Architecture as an Instrument — Turning Arts University Bournemouth into a Reverb Chamber

The spaces in which music is recorded have always influenced the way it sounds. Long before digital reverberation and acoustic modelling, musicians relied on the natural qualities of a room to shape a performance. Every space has its own acoustic signature, created by its proportions, materials and the way sound moves through it.

This session at Arts University Bournemouth's Drawing Studio grew from a simple idea: rather than recreating a sense of space later in the studio, what would happen if we captured the building's own natural reverberation as part of the recording?