Interior Acoustic Treatment
Ongoing acoustic treatment of a recital hall, built by hand as a thank-you to my teacher.
The recital hall where I trained had a live, boomy sound — hard walls and a low ceiling caused slap echo and poor clarity near the back rows. Kieran Lee and I are treating it with hand-built Rockwool mineral-wool panels (pine frame, acoustically transparent fabric wrap), placed at first-reflection points derived from the hall's architectural floorplan for the most audible improvement per panel. We modeled the room's actual non-rectangular geometry in AmRoc Pro, a finite-element room mode solver, to find its low-frequency resonant modes and Schroeder frequency (~117 Hz) — confirming the panels solve mid/high-frequency clarity, while true bass control (thicker absorbers, corner bass traps) remains future work. Still installing — a thank-you to my teacher, Dr. Michael Lehtinen.
