Summit One Vanderbilt: the immersive sound experience over New York

Kenzo Digital, together with sound designer Joseph Fraioli, have created 'Air', un espacio en Summit One Vanderbilt que combina configuraciones de espejos que reflejan la ciudad con sistemas de Meyer Sound, Neumann and so on.

In the ranking of the tallest buildings in the world, One Vanderbilt has become one of the new tourist attractions of New York with space Summit One Vanderbilt , occupying three floors, from the 91, to offer a sound experience, visual and immersive that has as its protagonist the enjoyment of this city with stunning views (more data in Digital AV).

Designed by Kenzo Digital, and named Air, the experience is configured in a series of spaces: Transcendence, Affinity, Transcendence 2, Levitation and Unity, composed of mirrors that reflect the exterior views of the city and inside are fragmented in all directions, that as the visitor progresses on their journey, add new visual and sound effects.

Precisely this last aspect, the sound, is one of the elements that stars in the immersive experience since visitors start their journey in Transcendence. La creación del variado paisaje sonoro de Air it has also been the work of Joseph Fraioli, diseñador de sonido de Jafbox Sound .

As Fraioli himself explains in a video on his website, for the project has captured and combined different sounds, with the aim of creating a relaxing and sensory atmosphere that integrates with the visual experience that visitors enjoy.

specifically, Fraioli details that to record the sound of glass and wind instruments, very characteristic of New York, to the point of including the one that produced a few years ago Hurricane Sandy as it passed through the city and that captured this specialist, has used the KMR cannon microphones 81 and RSM 191 of Neumann.

"I got the cleanest possible recordings of the different glass sounds," Fraioli says., que mezcle con reverberación de Eventide H8000, junto con el controlador Soundwell Dek, that allows you to map sounds everywhere and combine them with different frequencies".

During this process, Fraioli made other sound mixes in his audio room with Dolby, while combining it with mirror surfaces, such as those installed in Air, with the help of the MPS monitors 2520 and 2510 and subwoofers MX350 of M&K Sound, con producción en Avid Pro Tools.

The result was sent to Kenzo Digital to integrate it into the Galaxy system of Meyer Sound dentro de Air, where more than a hundred have been distributed and installed MM-4 speakers from this manufacturer.

The combination of all sound captures is used to guide visitors within the facility and create an immersive sound experience that adds to the visual one produced by the mirrors..

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