- Project Facts
- Client: Phillips Academy
- Program: An acoustical renovation transforms a music classroom into a performance venue.
- Project Team: , Jeff Samson
This high-ceilinged room in a historic building serves as the primary performance venue and rehearsal space for the Academy’s chamber music and jazz groups. It must accommodate classes, lessons, orchestra and jazz band rehearsals, as well as recording and playback.
IKM provided renovations to improve the room’s acoustical response and render it “tuneable” so that performers from a soloist to a chamber orchestra are properly heard. The renovation also expanded the stage, added new lighting, adjustable acoustical panels and window treatments, to transform the hall into an excellent acoustical and visual setting for music performance.
In order to improve acoustic performance, advanced sound modeling called Auralization was used to transform the hall into a state of the art venue for rehearsal, performance and recording.
Sound-absorbing and diffusing finishes in strategic locations were used to improve the balance between direct sound and reverberant energy in the room, creating a fuller, warmer ensemble sound and improving intelligibility of individual instruments.
Read the article about Auralization and the Timken Room in Contract Magazine here
