Origin of the 'Soundhouse' name

Traditionally in recording studios, the room with the recording console is called the control room and the space where the musicians play is named the studio. In the Music Technology area, control rooms and called studios and the space to place musicians are called soundhouses. Other rooms for creative production and evaluation of sound, like media labs, digital audio workstation rooms, and the critical listening room are also called studios. All of these studios are important to the development of the music technology student and are named with a studio number. We did not limit the name studio to only the recording spaces.

The name soundhouse was carried over from the previous music engineering technology studios on Bethel Avenue. Cleve Scott named the main recording space a soundhouse because of its purpose beyond the boundaries of the traditional recording studio space. It was a creative space for traditional and experimental music. Its functionality borrowing from Francis Bacons New Atlantis text written in 1626.

We have also sound-houses, where we practice and demonstrate all sounds and their generation. We have harmony which you have not, of quarter-sounds and lesser slides of sounds. Diverse instruments of music likewise to you unknown, some sweeter than any you have; with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet. We represent small sounds as great and deep, likewise great sounds extenuate and sharp; we make divers trembling and warbling of sounds, which in their original are entire. We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices and notes of beasts and birds. We have certain helps which, set to the ear, do further the hearing greatly; we have also divers strange and artificial echoes, reflecting the voice many times, and, as it were, tossing it; and some that give back the voice louder than it came, some shriller and some deeper; yea, some rendering the voice, differing in the letters or articulate sound from that they receive. We have all means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes, in strange lines and distances. ~Francis Bacon, New Atlantis