Acoustics standards comparison between performing arts centre

Abstract

A Performing Arts Centre is a venue that needs optimum acoustic. Many art performances generate high intensity sounds that auditoriums in the building are installed with acoustic systems. Acoustic system is used to reduce the intensity of sounds, for the purpose of giving the audience and performers an ease in listening and producing sounds. Other factors that could affect the ease of audio are the design of the auditorium, the materials that are used to cover the walls and ceiling of the auditorium and the capacity of the auditorium. The research aims to analyze acoustic systems that are optimal to use in an auditorium for performing arts with qualitative methods by using secondary data from case studies and literature related to acoustic systems in performing arts centre by comparing the design of the auditorium alongside the capacity of the hall and the materials that are used to cover the surfaces of the performing arts centre according to acoustic standards referred in Acoustics of Multi-use Performing Arts Centres and Building Physics 2. It is concluded that Benjamin and Marian Schsuter Performing Arts Centre has the optimal acoustic system.