Associate Professor David Lieberman was a participant and panelist at the Electric Fields and Mini-Maker Faire 2012 in Ottawa from October 10 - 14. 

On Friday, October 12, he spoke on "Sound Speculations" in architectural theory and practice as part of the event's Open Graduate Symposium at the Carelton University's Azreili School of Architecture and Urbanism. 

On Saturday, October 13, he was a panelist in a discussion of how culture shapes sound. These discussions furthered ongoing research in the exploration of aurality and sound as fundamental principles in architectural composition and the design and construction of large scale musical instruments. This symposium also furthered ongoing research into installations that investigate not only sound, but the means of developing and testing performative materials for architectural applications, such as generative acoustic spaces that focus on a real time manipulable surface as containment and a participatory instrument for chamber music performance, and a piezo electric acoustic dance floor as soundspace.

Pictured above is the interior of the Stredici a five metre long acoustic string instrument tuned to thirty nine notes or three tritives of the Bohlen-Pierce microtonal scale. Instruments are of a scale that they no longer become an extension or prosthetic to the body but in their architecture can accomodate and contain the performer. The Stredici was last in performance with multiple players at a festival in Boston inlcuding a concert at the Goethe Insitute introduced with a challenge and declaration that Architecture is not frozen music.