Designed by Jerome Spriet + Wolfgang Bregentzer Acoustable is born out of a reflection on music and ways of listening to it.

The idea of an object which combines good acoustics with user-friendly ergonomics arises from these considerations. The coffee table at the centre of the room becomes the sound system and the power terminal.

There are no visible technical elements, only the player and a remote which can both be stored in a built in pocket.

Acoustable is made from a polymer and mineral blend that combines the advantages of stone and plastic.

The i24R3Portable is an extension of the i24R3 wireless speaker project collaboration between EOps and Michael Young studio. The i24R3Portable is a family of portable speakers with various specific functional configurations to suit different user lifestyles.

"This project is about a serious portable waterproof speaker, I have always wanted one myself but there are big constraints to achieve the best sound quality while being waterproof and lightweight. The conventional waterproof speaker drivers are simply not up to the job. We have achieved a fundamental improvement in waterproof portable speaker design by using a totally sealed sound chamber design with light weight and powerful flat panel speakers and passive radiators which can provide really strong music perfomance. And the circular form and the thickness of the i24R3Portable speaker happens to be the most appropriate form that can satisfy the challenging engineering requirement and coincidentally also look nice with the original i24R3 wireless speaker system. The i24R3Portable comes with a tube stand that is very unconventional for a portable speaker. The tube stand is something playful but people can use it like a handle for portability like carrying the speaker from indoor living room to the balcony but it is also removable so that people can mount the speaker in the wall if they want.", Michael Young (UK).

The different versions available allow the user to listen to music via PC or Mac computers, mobile phones, IPhones or MP3Players.

We already told you that our Forum is frequented by many talented people. Today, we would like to introduce you to one of them who is a very active participant to the forum since more than 4 years! Posting under the name of Whitespike, Jakob Clark is a graphic artist based in Austin, Texas. Although his work is very versatile, his main inspiration comes from the mid-century modern movement.
Here is some of his work. Congratulations Jakob!

 Jakob also plays excellent music in a rock band called Living Better Electrically.

'Fifteen Pieces for a Soundscape - First Movement' is an architectural installation that is the result of geometrical experiments and investigations of 20th century music undertaken by the Städelschule Architectural Class during the last six months.

The resulting investigations have included encounters with work spanning from the experiments and recordings of Glenn Gould, via compositions of the late Karlheinz Stockhausen, to the varied work of Brian Eno.

The exhibition attempts to make sense of the evasive interface between time and space in architecture through the logics of music and matter. It presents a speculative synthesis of the temporal and auditory with the presumed stasis of the architectural object. In this sense, the exhibition continues a tradition that in modern architectural terms revolves around the Philips Pavilion Poème Electronique, by Le Corbusier, Iannis Xenakis, and Edgar Varèse (1958). In comparison, 'Fifteen Pieces for a Soundscape - First Movement' is a modest endeavour, but it explores the same vibrant interface that bears on our senses and to which architecture contributes more than material silence.

The fourteen objects are presented as floating, effervescent singularities within a space conceived as a whole, embracing and silent soundscape. The fourteen pieces are scaled, transformed and completed in the fifteenth piece, the visual backdrop formed by the photographic banners.

Conceived and directed by professors Ben van Berkel, Sanford Kwinter, and Johan Bettum with Luis Etchegorry.
The exhibition by the Städelschule Architecture Class takes place in Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt am Main, from February 8 to April 30, 2008