SONIC
TERRESACT
ADDRESS NORTHEN ILLINOIS
LOCATION CHEMUNG TOWNSHIP, IL
TYPE ARTISTS' RETREAT
COLLABORATORS OGULSHAT AMANOVA
In the outskirts of Chicago, a beautiful site was chosen for this artist’s retreat. It is surrounded by a tall trees and beautiful nature. This project is a retreat for experimental musicians. It provides them with serene excluded experience to motivate their creative minds. In the center of the site a building that includes bedrooms, lounge areas, recording studios, and a a special performance space. The space is meant to inhabit multiple bands or artists at the same time to work individually or collabarate on projects. Around the site, a scattering of acoustic sound sculptures inspired by instruments and ancient monuments are available to the artists to explore sounds. Each provide a unique acoustical effect including amplification, reverb, delays, etc. Inspired by the surrounding sculptures, a intrusion in the middle of the building creates the perfomance space. Due it’s instrument like form, it has a monumental effect to the sounds played from within.
Around the site, a scattering of acoustic sound sculptures inspired by instruments and ancient monuments are available to the artists to explore sounds. Each provide a unique acoustical effect including amplification, reverb, delays, etc. The site is great for field recording due to it’s natural diversity with pockets of spaces between the trees, seasonal changes, and living creatures such as birds. The retreat provides a wide range of possibilities for explorations in throughout the year on the inside and the outside.
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Acoustical form studies / Sculptures on the site




An intrusion to the cube initially mimics the internal form and the acoustic quality of hand drum instruments.
The form starts to change as it reacts to the organizational needs for the space: entrances, levels, lightings, etc.
Evantually it deforms into it’s final shape, creating the entrance, the sky light, and the performance space in the middle.



Exploded Axon


Section

Basement Level

Ground Level

Second Level

Basement Level



