MATTEO MELIOLI

Any space can be perceived through sound –we can all sense spatial geometry, we can picture the depth and height of a space even with our eyes closed. The sound reflected off walls creates an aural stimulus through which we become aware of the surrounding space, its properties and its shape. Space thus becomes ‘audible’: it is expressed with an aural manifestation which parallels visual and tactile ones.

Common sense shows that humans can transform the acoustic attributes of objects and geometries into three-dimensional images. Our sensorial capacity to ‘understand’ a space through its sounds can be called ‘auditory spatial awareness’ and it defines how people experience aural space and how sound is transformed into three-dimensional ‘visible’ images.