] Soundspace for Hospitality and Home by Hugh Livingston https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv Sonic ideas for wellness in personal and healing environments en-us 2021-02-04 07:20:55 UTC 2024-08-10 07:05:43 UTC hello@padlet.com Soundspace Design LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1166514527 My expertise in is an artform I call Total Soundspace Design. That means all aspects of the auditory, from the way a door closes to the ringtones on telephones to contrasts between hallways and bedrooms, between shared and public spaces, between the intimate and the open. Soundspace design considers the sonic (that which generates sound output) and the acoustic (that which filters sound to create the total environment). Soundscape Design aids in wayfinding in hospitality and healthcare, supplants elevator music, sets the environmental tone, and mitigates traffic noise with our proprietary technologies. ]]> 2021-02-05 00:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1166514527 Expanding Sonic Experience LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1166516572 Soundspace design expands the experience of sound, even if that experience leads towards silence. By offering total immersion with dozens of invisible speakers, an experience like being in a forest, yet with the comforting surround of the home, is available on demand.  



]]> 2021-02-05 00:11:49 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1166516572 Changing the Way Sound is Delivered and Sensed LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1166518334 sound radiating through furniture and objects
    full surface 
    metal surface 
    whole window 
    furniture immersion

through mechanical/acoustical instruments
Live acoustical instruments, a sort of indoor windchime
Outdoor windchimes that are more timbral than pitched, for sanity

]]> 2021-02-05 00:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1166518334 Themes in the Work of Livingston Sound LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1166526138
  • spatial movement
  • complete immersion
  • generative, and non-repeating
  • associative and interactive behaviors
  • total sensory space
  • integrated lighting control
  • locally sourced sound
  • site-specific 
  • functional: sets mood, reflects environment, suggests behaviors, and mitigates traffic noise 
  • adding maximum variability to water sounds
  • tunability of space
  • capture the sound and communication of trees
  • mirror the mystical springtime dawn chorus of birds
  • make sound experience responsive
  • trigger listeners' innate biophilia
  • steel mandalas with transducers for enveloping resonance without speakers
  • wabisabi philosophy reflected in ‘aging’ of sounds. 
  • feng shui concepts for sound placement
    • ]]>     2021-02-05 00:17:06 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1166526138     Adding Immersion to the Expression of Sound LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1166577681 Complete saturation within an experience…fully embracing both the challenges and rewards — of the environment, the weather, the time and location, and the people present. Full sensory engagement, awakening the sensory pores, action happening in multiple directions, on multiple levels — literal and figurative…a richly-layered experience.
    Profound engagement requires connecting with an audience member’s heart, intellect, and physical/sensory self. Arguably anything that effectively does this is “immersive” — you are immersed into the experience, you lose the normal, the every day, and you are instead submerged into a concentrated experience that heightens your awareness. —Ava Roy, We Players, on creating immersive theater
    ]]>     2021-02-05 00:43:26 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1166577681     Situational Adaptability LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1166578193
  • Generative experience responds to inputs and creates appropriate sonic environment
  • Time trigger for different times of day
  • Associative and interactive behaviors that are friendly to occupants
  • Customizable: individual homeowner can take control 
  • Time of Day, Time of Year, visitor count, occupancy, activity responses
    • ]]>     2021-02-05 00:43:42 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1166578193     Content Richness and Sensitivity LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1627294672 We change the very essence of sound content: too many sites end up with satellite commercial music services, like excoriated elevator music, with no thought to what is local, personal, individual, and unique. By constructing a soundscape which is different every day, yet offers a rhyme of familiarity, we can make an experience which is unforgettable, immersive, and valuable to host and client in any hospitality situation. Technology is effaced, biophilia promoted.

    Natural sound sources:
    • biophilic, locally recorded (dawn chorus)  
    • wabisabi, ‘aging’ of sounds
    • creating sense of time, history, emotion
    ]]>     2021-06-27 22:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1627294672     Participatory Music Enhances Well-Being LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1627296176 Our musical systems propose ways that occupants of a home or hospitality space can have agency over their sonic experience. We are particularly focused now on designing a set of acoustic instruments which can be embedded in resonant cavities in the walls of a room, and activated either by the occupant or by electromechanical means. For market reasons, we aren't saying more right now, but it is going to sound very exciting when we unveil later this year!]]> 2021-06-27 22:27:10 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1627296176 Sonic Furniture LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1627298140 Livingston Sound is famous for its immersive chairs, designed for outdoor meditation and personal calmness, which radiate sound through the surface into your body for a highly tactile experience. ]]> 2021-06-27 22:31:54 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1627298140 Spatialization and Immersion LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1627302168 A spatial sense is realized with sophisticated digital signal processing software which can put sounds in to motion through a room or garden, using multiple speakers to convey the richness of being in the woods, on a river, amidst ocean waves. High technology disappears, and a natural experience emerges.

    A theater artist writes on what immersion can mean for a listener:
    Complete saturation within an experience…fully embracing both the challenges and rewards — of the environment, the weather, the time and location, and the people present. 

    Full sensory engagement, awakening the sensory pores, action happening in multiple directions, on multiple levels — literal and figurative…a richly-layered experience.

    Profound engagement requires connecting with an audience member’s heart, intellect, and physical/sensory self. Arguably anything that effectively does this is “immersive” — you are immersed into the experience, you lose the normal, the every day, and you are instead submerged into a concentrated experience that heightens your awareness.
    ]]>     2021-06-27 22:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1627302168     Speaker Technology and Design LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1627302288 The loudspeaker should be invisible, or it should be an integrated sculptural component of the design. We design our own invisible or transparent technology, often integrated into surfaces like metals or acrylics or woods, and we work with top Italian manufacturers and designers to source the most incredible sonic components that can integrate into design.
    Our other unique contribution is integration of sound experience into objects, like outdoor chairs and shoji screens, so the origin of the sound is never an issue, it is just in you and around you. This removes the artificiality of digital playback, and makes the immersive sound environment seamlessly meld to visual design.


    ]]>     2021-06-27 22:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1627302288     Removing Sonic Clutter LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1644254026 Based on the book by Amber Case and Aaron Day

    • What makes a sound annoying?
    • Not appropriate for the situation
    • Played at the wrong time
    • Dynamics out of scale (too loud or too soft)
    • Distorted
    • Lack of agency by listener
    ]]>     2021-07-10 22:34:30 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1644254026     Listener Control LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647860835 Restoring agency to public space sonic content is an important goal. One should always be able to say: who chose this sound and why?]]> 2021-07-13 15:54:56 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647860835 Environmental Capture LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647871757 A large portion of our process is observation and documentation of the site, recording local nature sounds and bringing that material into the designed environment. We have many unusual microphone technologies, to record the vibrations of the earth, the ultrasonic communications of bats, the creeping sap inside a tree, and bring all of these components into their own musical voice. ]]> 2021-07-13 16:05:33 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647871757 Architectural Space Articulated through Sound LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647873942 Sound can complement architecture, increasing the feel of shelter that might exist in an outdoor seating circle or an indoor nook. Sound can even 'create' architecture, by defining spaces for certain uses that welcome visitors.  Sound creates oasis, defines sacred space, along with acoustics design, of course.
    We specialize in sound outdoors for these purposes, creating individual retreats and group spaces. Our newest product is a sonic shoji screen, which uses sound to create an experience you can quickly shape around yourself for a private moment, and it is deployable inside or out.
    Soundspace Design activates hallways, lobbies, public and private space, allows instant tunability of space so that a cocktail event can be held in the same room that hosted a dawn yoga class.]]>     2021-07-13 16:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647873942     Unique Proposition from Livingston Sound LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647878856
  • Defining soundspace
  • Tuning the space
  • Using elements of nature sound and instruments to create an original composition 
  • Multisensory space, complementing the visual
  • Setting the tone
  • Working with acoustics and sonics to benefit the user of the space
  • Shouldn’t be thought of as music, but total sound experience
  • Design the silence
  • Technology is used to its advantageous limits, but then is supplanted by the naturalness of experience
    • ]]>     2021-07-13 16:12:21 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647878856     Hydrophone (underwater) LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647885970 Rich capture of babbling brooks, but also sea creatures, snapping shrimp, whale song, and more.]]> 2021-07-13 16:19:07 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647885970 Geophone LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647886131 Suited to record deep in the soil, including roots, animals, insects and earthquakes. Also excellent for capturing subtle sonic activity inside a tree.

    ]]>     2021-07-13 16:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647886131     Parabolic Microphone LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647886305 For recording single bird species from a large distance.]]> 2021-07-13 16:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647886305 Binaural Microphones LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647886475 Isolates the ears and provides an extraordinary spatial simulation when listened to over headphones.]]> 2021-07-13 16:19:31 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647886475 Contact Microphone LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647886553 Physically connects with a resonating object, instead of picking up air vibrations, for unusual perspectives.]]> 2021-07-13 16:19:37 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647886553 EMF Microphone LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647886656 Turns electromagnetic environmental activity into audible sounds.]]> 2021-07-13 16:19:43 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647886656 Ultrasonic Microphone LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647886750 Captures very high frequencies, such as bat sounds. Can be used to pitch shift them down into the audible range for instant bat detection in the field.]]> 2021-07-13 16:19:49 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647886750 Dawn Chorus LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647887091 The 'dawn chorus' is the slow but steady growth of forest voices heard as the birds begin their day. It actually begins before dawn, usually at what is called 'nautical twilight', when the first light hits the horizon, typically an hour before sunrise is officially recorded. ]]> 2021-07-13 16:20:07 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1647887091 Shoji Screen Soundscape LivingstonSound https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1650613012 A gentle listening experience (let me just share my screen).]]> 2021-07-15 04:19:00 UTC https://padlet.com/LivingstonSound/y8pezau6mqshd6dv/wish/1650613012