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  a Reflections from the rear wall with a long delay increase the risk of echoes. Right-angles are particularly treacherous because the sound is reflected back parallel to its original direction.

Disturbing reflections can be avoided by:

  b including absorbent surfaces,

  c positioning the rear part of the ceiling at an angle,

  d including structured wall surfaces.

- MOMMERTZ, Eckard (2009) Music, Acoustics and Sound Insulation, Birkhäuser, p. 17

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1 How the plan shape shape of a room affects the early reflections from the side walls

  a Narrow, rectangular rooms send reflections from the side walls to the seats.

  b If the room widens towards the rear, the sound is reflected to the rear of the room.

  c Concave plan shapes focus the soundwaves, which usually leads to disturbing concentrations of sound

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  a The soundwave illustrates flutter echoes between parallel wall surfaces.

  b This can be avoided by designing the stage to taper towards the rear.

  c If the walls taper inwards a little, the soundwave is reflected back and unpleasant flutter echoes can be the result.

- MOMMERTZ, Eckard (2009) Music, Acoustics and Sound Insulation, Birkhäuser, p. 16  

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- MOMMERTZ, Eckard (2009) Music, Acoustics and Sound Insulation, Birkhäuser, p. 11

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Frequency ranges of musical instruments and singing voice

- MOMMERTZ, Eckard (2009) Music, Acoustics and Sound Insulation, Birkhäuser, p. 8

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Two sinusodial pitches (pure tones) with frequencies that differ by a factor of 100. High pitches correspond to short wavelenghts, low pitches to long wavelenghts.

- MOMMERTZ, Eckard (2009) Music, Acoustics and Sound Insulation, Birkhäuser, p. 8

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Chosen Art Form: Music - Chamber music - Sinfonietta - Aahus Sinfonietta - 17 musicians 

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Trying to see the building as an orchestra

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Chosen Art Form: Music - Chamber music - 32 musicians

The concept is focusing on the relationship between rehearing and performing music.

P3 / Reprogramming / Inspiration

Trevor Grahl - Piece composed for Noorderkerk, 2010

"One of the things he discovered early on was the effect of getting the musicians to play woodwinds behind the doors of three smaller rooms connected with the main space of the church. Behind closed doors, it made them not only quiet, but also like their sound is coming from somewhere deep inside the building." 

- Amsterdam Academy of Architecture (2012) Music, Space and Architecture, Architectura & Natura Publishers, p. 96

P3 / Reprogramming / Inspiration

Forty Part Motet (2001) by Janet Cardiff



"She took each voice from Thomas Tallis' Spem in Alium nunquam habui, and recorded it individually so that each voice could be given its own speaker within a space. Visitors to the installation could walk through the space and experience the music either as a whole or they could privilege an individual singer, depending on where they stood in the room and how they moved through it."

- Amsterdam Academy of Architecture (2012) Music, Space and Architecture, Architectura & Natura Publishers, p. 73