Anechoic Chamber

Anatomy of a Dead Room
The ideal anechoic chamber is a room totally free of acoustical reverberations. Any sound projected into the room, at any frequency, is fully absorbed. It helps to build the room as large as possible..... a smaller room will require more or better sound absorption material to have the same effect.
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(IM)MATER(IALITY) and the Black-Box Theatre as an 'Empty Space' of Re-production
"The body suspended within it is always held in that moment between flying and falling; caught in the act of endlessly dis-appearing."


"It becomes both womb-space and void-space."


"The place s without form - one vast square of empty space is before us - all is still - no sound is heard - no mevemnet is seen.... nothing is before us - And from that nothing shall come life - even as we watch, in the very centre of that void a single atom seems to stir....."


"In denying a purely visual apprehension of built space, and suggesting a profound interiority, the black-box posits a new way of regarding the body in space."


"I can take an empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged."