The Sound Booth

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The Sound Booth

Iterative Studio, Place Pavilion 02
Dallas, Texas, 2014. Designed and Built by Joshua Nason, Jonathan Essary and Elizabeth Hurtado.

The Sound Booth is a 9’ tall cylindrical structure built to restrict sounds heard by its inhabitants. Built primarily of paper products (shipping tubes, MDF board, drawing paper...) and copper accents, the brown tubular exterior and white canvass interior express the duality of inside-and-out. Once closed inside, a painstaking refinement of disappearing details makes a direct relation of the user to the marking handle. The user searches for sounds with the copper-tubed analog microphone above rotating the top 3’ while simultaneously demarcating the chosen height of the marking handle – the two kinetic components. Once they find a sound, they push the handle penetrating the map, an unequivocal registration of the presence of the exterior event. As the number of visitors increases so do the markings of rotation and elevation and the punctures of choice leaving a detailed account of the event enveloping the pavilion. Once full, the maps are displayed in the very space they depict while the pavilion is ideally moved to a new location to begin the process of spatial, auditory mapping again.