Short course on ROOM ACOUSTICS |
Date: Sunday, June 13th Place: Room 1.08, Lisbon Congress Center Lecturers: Dr. Eckhard Kahle Timetable: 09:00 - 13:30 (30 min. break)
The short course on room acoustics will focus on some of the most important questions when designing rooms, especially rooms for the performing arts: what is room acoustic quality, how can it be defined and how can it be obtained? Room acoustic quality is not a single parameter, but a multi-dimensional phenomenon linked to our perception of complex acoustic environments. In addition, room acoustic quality depends on the type and style of performance. The course will present the results from laboratory experiments and studies in real performance environments that have allowed identifying the different aspects that govern our perception of room acoustics. Objective criteria that were defined to measure room acoustic quality will then be presented and the correlation between these objective criteria and the perceptual factors will be discussed. The course will then focus on the question of interrelation between architecture and acoustics (and interaction between acoustician and architect): how does an architectural room design influence acoustic quality, and how can a room be optimized in order to obtain a desired acoustic quality ?
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