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- ISBN: 9781604270372 | 1604270373
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- Copyright: 8/1/2010
Worship Space Acoustics is a guide to the design, construction, and use of religious facilities for optimum acoustics. Part 1 discusses methods and techniques of room optimization, noise and its control as well as sound reinforcement. Part 2 covers the characteristics of religious services and how these are provided for in the acoustic design of synagogues, churches, and mosques.
Mendel Kleiner obtained his Ph.D. in architectural acoustics in 1978 and is currently Professor of Acoustics at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, and in charge of the Chalmers Room Acoustics Group. Dr. Kleiner is responsible for teaching room acoustics, audio, electroacoustics, and ultrasonics in the Chalmers Master Program on Sound and Vibration. He has more than 50 publications, presented keynote lectures and more than 110 papers, has led courses at international conferences on acoustics and noise control, and organized an international conference on acoustics. His main research areas are computer simulation of room acoustics, electroacoustic reverberation enhancement systems, room acoustics of auditoria, sound and vibration measurement technology, product sound quality, and psychoacoustics. Dr. Kleiner is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the Chair for the Audio Engineering Society's Technical Committee on Acoustics and Sound Reinforcement and on its Standards committee on Acoustics.David Lloyd Klepper, currently a student of Rabbinics at Yeshivat Beit Orot, Jerusalem, Israel, formerly President of Klepper Marshall King, Acoustical Consultants and Adjunct Professor of Architectural Acoustics at City University, New York City, and previously a senior consultant at Bolt Beranek and Newman, with SM and SB degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT. Acoustical Consultant for over 200 worship space buildings, including the National Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC, St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City, the Capetown , South Africa, Anglican Cathedral, River Road Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia, Young Israel of Southfield , Michigan, and Boston's Holy Cross Cathedral. Pioneer in application of digital delay and electronic simulation of reverberation in worship spaces, and pew-back speech reinforcement. Author of ôSound Systems for Reverberant Worship Spacesö, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. August 1970, two church acoustics papers, one concert hall paper, and one on safer audio entertainment in automobiles in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Also, ôAcoustical of Assembly Places,ö The Encyclopedia of Architecture, coauthor with Mendel Kleiner of ôSound Amplification Systems,ö the Encyclopedia of Science, 34 other published papers on acoustics, noise control, and electronic sound reinforcement systems. Editor of Sound Reinforcement Anthology I (1978) and Sound Reinforcement Anthology II (1996), Audio Engineering Society, New York City. Fellow of both the Audio Engineering Society and the Acoustical Society of America, and member of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering and the American Guild of Organists, received Silver Medal (Berliner Medal) from the AES. Rendell R. Torres is a priest for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, New York. Before the priesthood, he was a tenure-track professor and director of the Program in Architectural Acoustics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and now continues to serve as an adjunct professor. He obtained his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, his M.S. in engineering acoustics from Penn State University, and his Ph.D. in applied acoustics from Chalmers Tekniska H÷gskola (Chalmers University of Technology) in Gothenburg, Sweden. He pursued research in architectural acoustics and auralization with the Chalmers Room Acoustics Group in Sweden; at the Institute of Technical Acoustics in Aachen, Germany; and with the Acoustics Program at RPI. He has given invited talks on his research for the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the International Congress on Acoustics (ICA) in Japan and Italy, and the Institute of Acoustics (IoA) in the United Kingdom. He has published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and in Acustica, the journal of the European Acoustics Association. He is also an active cellist.
About the Authors | p. xi |
Web Added ValueÖ | p. xiii |
p. xv | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Worship Space Acoustics | p. 1 |
Fundamentals-Nature of Sound | p. 3 |
Some Important Properties of Sound | p. 3 |
Sound Pressure, Sound Pressure Level, and Sound Level | p. 6 |
Sound Pressure Level and Sound Power | p. 7 |
Using the Decibel Scale | p. 8 |
Spectra of Voice and Music | p. 11 |
Hearing | p. 15 |
Basic Properties | p. 15 |
Directional Properties | p. 17 |
Masking and Critical Bands | p. 18 |
Hearing Impairment | p. 18 |
Effects of Masking in Time | p. 21 |
Room Acoustics Fundamentals | p. 25 |
Propagation and the Reflection of Sound | p. 25 |
Outdoor Sound | p. 27 |
Geometrical Acoustics, Wave Packets, and Sound Rays | p. 28 |
Reflection of Sound | p. 31 |
Sound Decay in Rooms and Sabine's Equation | p. 34 |
Reverberation Time and Reverberation Curves | p. 36 |
Spatial Properties of Reverberant Sound | p. 36 |
Loudness of Sounds in Rooms | p. 38 |
Sound Pressure Level Behavior in Rooms | p. 39 |
Sound-absorbing Materials | p. 41 |
Introduction | p. 41 |
Absorption Coefficient and Absorption Area | p. 41 |
Porous Absorbers | p. 42 |
Disadvantages of Porous Sound Absorbers | p. 48 |
Resonant Absorbers | p. 50 |
Membrane-type Absorbers | p. 51 |
Helmholtz Resonators | p. 51 |
Resonator Panels | p. 52 |
Adjustable Sound Absorption | p. 53 |
Sound Absorption by Audience | p. 54 |
Residual Sound-absorption Area | p. 58 |
Metrics for Room Acoustics | p. 59 |
Introduction | p. 59 |
Impulse Response | p. 59 |
Reverberation Time | p. 60 |
Early Decay Times | p. 62 |
Clarity-Early-to-Reverberant Ratio | p. 62 |
Initial Time-delay Gap | p. 62 |
Speech Intelligibility and Articulation | p. 63 |
Speech Intelligibility Metrics | p. 63 |
Additional Room Acoustics Metrics | p. 66 |
Strength Index | p. 66 |
Bass Ratio | p. 66 |
Brilliance | p. 67 |
Lateral Energy Fraction | p. 67 |
Interaural Cross-correlation | p. 68 |
Simulation and Prediction | p. 71 |
Simulation and Prediction in Room Acoustics | p. 71 |
Ultrasonic Scale Modeling | p. 71 |
Acoustical Computer-aided Design | p. 73 |
Auralization | p. 74 |
Planning for Good Room Acoustics | p. 79 |
Introduction | p. 79 |
Psychoacoustics: The Precedence Effect and Binaural Unmasking | p. 81 |
Seating Area | p. 81 |
Floor Plans | p. 83 |
Lengthwise Sections | p. 87 |
Crosswise Sections | p. 89 |
Preferred Reverberation Time | p. 91 |
Coloration | p. 93 |
Echo | p. 95 |
Some Sound-reflection Problems | p. 96 |
Domes and Other Curved Surfaces | p. 96 |
Whispering Galleries | p. 98 |
Pillars | p. 99 |
Annexes and Dual-slope Reverberation Curves | p. 99 |
Balconies | p. 100 |
Reflectors | p. 103 |
Barriers and Mechitzot | p. 104 |
Diffusers | p. 105 |
Temporary Structures and Tents | p. 105 |
Rooms for Speech | p. 108 |
Rooms for Music | p. 110 |
General Recommendations | p. 110 |
Organ Placement | p. 112 |
Organ and Choir Arrangements | p. 115 |
Quiet | p. 117 |
Noise, Annoyance, and Sound Quality | p. 117 |
Noise Criteria | p. 118 |
Mechanical Equipment Room and General Isolation | p. 121 |
Basic Planning | p. 121 |
Construction and Details | p. 122 |
Doors | p. 122 |
Reverberant Sound Reduction | p. 122 |
Mechanical Shafts and Chases | p. 124 |
Fan Selection and Sound Output | p. 124 |
Fan Types | p. 124 |
Prediction of Fan Sound Power and Calculations for Room Noise Level | p. 124 |
Silencers | p. 125 |
Diffusers, Grilles, and Dampers | p. 125 |
Vibration Isolation | p. 126 |
Basic Planning | p. 126 |
Housekeeping Pads | p. 127 |
Floating Floors and Vibration-isolation Inertia Bases | p. 127 |
Pipe and Duct Connections | p. 129 |
Chair-scrape Noise | p. 131 |
Sound Isolation and Other Noise Issues | p. 133 |
Sound Transmission | p. 133 |
Noise Reduction and Sound Transmission Loss | p. 134 |
Efficient Sound Isolation | p. 136 |
Effect of Background or Masking Noise | p. 136 |
Transmission Loss Curves of Typical Walls | p. 137 |
A Balanced Spectrum Design | p. 138 |
The Coincidence Effect | p. 139 |
Average Transmission Loss and Sound Transmission Class | p. 140 |
Laboratory vs. Field Measurements | p. 141 |
Effects of Leaks | p. 141 |
Complex or Double Partitions | p. 142 |
Control of Flanking Sound Transmission | p. 145 |
Music Practice and Teaching Facilities | p. 146 |
Basic Planning | p. 146 |
Privacy | p. 146 |
Sound-isolating Windows, Partitions, and Doors | p. 149 |
Exterior Noise | p. 152 |
Sound Systems for Clarity and Reverberation | p. 153 |
Introduction | p. 153 |
Sound Level Amplification | p. 153 |
Increased Clarity or Increased Reverberation | p. 154 |
Frequency Response | p. 155 |
Freedom from Distortion and Noise | p. 155 |
Directional Realism | p. 155 |
Balance between Clarity and Spaciousness/Liveliness | p. 155 |
Sound System Uses Other than Reinforcement | p. 156 |
Basic Types of Worship Space Sound Reinforcement Systems | p. 156 |
Type I: Central Systems | p. 157 |
Type II: Split Central System | p. 157 |
Type III: Conventional Distributed Systems | p. 160 |
Type IV: Pew-back System | p. 162 |
Type V: Distributed Directional Horn System | p. 164 |
Type VI: Distributed Delayed Column System | p. 165 |
Type VII: Horizontal Line Source | p. 166 |
Equipment | p. 169 |
Microphones | p. 169 |
Contact Pick-up Devices | p. 172 |
Preamplification | p. 173 |
General Control Equipment | p. 173 |
Operated vs. Automatic Systems | p. 173 |
Control Consoles and Mixer Preamplifiers | p. 176 |
Controls Usually Fixed | p. 177 |
Location of Controls | p. 177 |
Delay Equipment | p. 178 |
Feedback Protection | p. 178 |
Crossovers | p. 179 |
Power Amplification | p. 181 |
Loudspeakers | p. 181 |
Applications | p. 188 |
Basic Reinforcement System | p. 188 |
Archival Recording System | p. 190 |
Monitoring and Paging Systems | p. 190 |
Surround and Electronic Reverberation Systems | p. 191 |
Acoustical Envelope or Stage Communication System | p. 195 |
Hearing Assistance and Simultaneous Translation | p. 195 |
Production Communications | p. 195 |
System Planning and Implementation | p. 196 |
Design | p. 196 |
p. 203 | |
Synagogues | p. 205 |
History | p. 205 |
Modern Synagogue Architecture | p. 210 |
Separation of Sexes: The Mechitzah | p. 214 |
Small Synagogues | p. 215 |
Synagogues as Study Halls: Beit Ha-Midrash | p. 216 |
Jewish Communities | p. 217 |
Chassidism | p. 218 |
Reform Movement | p. 219 |
Conservative Movement | p. 221 |
Noise Issues | p. 223 |
Overflow Seating | p. 223 |
Room Finishes | p. 223 |
Use of Sound Amplification | p. 224 |
Summary | p. 226 |
Churches | p. 227 |
Introduction | p. 227 |
Historical Survey of Christian Liturgy | p. 227 |
Acoustics for Christian Worship | p. 230 |
Reverberant Acoustics-Roman Catholic Liturgy as an Example | p. 234 |
Typical Liturgical Music for Reverberant Spaces | p. 234 |
Acoustics for Liturgy | p. 235 |
Example Projects: Reverberant/Semi-reverberant Spaces | p. 240 |
Absorptive Acoustics-Evangelical/Blended Worship as an Example | p. 247 |
Typical Worship Music in Spaces with Absorptive Acoustics | p. 247 |
Acoustics for Worship in Absorptive Spaces | p. 248 |
Example Projects: Absorptive/Semi-absorptive Spaces | p. 249 |
Summary | p. 254 |
Mosques | p. 257 |
Historic Development | p. 257 |
Worship Characteristics | p. 259 |
Music in Islamic Worship | p. 260 |
Mosque Acoustics and Sound Systems | p. 261 |
Traditional Mosques | p. 261 |
Contemporary Mosques | p. 264 |
Noise Control Considerations | p. 268 |
Minarets | p. 269 |
Appendix | p. 271 |
Notes and References | p. 275 |
Notes and References | p. 285 |
Index | p. 297 |
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