Richard Talaske, acoustician of TALASKE | SOUND THINKING, discusses the concept of running liveliness with Henry Fogel. Part 1 of a series of conversations about sound in our lives. (more…)

Just seconds after a concert begins, we know whether a performance will be exciting or not. Unfair as it seems, listeners respond intuitively to music long before the artful aspects of performance bring themselves to bear. (more…)

Imagine that you can stretch, condense, and shape a concert hall at will to alter the sound excitement heard by the audience. When designing an indoor concert hall, doing so changes the sound characteristics, and that’s the point. But what if the walls and ceiling of a concert hall are not available to embellish the sound of music, such as in an outdoor setting? (more…)

The first official match under the new roof at Wimbledon’s Center Court took place today.  The once open-air structure has recently received renovation and the addition of an operable fabric roof, (more…)

Open the attached link to review the topics which were discussed when the League of American Orchestras held its Toolbox session on concert halls and performance spaces.   This session was held in Chicago at the Palmer House, Wednesday 10 June 2009 at 2:45 PM. (more…)

The famous opening line of Ella Wheeler Wilcox’ poem Solitude reads: Laugh, and the world laughs with you. It’s a lovely image of shared mirth, and it turns out to be surprisingly true. Psychologists from Le Bon to Freud to Turner & Killian have studied the collective behavior of crowds over the past two centuries. (more…)