Solid Wood PolyCylindrical
Douglas Fir from Savary Island BC
This piece was destined for Nestor Rivera's Studio. It was one of my first three solid wood polycylindrical absorbers, where I was taking slabs of quarter-sawn fir from our property on Savary Island, gluing them together, then convexing them and filling them with foam. This may be where I was especially celdebrating the name "Sonic Art". Some of this work was done here in my wife's ex ballet studio (the facility now sold) and some work done in Prairie Bible College's carpentry shop on campus.
Panel Absorber Wall
Prairie College Recital Room
This was one of the 5 walls, constructed in 4 Prairie College recital rooms, by Jordan Culp and Ed Yourk. Each room has different designs, and each wall is 8 feet x 12 feet. This wall is called The Compass Rose. If you look close, each segment of the Rose and the surrounding Wall are built as a segmented air pockets. Larger pockets behind the surrounding wall parts make low sounds, smaller pockets behind each part of the Compass Rose make higher pitched sounds. These walls can be used as varied pitch drum sounds, by tapping each of the pockets, creating 4 sonic differences, and in essence, 5 "Drum Kits"in each room. These recital rooms are unique sonic spaces, where creativity abounds.