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Summary
This group aims to discuss various aspects of acoustics of performance rooms: generation and radiation of sound, room acoustics, measurement, and psychoacoustical evaluation of musical sounds.
Workgroup Leaders
Malte Kob, Caroline Traube, Martha de Francisco, Jithin Thilakan
contact: kob[at]hfm-detmold.de
Overview
In the 'Acoustics of musical performance rooms' working group, research revolves mainly around the 'Orchestral Distribution Effects in Sound, Space, and Acoustics (ODESSA) Project,' which creates large-scale multitrack recordings of ensembles and orchestras using excerpts from the orchestral repertoire. At these recording sessions, each excerpt is broken down in different ways—i.e., separating melody and harmony, textures isolated from the whole, or entire passages re-orchestrated—and each element is recorded using many specific arrays of microphones. Also, extensive room acoustic measurements are taken of each hall, as an "acoustic camera" records a visual representation of the sound intensity distribution in the hall in specific frequency bands. The entire session is then mixed by Tonmeisters. While recordings made by the ODESSA Project can be used to highlight the various timbral and orchestrational perspectives of composers, conductors, and Tonmeisters, the room measurements document the acoustic qualities of the concert hall and include acoustic parameters and spatial sound distribution.
Subgroups
Active or Envisioned Projects
ODESSA III Detmold
ODESSA IV: New orchestra recordings – measurements – systematic analysis
Online-Guide to Room Acoustics for Musicians
CORE Round 2
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