be utilized to re-calibrate performance
infrastructural platform for a variety
spaces relative to audience position, size
of sensing and control technologies for
and spatial distribution. Alternatively, in
acoustic and interactive responsiveness.
service of universal accessibility, individual
Microphone-based systems can prioritize
occupants’ hearing requirements can be
sound level samples to an average decibel
addressed through the use of customized
range and inform the sound dampening
identifying receivers, providing location
cells to adjust accordingly, allowing more
information to the system, which in turn
or less reverberation and optimizing aural
adjusts local aural conditions to suit
conditions for listening to specific types of
individual capacities. These variations in
music or performance. Multi-modal sensors
controls logic combined with the system’s
such as the Kinect can dynamically track
formal flexibility enable a range of potential
locations of sources and receivers and may
architectural acoustic applications. D
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The prototype system forms an intelligent
System Prototyping and Assembly An iterative process of making, testing and system refinement was central to the project.