• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.356-362
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• 2018

Stage in classical shoebox type concert hall is placed and occupy one side of the hall and have much early reflections from surrounded walls and ceiling nearby. On the other hand stage in vinyard terrace concert hall, which is surrounded by terrace seats instead of walls and ceiling, has lack of early reflections which may cause lack of communications among the players. Vinyard hall stage is enclosed with terrace seats front walls, while the players located on the stage riser keep the walls off as the walls have limited heights. Ensemble reflector installed above the stage is an effective way for the players to monitor the sound produced on the stage. That may help achieving a good ensemble of the performance. Ensemble reflector over the stage of a large vinyard terrace hall of 2,000 seats was designed with the variables of the location, the shape and the area. The effectiveness of the ensemble reflector is verified with the parameter of stage support.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.87-91
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• 2005

The effects of the movable reflectors on the stage acoustics in Seoul's Sejong Performing Arts Center (3,048-seat multi-purpose hall, stage area of $270m^2$ within an orchestra shell) and Ceramic Palace Hall (440-seat concert hall, stage area of $105m^2$) were investigated. Acoustical parameters were evaluated by measuring stage and audience acoustics in the two halls. The study was primarily based on the stage support parameter STI proposed by Gade (Acustica 65, pp.193-203, 1989). Results showed that STI varied on the stage of the large hall according to the position of the reflectors, whereas STI did not vary in the small hall. In the large hall, a smaller clear stage area (bounded by the reflectors) yields an increase in both STI and other early energy measures. In the small hall, early energy decreases when its stage's surface diffusion was covered with specular reflectors.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.505-508
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• 2002

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.429-436
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• 2012

In concert halls and auditoriums, acoustic reflector and stage enclosure is one of the main factors on the room and stage acoustic characteristics. As a stage enclosure and acoustic reflector honey comb based light-weight reflector is widely used, because it is easy to install. However, there was not enough research on the surface density effect on room and stage acoustics. In this study, sound absorption coefficient tests on three kinds of wooden acoustic reflectors with different surface density were conducted. Surface density of acoustic reflector was changed from 11 kg/$m^2$ to 41 kg/$m^2$. For the low frequency excitation, sub-woofer was used with omnidirectional loud-speaker simultaneously. From the experiments, it was found that sound absorption coefficient below 250 Hz band was decrease by the increment of surface density. In order to check the influence of the surface density on room and stage acoustic parameters, room acoustic simulation was conducted with sound absorption coefficients, which were tested in reverberation chamber. By the increment of surface density of acoustic reflector, RT(reverberation time) and EDT(early decay time) were increased. Also, ST(stage support) was improved in low frequency bands.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.558-567
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• 2019

When used for broadcasting, multipurpose halls need to accommodate various types of programs such as speeches, Korean traditional music, musicals, pop music, and concerts. Therefore, multipurpose halls must meet a wide range of electric and architectural acoustic demands. However, there are few ways to alter acoustic environments for multipurpose halls, given these different demands. The current study investigates the effects of banners on acoustic environments in the presence of an acoustic shell or electric acoustic system. The results indicate that the installation of a 15% banner of wall area could vary the range of reverberation time ($T_{30}$) by 0.12 s, EDT (Early Decay Time) by 0.15 s, clarity of music ($C_{80}$) by 0.76 dB, and clarity of speech ($D_{50}$) by 6.43 % under different measurement circumstances. A computer simulation that enlarges the banner size to 40 % of the wall area varies the reverberation time from 0.11 s to 0.55 s depending on the room environment.