really like this.

By: kevtrout

kevtrout — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:29:44 +0000

HouseCat:
I will rephrase: “A room with good acoustics can be engineered to suit most musical performances.” This, after all, is what the statement indicates as the purpose of this pavillion. Not meetings. What is the value of dynamically changing the acoustics of a space DURING a performance? There are easier ways than the one proposed here.

By: HouseCat

HouseCat — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:06:14 +0000

Kevtrout:
“A room with good acoustics can be engineered to suit all sounds.” – NOT TRUE!!!
For instance: A room designed for playing symphony in will be terrible for holding a meeting. There is no such thing as good acoustic design that suit all sounds.

By: slater

slater — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:48:01 +0000

I’d be afraid that the “skin” if you could call it that is not dense enough to reflect sound effectively. I do love the transparent quality of it though. This is a very dynamic form, especially since it is created with the array of those fins. It would be interesting to see a prototype built and tested….

By: Arjan Scheer

Arjan Scheer — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:05:57 +0000

This is a fantastic promiss! I really like to see and hear it built. The theme of movement and architecture seems well suited in the music realm. To resort to experimental music performances in relation to changing physical and acoustic performance, seems a bit limiting to me. What if the space-visitor relation changes? That would be really interesting in my mind for a wide range of music.