Bad acoustics inspired Daniel Neumann to become a composer and sound artist. After struggling to tame echoes, flutter and too much reverberation as a sound engineer at a nightclub in Leipzig, Daniel embraced these and other acoustical peculiarities and made them the focus of his work. In this piece, Neumann talks about how he uses sound to raise awareness of the idiosyncratic sounds of architectural spaces and plays us an iteration of his piece, ‘Free Field / Pressure Field / Diffuse Field’.

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  • Free Field, Pressure Field, Diffuse Field. Composed and performed by Daniel Neumann. Live performance on the Kassem Mosse radio show, June 23, 2015.

  • Baby You’re Too Young. Written and performed by My First Band. Live performance at the Moritzbastei Veranstaltungstunnel, Leipzig, Nov. 24, 2011. Listen

  • Free Field, Pressure Field, Diffuse Field. Composed and performed by Daniel Neumann. Live performance at the Fridman Gallery, New York, July 2015.

Credit

Producer

Willem Boning

Issue Editor

Willem Bonig

Senior Editors

Joseph Bedford and Curt Gambetta

Production Consultant

Griffin Ofiesh

Technical Assistant

Brendan Smith

Announcer

Trudy Watt

Interview

Daniel Neumann