IAN BRYAN HOFFMAN
ASA AIA RAIC
Ian is a co-founder of Consonant. He is an acoustic designer, architect, and higher educator, committed to narrowing the gap between aural and visual space, design, and craft. Educated in classical piano, acoustics, and architecture, he is uniquely qualified to address the complex sensitivities of architectural and acoustic design, at both a technical and creative level. This pursuit includes a persistent commitment to precedent research, technical analysis, formal investigation, material study, modeling inquiry, and a disciplined habit of critical listening + sketching, to inform his design thinking and understanding of spaces.
Focused on buildings for the arts, Ian has contributed to and led the design, redesign and restoration of many significant buildings for music, spoken-word theater, and performing arts education. His experience also includes libraries, museums, worship spaces, and recording + production studios.
Ian is an author, frequent guest lecturer, and design critic on the design of performance assembly spaces. In addition to co-leading Consonant, Ian serves on the faculty of the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, in the graduate program in acoustics.
ihoffman@consonantdesign.com
224.717.0757
RICHARD HENRY TALASKE
FASA
Rick is a co-founder of Consonant. The desire to create great sound experiences for the public has been the personal driving force behind Rick’s noted career as an acoustical consultant. Throughout four decades of acoustic design accomplishments, Rick has combined his love of music and architecture with technical and artistic sensibilities. As a teen, he recognized his desire to design buildings for great sound and embarked upon a formal educational journey in math, science, engineering, music, and acoustics, supplemented with invaluable practical experience.
Rick is experienced in the design of all building types, but specializes in performance and assembly spaces, as well as educational facilities. He has been fortunate to collaborate with many of the design industry’s finest architects, theatre consultants, and engineers, while guiding clients and design teams on the intricacies of applied acoustics.
708.417.0905
COLLABORATORS
HENRY FOGEL
ZACKERY BELANGER
TÉA MOTTOLESE
Henry is an arts visionary and leader in the music community. He has enjoyed a distinguished career as President of the Chicago Symphony, Executive Director of the National Symphony, President of the League of American Orchestras, and in academic leadership. Henry assists CONSONANT clients in the building and capital planning aspects of performances spaces.
TÉA MOTTOLESE
ZACKERY BELANGER
TÉA MOTTOLESE
Téa is a recording engineer and acoustician, working in various aspects of audio recording, production, broadcast, and audio + video streaming, currently for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and WGBH, and previously with NPR. Téa is a valued CONSONANT collaborator on projects with significant recording + production, broadcast, and streaming components.
ZACKERY BELANGER
ZACKERY BELANGER
ZACKERY BELANGER
Zackery is an acoustic designer, physicist, and researcher, committed to design inquiry and to rethinking normative relationships between architecture and acoustics. Zackery collaborates with CONSONANT on the exploration, modeling, and shaping of materials and assemblies for sound performance, ranging from small scale textures to large scale room shaping.
SHARAN MOSES
ZACKERY BELANGER
ZACKERY BELANGER
Sharan is educated and experienced in architecture, acoustics, and construction. He is an innovative and creative designer in room shaping and detailing, balancing acoustic performance needs with architectural goals and constructability. Sharan works with CONSONANT on room design, modeling, detailing, and representation, specifically for critical listening environments.
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Bring us your unique acoustic challenges, and we will help you design, with sound, to explore creative, effective, and beautiful outcomes.
IAN HOFFMAN ihoffman@consonantdesign.com 224.717.0757 RICK TALASKE rtalaske@consonantdesign.com 708.417.0905
