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I keep saying I'll write letters to the Oly Farmers' Market people about various things, and then I don't. So I did!
Hi,
I love the fact that we can now listen to music OUT of the rain, and the musicians I've talked to like being out of the glare. The roofed-over area in front of the stage is a hit!
However, I have noticed that the roof drastically changed the accoustics for the worse. Voices are particularly hard to catch, and volume and clarity are lost in the crowd noise, which is captured and reflected by the roof. I've discussed this with audience members and musicians, and come up with a few ideas to help alleviate the problem.
Clouds -- fabric covered peices of board, or even just draped fabric, could be suspended from the ridge (between the skylights). Clouds 'catch' the audience noise, so it's less echoey and easier to hear music and conversation.
Shell -- an angled, hard surface at the top back of the stage would help direct sound out at the audience. It serves the same purpose as the sound shell in an auditorium, but could be any hard plane - a sheet or two of OSB hung between the back wall and the rafters, for instance.
Of course an accoustician would have a much better idea of what was needed where, but these are the simple things that occured to me as an audience member and a musician. Keep up the excellent work at the market, and thanks for your time.
- S. Kellington
The dastardly plot is to start with this and then move up to buskers rights, or less dramatically, "Please let me play at the market for more than an hour at ten a.m. when it's cold out, and please don't let the palm readers and balloon man chase me away, 'cause they're scary." Busking activism does NOT tend to go over well, so I'm starting with the issue that is more obviously for the greater good of all.
Hi,
I love the fact that we can now listen to music OUT of the rain, and the musicians I've talked to like being out of the glare. The roofed-over area in front of the stage is a hit!
However, I have noticed that the roof drastically changed the accoustics for the worse. Voices are particularly hard to catch, and volume and clarity are lost in the crowd noise, which is captured and reflected by the roof. I've discussed this with audience members and musicians, and come up with a few ideas to help alleviate the problem.
Clouds -- fabric covered peices of board, or even just draped fabric, could be suspended from the ridge (between the skylights). Clouds 'catch' the audience noise, so it's less echoey and easier to hear music and conversation.
Shell -- an angled, hard surface at the top back of the stage would help direct sound out at the audience. It serves the same purpose as the sound shell in an auditorium, but could be any hard plane - a sheet or two of OSB hung between the back wall and the rafters, for instance.
Of course an accoustician would have a much better idea of what was needed where, but these are the simple things that occured to me as an audience member and a musician. Keep up the excellent work at the market, and thanks for your time.
- S. Kellington
The dastardly plot is to start with this and then move up to buskers rights, or less dramatically, "Please let me play at the market for more than an hour at ten a.m. when it's cold out, and please don't let the palm readers and balloon man chase me away, 'cause they're scary." Busking activism does NOT tend to go over well, so I'm starting with the issue that is more obviously for the greater good of all.
