Form / Sound - Sonic Spaces: Visualizing Sound is a personal research project investigating the importance of the relationship between sound and space. Architecture is predominantly explored as a vessel for sound throughout this project. The design of sound in developing architecture in an imaginative or perceptual soundscape opens the possibilities of an embodied experience, an immersive journey, and a profound drawing of spaces. Space created with sound in mind has vast creative possibilities that can give the notion of spaces not yet known in visual mediums.
This project researches designers, architects, and artists’ explorations with sound to identity how sound plays a large role in how humans live and coexist with space. Spaces with different relationships between resonances, echoes, and physical properties of supposed materials, evidently enter the worlds of storytelling, emotional illusionism, metaphoric design or poetic forms.
“Sound is a spatial event, a material phenomenon and an auditive experience rolled into one. It can be described using the vectors of distance, direction and location. Within architecture, every built space can modify, position, reflect or reverberate the sounds that occur there. Sound embraces and transcends the spaces in which it occurs, opening up a consummate context for the listener: the acoustic source and its surroundings unite into a unique auditory experience.” - Pnina Avidar
