Wheel of Concert Hall Acoustics

Kuusinen, Antti; Lokki, Tapio

doi:10.3813/aaa.919046

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“…For such measurement, a crucial step is to define, or possibly elicit the attributes that are used to quantify the sensory experience. For the evaluation of audio, several sets of attributes and recommendations for developing attributes have been suggested [71,57]. It is assumed that the sensory strengths of each attribute in stimuli or the relation of the sensory strengths between stimuli can be measured using psychometric techniques.…”

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Audibility of dispersion error in room acoustic finite-difference time-domain simulation in the presence of a single early reflection

Saarelma

Savioja

2019

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Audibility of dispersion error in room acoustic finite-difference time-domain simulation in the presence of a single early reflection

Saarelma

Savioja

2019

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…In studies of the perception of room acoustic properties, three aspects have consistently been shown to be constitutive in determining the acoustic impact of rooms, such as musical performance spaces-see Kuusinen and Lokki (2017) or Weinzierl and Vorl€ ander (2015) for an overview. These are…”

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Assessing room acoustic listening expertise

Berg

Steffens

Weinzierl

et al. 2021

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Musicians and music professionals are often considered to be expert listeners for listening tests on room acoustics. However, these tests often target acoustic parameters other than those typically relevant in music such as pitch, rhythm, amplitude, or timbre. To assess the expertise in perceiving and understanding room acoustical phenomena, a listening test battery was constructed to measure the perceptual sensitivity and cognitive abilities in the identification of rooms with different reverberation times and different spectral envelopes. Performance in these tests was related to data from the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index, self-reported previous experience in music recording and acoustics, and academic knowledge on acoustics. The data from 102 participants show that sensory and cognitive abilities are both correlated significantly with musical training, analytic listening skills, recording experience, and academic knowledge on acoustics, whereas general interest in and engagement with music do not show any significant correlations. The regression models, using only significantly correlated criteria of musicality and professional expertise, explain only small to moderate amounts (11%-28%) of the variance in the "room acoustic listening expertise" across the different tasks of the battery. Thus, the results suggest that the traditional criteria for selecting expert listeners in room acoustics are only weak predictors of their actual performances.

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“…As a summary of their own and other work, authors of the same group suggested a "wheel of concert hall acoustics", including eight main categories and 33 items to visualize the main perceptual aspects of concert halls with unamplified musical instrument sounds (Kuusinen and Lokki 2017). The wheel format, which has a longer tradition in the domain of food quality and sensory evaluation (compare Noble et al 1987) is a structured and hierarchical form to present a lexicon of different sensory characteristics.…”

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The Language of Rooms: From Perception to Cognition to Aesthetic Judgment

Weinzierl

Lepa

Thiering

2020

Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing

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Rooms are not perceptual objects themselves; they can only be perceived through their effect on the presented signal, the sound source, and the human receiver. An overview of different approaches to identify the qualities and the dimensions of "room acoustical impression" will be provided, that have resulted in psychological measuring instruments for room acoustical evaluation from the audience perspective. It will be outlined how the psychoacoustic aspects of room acoustical perception are embedded in a socio-cultural practice that leads to an aesthetic judgment on the quality of performance venues for music and speech.

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Wheel of Concert Hall Acoustics

Cited by 16 publications

References 20 publications

Audibility of dispersion error in room acoustic finite-difference time-domain simulation in the presence of a single early reflection

Audibility of dispersion error in room acoustic finite-difference time-domain simulation in the presence of a single early reflection

Assessing room acoustic listening expertise

The Language of Rooms: From Perception to Cognition to Aesthetic Judgment

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