Join Sarasota Orchestra’s Lead Acoustician for the new Music Center, Damian Doria, for a dynamic discussion of acoustics in Concert Halls. As the Gulf Coast’s first purposebuilt acoustic concert hall, this center for music, education, and community connection will seek perfect acoustics with state-of-the-art technology and leaders in acoustics and architecture.
While Concert Halls are expected to have perfect acoustics, the reality is far more complex. Today's breadth of symphonic music in composition, orchestration, and interpretation calls for a flexible acoustic environment that can respond to it, rather than a single acoustic ideal.
This detailed presentation addresses the variables in building acoustical spaces, historic and contemporary concert hall forms, the psychoacoustics and physiology of hearing, and how the design for the Sarasota Orchestra’s Music Center Concert Hall responds to these priorities in pursuit of acoustic perfection.