The new A.S. Sonic Garden Lab at Villa Beccari it is the ongoing lab where A.S. is constantly testing the environmental, experimental and naturalistic meaning of our immersive audio systems: from renewable energy equipment to the sound interaction with anthropic and climatic variables, showing up our own state of art in unconventional sound modules design for the architecture, keeping permanently running interactive sound-compositions focused on city noise masking and immersive sound design.
The location, a wonderful historical private garden, it is also adjacent to an intensely busy roadway connecting A1 highway Firenze Sud exit to the center of Florence; being such a significant noise source we considered the perfect location to test our noise masking and artificial sound generation tests.
The A.S. audio system installed is now comprised of 32 sonic emitters, distributed among three independent areas of the garden. This includes floor standing modules such as Sphere and Big YoYo, as well as suspended modules such as Dolphin, Drop, Helmet and Snail. The direction cabin, installed inside the ancient well shack, accomodates the electronic equipment including digital mixing devices for sound processing and routing, computers with multichannel soundcards running our ASG software, and power amplifiers to feed the sonic emitters.