| Publication type: | Book part |
| Type of review: | Not specified |
| Title: | Tapping machines : listening to difference, 1928–1956 |
| Authors: | von Fischer, Sabine |
| Published in: | Architecture / machine : programs, processes, and performances |
| Editors of the parent work: | Gleich, Moritz Stalder, Laurent |
| Page(s): | 124 |
| Pages to: | 134 |
| Issue Date: | Sep-2017 |
| Series: | gta papers |
| Series volume: | 1 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Gta-Verlag |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Zürich |
| ISBN: | 978-3-85676-363-3 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Architektur; Akustik; Bauakustik; Messverfahrung; Testverfahren; Wohnungsbau |
| Subject (DDC): | 720: Architecture |
| Abstract: | One of the instruments created in the late 1920s, in an endeavor to resolve the problem of inherent subjectivity in sound assessment, was the “machine for producing impact sounds.” Later it became known as the “tapping machine,” or “Hammerwerk” in German, or “machine à chocs” in French: a stunningly simple mechanism that hammered on floors to test their acoustic qualities as well as the level of sound insulation provided by various construction types. This hammering apparatus appears at first glance to bring architecture and machine into a straightforward sonic relationship. However, the human hearing threshold, until around 1930 was part of the test too, and this entangled architecture and machine in a more complicated relationship, one of mediatized sensation. Automation of the tests relieved the acoustic sciences of this tension. Yet still, the differences between measuring sound with an apparatus and assessing sound by hearing left ample room for debate. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/1446 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Constructive Design (IKE) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Architektur, Gestaltung und Bauingenieurwesen |
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von Fischer, S. (2017). Tapping machines : listening to difference, 1928–1956. In M. Gleich & L. Stalder (Eds.), Architecture / machine : programs, processes, and performances (pp. 124–134). Gta-Verlag.
von Fischer, S. (2017) ‘Tapping machines : listening to difference, 1928–1956’, in M. Gleich and L. Stalder (eds) Architecture / machine : programs, processes, and performances. Zürich: Gta-Verlag, pp. 124–134.
S. von Fischer, “Tapping machines : listening to difference, 1928–1956,” in Architecture / machine : programs, processes, and performances, M. Gleich and L. Stalder, Eds. Zürich: Gta-Verlag, 2017, pp. 124–134.
VON FISCHER, Sabine, 2017. Tapping machines : listening to difference, 1928–1956. In: Moritz GLEICH und Laurent STALDER (Hrsg.), Architecture / machine : programs, processes, and performances. Zürich: Gta-Verlag. S. 124–134. ISBN 978-3-85676-363-3
von Fischer, Sabine. 2017. “Tapping Machines : Listening to Difference, 1928–1956.” In Architecture / Machine : Programs, Processes, and Performances, edited by Moritz Gleich and Laurent Stalder, 124–34. Zürich: Gta-Verlag.
von Fischer, Sabine. “Tapping Machines : Listening to Difference, 1928–1956.” Architecture / Machine : Programs, Processes, and Performances, edited by Moritz Gleich and Laurent Stalder, Gta-Verlag, 2017, pp. 124–34.
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