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Legend has it that the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, New York transformed into the acoustic marvel that it is today when an organ was installed in 1890. The curved surface that lies [...]

Acoustic reflection, diffusion, absorption, and transmission all lie on a single continuum. Ink on paper.

A theoretical concert hall form without diffusion or absorption, conceived while Researcher-in-Residence at EMPAC.

The presence of the human body influences the sound of rooms. Dancer: Nadine Medina. Space courtesy of Neil Pelone Architect.

Stagger takes stackable chairs from the 1990s, which were meant to be stored away with minimal footprint, and configures them into a piece that is always visually and acoustically impactful. [...]

Filmmaker Bill Morrison projected a composition onto the side The Tank in Rangely, Colorado, as guitarist and composer Bill Frisell played an original score within this extraordinary acoustic [...]

The Detroit Sound Conservancy’s (growing) library needed a temporary home. Zackery offered to help, and he and collaborator Misha Volf used the opportunity to study the acoustic influence [...]

A 2016 New Museum commission of Anri Sala’s work “Answer Me” was to result in the scrapping of thousands of melamine foam wedges at the end of its run. Zackery and his [...]

The Cathedral Church of S. Paul in Detroit was one of the earliest projects in modern day acoustic architecture. The interior form was laser scanned and simulated, with the result projected back [...]

The shaped surface of the upstage wall of the EMPAC concert hall is a frozen curtain of undulating concrete. Large-scale projections of geometric patterns and simulated acoustic energy allow this [...]