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Altempo Design Research Group Is Honored with the A' Design Award for Shatron Mute for Trumpet in Musical Instruments Design
Altempo Design Research Group acknowledged for musical instruments design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Musical Instruments Design category for Shatron Mute for Trumpet by Altempo Design Research Group, designed for CIAUD - Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design. The recognition forms part of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About Shatron Mute for Trumpet
Shatron is a modular mute for the trumpet. The mute softens and warms the tone, producing sounds that are less strident in the high register than those of metal mutes. The support structure is made by three dimensional printing with a polymeric filament reinforced with carbon fiber, which gives rigidity and durability. Ten wooden panels of different densities form the walls, so the sound can be adjusted to the player. The wood comes from small offcuts of furniture production that are usually discarded. The form follows the pyramidal roofs of early Russian churches.
About Altempo Design Research Group
Liliana Soares is Professor Coordinator at the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo (IPVC-Portugal) since 2024. She finished her Pos-Phd in Design at Architecture Faculty of Lisbon (FA.UL, Portugal) in 2022 under the supervision of Rita Almendra and Fernando Moreira da Silva, presented her PhD in Design at University of Aveiro in 2012 supervised by Dante Donegany (NABA Faculty, Italy) and Fátima Pombo (UA), with a scholarship of Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal) and holds a Master in Management from the Euro-Arab Management School, Granada (Spain) supervised by Celia De Anca (IE University, Spain), with a scholarship of the Euro-Arab Foundation.
Award Record
Altempo Design Research Group is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Musical Instruments Design Award
The A' Musical Instrument Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good musical instruments by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to musical instrument designers, industrial designers, music instrument producers and acoustic engineers from all countries. Entries typically include guitars, pianos, violins, drums, saxophones and flutes. Awarded musical instrument designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/musical-instrument
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://desingers.org/101028
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/101028
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!101028
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/270118
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bit.ly/32nmcd4
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Shatron Mute for Trumpet
- Function
- Mute for Trumpet
- Category
- Musical Instruments Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Arts and Entertainment
- Colors
- Burly Wood, Rosy Brown, Peru, Dim Gray and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- CIAUD - Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Altempo Design Research Group
- Country
- Portugal
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #101028
Credits
- Team
- Designer, Liliana Soares: Designer, João Teixeira: Designer and Jorge Passos: Designer
- Image Credits
- Main Image: Photographer José Pedro Melo Option; Photographer José Pedro Melo Option; Photographer/Videomaker Flávio Cruz (Ponto de Vista Audiovisuais) Video_Shatron: Photographer/Videomaker Flávio Cruz (Ponto de Vista Audiovisuais)
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Shatron is a modular trumpet mute system based on simple geometry. Shatron is a product of high musical performance joined to ecological responsibility, as it benefits from fine wood scraps used furniture production. Many wood industries lose material that, being too small, is neither recycled nor reused. As many of the best woods are dense, hard and widely used in the construction of musical instruments, these scraps can be an excellent opportunity to system designing in music field.
- Inspiration
- Shatron is an iconographic element from the early 14th century, widely used in religious architecture in the North of Russia. It is a geometric hipped roof with sharply pitched incline rising to the top to cover churches. Shatron's pyramidal geometry develops sound quality, reflecting and improving its uniformity. The structure is filled by ten wooden panels. As Pitagoras states having reached ten revert again to the unity. In addition, number ten refers to the Commandments of God.
- Research
- This trumpet mute is the result of a research project based on the reuse of productive wastes from the furniture industry. This project also aims to demonstrate that territorial networks create information tracks and guarantee the flow of materials, technologies and processes of design driven innovation.
- Challenge
- Each Shatron trumpet mute system can be composed of different types of wood, depending on the type of sound the trumpeter wishes to achieve. The structure, created using the three dimensional printing technique, and the use of a polymeric filament, reinforced with carbon fiber allow to achieve an articulated and resistant structure. This research project aims to demonstrate that this type of mute system can be extended to other musical instruments of metal family.
- Realization and Technology
- This trumpet mute system has a support structure produced by three dimensional printing technology using polymeric filaments reinforced with carbon fiber, which guarantees great rigidity. The walls of the structure are made of wooden sheets of different densities, guaranteeing the possible customisation of the sound and according to the needs of the trumpeter.
- Operation and Interaction
- The trumpet mute system is a straight, the type of trumpet most used by trumpeters. The choice of wood offers a warm tone that is completely different from metal mute systems. The polymeric structure reinforced with carbon fiber offers more resistance and, therefore, greater durability.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was produced entirely in the north of Portugal. The structure was printed in the creative space, Double Concept Bar in Viana do Castelo. The small wooden panels were produced from remnants of furniture production produced by Paredes' Moveis Aja companies. Rui Pedro Silva of Atelier Rps Aveiro performed the acoustic configuration. For two years, several trumpeters, especially teachers and students of the Arteam Professional Music School of Alto Minho tested the prototypes. Finally, also Renderixphotos and Ponto de Vista Audiovisuais were involved.
- Specifications
- The trumpet mute system is 150 mm high x 84 mm width and 80 grams. Although the chord has frequencies similar to those of straight metal mufflers, in high register, the sound is less strident. Shatron is a trumpet muted instrument able to produce softer and sweeter sounds than normal metal mutes, highlighting the prompt response and allowing the musician to produce easy passages without smudging. The possibility of configuring muting using different types of wood makes the product flexible even for the most demanding audience.
- Keywords
- Musical Instruments, Design Networking, Trumpet Mutes, Brass instrument, Innovative Process
