When art and function come together commercial design becomes a beautiful thing. Soon to be trialled in South East Queensland is a project that does just that. Black Canvas Acoustic Design and Art Gallery have intentions to create noise absorbing acoustic stretched canvas panels which local emerging artists can produce work on.
The project is a collaboration between Daniel Pye, an audio engineer and project manager, and Talulah Jung, an arts worker and curator. The project not only gives artists a sustainable platform for their work but could filter to other commercial design environments with its practical applications. From loud bars to cafes, and restaurants, or lobbies, function rooms, and offices, there are many places that could gain from some sound insulation.
The canvas panels are formed from non-primed Caravaggio canvas with Australian timber frames. To prevent the canvasses pores from becoming clogged, the artwork will be produced with materials such as graphite, water soluble dyes and paints, and inks. This allows the sound to permeate the canvas to the Basotect acoustic materials behind, suspended within the frame.
Basotect is made from a fire resistant, temperature stable, chemical and microbe resistant, non-toxic melamine resin foam. This makes it ideal for most commercial design applications. Basotect performs outstandingly well in the medium and high frequency ranges, and at low ranges acoustic improvements can be achieved by the addition of heavier layers. Looking at Basotect from an environmental perspective, it can be recycled for use with heat and material recovery.
Pye explains that the project is seeking to solve three critical issues with one simple solution. First, the issue of career sustainability for artists by giving artists an in-way into commercial design. Emerging artists work takes time, energy, and money to realise, yet they are paid abysmally. There needs to exist larger amounts of consistent paid work for these artists to enable them to develop both their artistic and business skills. This would better enable them to pursue careers for themselves. The second and third issues are to do with noise itself: noise issues in public spaces are not taken seriously enough in commercial design, or by venue managers.
The two main areas noise effects are health and connectivity, due to the noise levels in some of these places, people are susceptible to permanent hearing damage, employees are especially vulnerable to this. The last issue is the problem that people go to social spaces to connect, but find themselves unable to do so because they are too loud. Pye hopes this project will help commercially designed spaces to eliminate all of these issues.
The project is a collaboration between Daniel Pye, an audio engineer and project manager, and Talulah Jung, an arts worker and curator. The project not only gives artists a sustainable platform for their work but could filter to other commercial design environments with its practical applications. From loud bars to cafes, and restaurants, or lobbies, function rooms, and offices, there are many places that could gain from some sound insulation.
The canvas panels are formed from non-primed Caravaggio canvas with Australian timber frames. To prevent the canvasses pores from becoming clogged, the artwork will be produced with materials such as graphite, water soluble dyes and paints, and inks. This allows the sound to permeate the canvas to the Basotect acoustic materials behind, suspended within the frame.
Basotect is made from a fire resistant, temperature stable, chemical and microbe resistant, non-toxic melamine resin foam. This makes it ideal for most commercial design applications. Basotect performs outstandingly well in the medium and high frequency ranges, and at low ranges acoustic improvements can be achieved by the addition of heavier layers. Looking at Basotect from an environmental perspective, it can be recycled for use with heat and material recovery.
Pye explains that the project is seeking to solve three critical issues with one simple solution. First, the issue of career sustainability for artists by giving artists an in-way into commercial design. Emerging artists work takes time, energy, and money to realise, yet they are paid abysmally. There needs to exist larger amounts of consistent paid work for these artists to enable them to develop both their artistic and business skills. This would better enable them to pursue careers for themselves. The second and third issues are to do with noise itself: noise issues in public spaces are not taken seriously enough in commercial design, or by venue managers.
The two main areas noise effects are health and connectivity, due to the noise levels in some of these places, people are susceptible to permanent hearing damage, employees are especially vulnerable to this. The last issue is the problem that people go to social spaces to connect, but find themselves unable to do so because they are too loud. Pye hopes this project will help commercially designed spaces to eliminate all of these issues.
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