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SoundArt HOT — Berlin, est. 2014

Sound environments,
composed and installed permanently.

A studio of 24 sound artists, engineers, and installers shaping permanent sonic environments for hotels, museums, and other buildings where silence has a sound.

Commission a Sound Environment View selected work
Interior of a hotel lobby with integrated sculptural loudspeakers, photographed as a museum plate
Fig. 00 Installation view, Whisper Vault — Hôtel des Bains, Lausanne, 2020.

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On the studio

We compose, sculpt, and install permanent sound artworks that turn architecture into a listening experience. Each commission begins as a question posed to the building itself — its proportions, its materials, the way its visitors will arrive and depart — and ends as a calibrated sonic environment that outlasts the season of any single guest.

SoundArt HOT delivers museum-grade sonic environments end to end: original composition in our Berlin studio, hardware specification, on-site installation, and a five-year acoustic maintenance contract. The studio was founded in 2014 by composer and sound designer Lena Marković, formerly of IRCAM, Paris.

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Selected commissions

A short catalogue of permanent installations. Forty-three further works are documented on request under NDA.

Long travertine spa corridor with flush-mounted loudspeakers along the ceiling
Fig. 01

Whisper Vault

Hôtel des Bains, Lausanne · 2020 · Permanent installation

Museum atrium with a suspended bronze loudspeaker array above a marble bench
Fig. 02

Sonic Topographies

Louvre Abu Dhabi · 2019 · Ambisonic environment

Hotel lobby at dusk with a concealed 31-driver reference array inside a walnut wall panel
Fig. 03

Atrium Field

Aman Tokyo · 2022 · Reference array, 31 drivers

Concrete chapel interior with a hidden line-array loudspeaker behind a limestone frieze
Fig. 04

Frieze

Rosewood São Paulo · 2023 · Concealed line array

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The four movements of a commission

From first sketch to fifth-year re-calibration, every engagement follows the same four-part discipline.

  1. I.

    Concept

    A site visit, a room-by-room acoustic survey, and a written sonic brief drafted with the architect and the curator. We listen to the building before we compose for it.

  2. II.

    Composition

    Original work produced in our Berlin studio, scored for the specific volume, surface, and use-pattern of each space. Catalogue of 600+ original works licensed exclusively for commissioned projects.

  3. III.

    Hardware

    Bespoke driver specification, concealed cabinetry, and patented SpatialHarmony™ calibration engine. Audio paths are designed to disappear into the architecture.

  4. IV.

    Calibration

    On-site tuning across 64 channels of Ambisonic reference, followed by a five-year acoustic maintenance contract. Average on-site calibration delivers a 4.2 dB improvement in perceived ambience.

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The studio, in figures

Permanent installations
143
Across 27 countries, since 2014.
SoundHarmony™ deployments
38
Five-star properties worldwide.
On-time commissioning
96%
Across the last five years.
Certification
ISO 9001
Sonic environment design & installation.
  • 2021 Prix Ars Electronica — Award of Distinction, Sonic Topographies.
  • 2022 Wallpaper* — Top 50 Design Innovators.
  • 2018– Selected sound partner — Aman Resorts, Rosewood, Louvre Abu Dhabi.
  • Since 2018 Average client NPS of 78 across hospitality commissions.

“A building has its own temperature. Our work is to listen for it, and then to compose a sound that the building seems to have been waiting for.”

Lena Marković Founder & Composer — formerly of IRCAM, Paris
Commission a Sound Environment Read the studio note