RE4Design: Exploring the potential of Rhythmic Entrainment for Product Design

This master thesis explores the potential of Rhythmic Entrainment (RE) for product design applications. The research starts by defining some of the important terms and providing example cases of RE from products and research. A comparison between the cases illuminates the possibilities RE can have for product design and research. [1] RE can...

Uncovering a Sonic Blue Ocean: Moving towards a more inclusive commercial background music ecosystem

Be it for providing a positive customer experience, a holistic brand identity, or a way to combat stress and exertion, background music has been used by businesses for profit since the invention of the phonograph. (Thompson, 1995) Modern technology enables this to happen fast, and tailors it to the needs of the business. Kollekt.fm is an...

MUSIC MARVEL: Experience To Atmosphere: Making The Invisible Visible

The Public Building studio studies the importance of the public domain within the built environment and the atmospheres formed around the relations between individuals and/or groups and the designed building. The task is to design architecture for music, and these atmospheres will now include a very important cultural factor in the determination...

The Modulator: HAC Terrain, Binckhorst, The Hague

As part of the Public Building studio, the track 'Music Marvel' was offered. The goal of this track was to create a music building in the Binckhorst, The Hague, that not only provides a space for musical performance, but does something greater, by contributing something to the location, city or music as a whole. The Binckhorst is a former...

A Comparison of Angle-of-Arrival algorithms for space based geolocation

Geolocation of Radio Frequency (RF) emitters, is finding the geographical location of said emitter. This thesis explores the concepts of geolocation, specifically, Space-Based geolocation of earth-surface emitters by means of measuring the Angle-of-Arrival using a Uniform-Rectangular Antenna Array. Initially the literature is explored, the...

MUSIC: GIS based EPM and residual heat potential

We do live in interesting times. Social, political and financial turmoil, peak oil and nuclear accidents all contribute to the realisation that perhaps things need to change in our energy system. Providing the right type of energy at the right place at the right time is of course the answer. As the potential yields of renewable energy sources...