Water Sound Design: The Drop Determines the Sound

A set of water delivery methods with deliberately designed sounds. The bathtub is filled not by a faucet directly into the water, but by a flat curtain of water falling from a higher position, with a drop of about forty centimeters. The sound of water hitting the surface is a continuous, low-pitched white noise, not a splashing impact sound. In another spot, a stone water basin has a thin bamboo pipe slowly dripping water into it, about one drop every two seconds, creating a crisp and sparse sound. The nature of the two sounds is completely different—one is a continuous background hum, the other is intermittent points. The surfaces of the space are mostly stone and concrete, allowing for a slight reverberation to make the sound fuller. Avoid: using high-pressure massage nozzles to create noise, making the drop too small to lose the sound, adding audio playback of water sounds, using a large amount of sound-absorbing materials to eliminate reverberation.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一組刻意設計過聲音的出水方式。浴缸的注水不是從龍頭直接沖進水裡,而是從一個較高的位置以一道扁平的水簾落下,落差約四十公分,水打在水面上的聲音是持續而低沉的白噪音,不是嘩啦的沖擊聲。另一處是一個石製的水缽,一根細竹管以極慢的速度滴水進去,間隔約兩秒一滴,聲音清脆而稀疏。兩種聲音的性質完全不同——一個是連續的底噪、一個是斷續的點。空間的表面多為石材與水泥,會有輕微的殘響讓聲音更飽滿。避免:使用高壓沖擊的按摩噴嘴造成噪音、把落差做得太小失去聲音、加入音響播放的水聲、使用大量吸音材料消除殘響。