A Light and Sound Transit

by Hans-Peter Kuhn

Leeds - 2006-2009

A Light and Sound Transit– The design has integrated work by Berlin-based sound & light artist Hans Peter Kuhn featuring thousands of LED lights that will generate a random pattern on the east wall each day.

https://hanspeterkuhn.com/installations/a-light-and-sound-transit/

Sound and light are beamed by directional speakers into the muddle of the city's Neville Street tunnel, one half of a pioneering £4,6m piece of linear public art. The other half is a pair of light sculptures, which will illuminate a previously run down stretch of road.

Arup was involved in the acoustic and lighting design. My role was to prepare the auralisations with Hans-Peter to demonstrate the aural qualities of the proposed designs and sound art. To do so, i used B-Format recording of the tunnel but also of external traffic which i convolved with the acoustic response of the tunnel. I also used Hans-Peter Kuhn sounds and convolved them with the acoustic response of the space. The idea was to provide acoustic treatment in the first place but to ask a sound artist to introduce sound art to mask the remaining noise from traffic.