Fraunhofer's Multimedia Dome, the first digital dome theater to feature natural spatial sound, envelops visitors in a fascinating universe of sound and vision.
A unique study in 2004 from Emily Thompson professor of history and sociology of science at University of Pennsylvania depicts a culture busily rationalizing, quantifying and taming sound in The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America 1900 1933. Beginning with the little known career of architectural engineer Wallace Sabine, from his felt-covered acoustical correction of the Rhode Island House of Representatives to his role in the influential design of Boston's Symphony Hall, Thompson analyzes the checkered (and ultimately futile) history of noise abatement and the implications of the introduction of electronics.
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