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The Göteborg Organ Art Center: An international research center for organ history, organ building, teaching, and performance practice

1998; Acoustical Society of America; Volume: 104; Issue: 3_Supplement Linguagem: Inglês

10.1121/1.424420

1520-9024

Mendel Kleiner,

Music Technology and Sound Studies

The multidisciplinary Göteborg Organ Art Center (GoArt) project focuses on historical instruments as primary-source documents for performance practice research. Models of instruments are studied to fully document the design and quality of building materials and historical building procedures to explore and reconstruct the aesthetic and practical process of assembly, thereby recovering craft knowledge lost during 20th century industrialization. The project strives to achieve a level of quality in tone-production and craftsmanship not attained since the historical period, providing future organ-builders with functional knowledge of historical craft techniques and the extremely high-quality standards of historical instrument models. Research studies are made in collaboration with the Chalmers University of Technology on antique and contemporary pipe materials, development of new materials with the same properties as the old ones, studies of airflow systems and their effects on tone production in organ pipes, collection and analysis of information about the scaling, dimensions, and design of organ pipes, studies of tone production in organ pipes, and the relationship between organ and room acoustics. This presentation will focus on interaction between organ and church acoustics, studies on subjective perception of organ tone, and flue pipe modeling.