4F. Free Field / Pressure Field / Diffuse Field

Published: Jan. 6, 2018, 8 a.m.

b'Bad acoustics inspired Daniel Neumann to become a composer and sound artist. After struggling to tame echoes, flutter and too much reverberation as a sound engineer at a nightclub in Leipzig, Daniel embraced these and other acoustical peculiarities and made them the focus of his work. In this piece, Neumann talks about how he uses sound to raise awareness of the idiosyncratic sounds of architectural spaces and plays us an iteration of his piece, \\u2018Free Field / Pressure Field / Diffuse Field\\u2019.'