Shatron 小號弱音器 by Altempo Design Research Group

Shatron 小號弱音器 by Altempo Design Research Group is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 鐵獎 in 樂器設計 Competition Category.

鐵樂器· 2020

Shatron 小號弱音器

by Altempo Design Research Group

Client: CIAUD - Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design

A' Design Award 鐵獎 Winner in 樂器 Category

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The Design

About Shatron 小號弱音器

Shatron係一款模組化小號弱音器。呢個弱音器可以令音色變得柔和溫暖，令高音域嘅聲音相比金屬弱音器嚟講冇咁刺耳。支撐結構採用碳纖維強化聚合物長絲進行三維列印製成，具有堅固耐用嘅特性。十塊唔同密度嘅木板組成外壁，因此可以根據演奏者嘅需要調校音色。木材源自家具生產中通常會被丟棄嘅細小邊料。造型設計靈感來自早期俄羅斯教堂嘅金字塔形屋頂。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鐵獎

Shatron 小號弱音器是 A' Design Award 鐵獎得主，這是授予滿足人們對設計精良的創作所期待的專業與工業要求的優良設計的聲望認可。鐵獎得主展現出其創作者的高超技藝、高度專業化、專家級的理解力和創造能力。預計Shatron 小號弱音器將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的創作，既實用又創新。這件贏得 A' Design Award 鐵獎的設計整合了行業最佳實踐，並擁有與專業知識和才華相結合的稱職技術特性。Shatron 小號弱音器因其嚴謹而受到尊重，旨在提供有助於讓世界變得更美好的生活品質改善。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

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.
Dimensions & Packaging: 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.
Tags: Musical Instruments, Design Networking, Trumpet Mutes, Brass instrument, Innovative Process
Production 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.
Design 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.
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.
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.
Project Duration: 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.
Operation Flow: 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.
Team Members: Ermanno Aparo: Designer, Liliana Soares: Designer, João Teixeira: Designer and Jorge Passos: Designer
Image Credits: Main Image: Photographer José Pedro Melo
Option image#1: Photographer José Pedro Melo
Option image#2: Photographer José Pedro Melo
Option image#3: Photographer José Pedro Melo
Option image#4: Photographer/Videomaker Flávio Cruz (Ponto de Vista Audiovisuais)
Video_Shatron: Photographer/Videomaker Flávio Cruz (Ponto de Vista Audiovisuais)