Sonic Architecture
Edwin van der Heide, Robert Pravda & Joel Ryan
Traditionally, concert halls have
been used to present music
performed in front of an audience.
The architecture of concert halls
is designed to serve musical
performances in the best way.
During the last decades composers
and sound artists have started
to explore new ways to present
music by distributing musicians
and loudspeakers in special
configurations throughout the
space in order to create specfic
musical effects related to the
architectural performance space.
However, what happens when we
change our thinking from focusing
on sounds in space towards
thinking about (a) sounding space?
What does it mean to create an
architecture out of sound? How
can an audience navigate through
a purely sonic environment? What
happens when visitors can co-
determine the characteristics of
such sonic spaces?
The research
will focus on the question of how
musical structures can be applied
and extended to create sonic
architecture. The course will work
towards a public presentation of
the results.
Dates: 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16,
17, 19, 20 february
Credits: 6 EC
Objective: to reflect on and realize
a prototype of a sonic architecture
Literature: to be announced in
class