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Sarasota News Leader March 15, 2013 Burns said he and his assistants — including SKA Vice President Peter van Roekens — had developed a way to determine "what it is you should be hearing and what it is you are hearing." Page 48 more surfaces available to reflect sound, the more sound is funneled into a particular area, he said. Because the balconies of the Terrace East condos are receded in the façade of the building, the music from the restaurant is channeled in toward the condos, he added. They recorded sound measurements simul"It's almost like an ear," Burns explained of taneously at the restaurant and the Terrace the effect. buildings, he added. The condo residents "are hearing almost exactly what [they] would be "Those poor people in the building, they're rehearing if [they] were sitting down in the club ally hearing some noise," Burns added. itself," he pointed out. After the noise study was concluded, Burns "That's scary," said SKA Director Michael noted, he contacted Rami Nehme, owner of Shay. Blasé Café, and asked him if he would be willing to reorient his speakers so they point to"Well, it's very noisy," van Roekens responded. ward the Gulf of Mexico, "and immediately "It turns out there is nobody really to blame," [Nehme] said he would." Burns continued. "The architecture's just In such examples as the Mormon Tabernabad." cle in Salt Lake City, UT, and an area of New Terrace East has two vertical pillars on its York City's Grand Central Station called the façade "that are gigantic," and it is across the "whispering wall," the structures have been street from Blasé Café, Burns pointed out. The designed to amplify sound, Burns said. Re- Musicians perform outside Blasé Café on March 7. Photo by Rachel Hackney