Sound | Making | Space – Architecture | Sound | Music

Architecture | Sound | Music 

The historical relationship between sound and space has produced a series of performative spaces, whose development can be considered to be a reciprocal and generative process. Combined successes or failures have led to the halls and venues we have today.

Developments in both sound and space have, maybe until the mid-20th Century, benefited positively in this fertile relationship. Yet more music is being written for the formless void of headphone listening, and the car interior, with the illusion of spatial volume and materiality being applied at a whim, with electronic reverberation algorithms. If the two creative processes are seen to be divorced, can the creative development of either discipline continue as it had? Have we reached and passed a ‘peak’ in terms of a conjoined design relationship?

This seminar seeks to re-align developments in musical composition with architectural acoustics: how can the reciprocal iterative relationship that once existed between music makers and space makers be reinstated? 

Invited speakers

Raf Orlowski | Ramboll Acoustics

The Interaction between Acoustics, Music and Architecture in Renaissance Churches in Venice 

Max Reinhardt | BBC Radio 3 Late Junction

Playing the Building 

Paul Bavister | Bartlett, UCL

Evolutionary acoustic Environments 

More information

• This event is free and open to all, but capacity is limited: please register for a place on Eventbrite
• Beers and refreshments are provided after the event
• For enquires or further details about who we are or what we do please email: Bartlettsound2017@gmail.com