Echo ...Seriously, really (sorry)

[Ron Nossaman]

> > I'd have probably had to talk to the architect at
> > some time during the project,
>
>The School where my former wife teaches built a new music building with
>two choir rooms and a super nice band room.  There is not one single 90
>degree surface in the room.  The walls are tilted off vertical and the
>ceiling is not horizontal and the walls are set at acute or obtuse
>angles to each other.  The acoustics are wonderful and the angles are
>only noticeable if you look for them or when drunk.  It is upsetting
>when the floor tiles get narrower and narrower and narrower and  ...
>hic.
>
>The teachers love them.
>
>Have a fantastic weak all, and don't let the echoes catch you. :)
>
>                 Newton


It can be made to work, glass, marble floors and all, and it's wonderful 
when it does. It just too often doesn't, and isn't. Unfortunately, the 
architectural control committee can't hear the echoes on the color 
elevations when they're making up the wish list. Where's the acoustics 
module for the virtual reality walk-through? That should be about doable in 
software by now. A sort of ray tracing system for sound, with echo timing 
added, so the architects that don't want to or haven't learned to design 
aurally can still produce an acceptable and appropriate acoustic response 
with their design. You know - at least do no harm.


Ron N