Porto Arts Club
arts & culture·Porto, Portugal
Audio Consultancy London
Architectural sound design
We design sound systems, acoustic strategy and integrated audio environments for hospitality, residential and cultural spaces.
For hospitality operators & owners
Your room is already making a sound. The question is whether you chose it.
In hospitality, sound is rarely designed and always noticed. A room that is too loud shortens conversations, suppresses spend and surfaces in reviews. A room that is tuned does the opposite. Guests stay longer, return more often and remember how it felt.
Acoustic & sound design for hospitalityFor architects & interior designers
Audio is usually the last discipline in, and the first to compromise the room.
We work the way you work. Acoustic modelling at schematic stage, speaker positions coordinated to your reflected ceiling plan and absorption mapped to your finishes schedule. Audio enters the brief, not the snagging list.
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Methodology
Designing for the way people actually hear
Technical compliance is only one layer. We consider intelligibility, fatigue, atmosphere, coverage and spatial behaviour so sound supports the room rather than competing with it.
Our Cognitive Load Index framework helps us assess how sound affects comfort, attention and human response in designed environments.
As featured in Mondo-DR
Recent work / Press
Claude's
Company: Sonic Design Studios | Location: London, UK
Mondo-DR featured the Claude's at Chotto Matte installation as a case study in design led audio integration. A sculptural Pequod Acoustics system sits embedded within a controlled basement hospitality interior, where architecture, operation and audio are tuned as a single piece.
What we do
Three areas of practice
Hospitality
Sound systems for restaurants, members clubs, bars and cultural spaces where atmosphere, intelligibility and operational control matter.
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High fidelity audio designed around architecture, interiors and everyday living.
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Sculptural audio design, acoustic strategy and integrated sonic environments for galleries, cultural venues and art led interiors.
See Cultural ProjectsFor architects & interior designers
Built for the Architectural Workflow
We work the way you work. Drawings exchanged in CAD and Revit, acoustic modelling delivered at schematic stage, speaker positions coordinated against your reflected ceiling plan, and material absorption mapped against your finishes schedule.
No hardware imposed onto a finished room. No retrofitted ceilings. No speakers that fight your visual language. We integrate audio early, so it complements the architecture rather than compromising it.
The commercial case
Sound belongs in the operating strategy, not the snagging list.
A room that is uncomfortable to talk in shortens visits, suppresses spend, discourages return and surfaces in the reviews that decide whether the next guest books at all. Designed early and well, sound lengthens stays, lifts spend, protects your reviews and makes the room unmistakably yours.
Left to the end, it becomes the thing guests remember for the wrong reason.
Methodology
The Cognitive Load Index
Our approach is led by how people actually hear, not by an equipment list. The Cognitive Load Index assesses how sound affects comfort, attention and fatigue, the difference between a room people tolerate and a room they settle into and stay.
It is the framework we use to design every project, from a first drawing through to commissioning, so a room is designed for the way people actually hear.
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What our clients say
Verified Google review★★★★★
Loved working with Tariq, he's always gone the extra mile for us, highly recommend.
Hom Malass · Founder, Drunch
Verified Google review★★★★★
From the initial consultation through to final installation, the process was smooth, professional, and impressively efficient.
Danio Domingues · Founder, Porto Arts Club
Verified Google review★★★★★
Top team, quality products and installation. Extremely happy with the service and will definitely use them again when I upgrade!
Karim Jivraj · Residential
Verified Google review★★★★★
Best in the business!
Will Noble · Chotto Matte / Alley Cats
Verified Google review★★★★★
I appointed Sonic Design Studios for a residential refurbishment. They were professional, transparent, courteous and completed the job in a timely manner. The speakers sound, and look incredible. Tariq was available throughout the install to answer any queries we had.
Tarek Salhab · Residential
Trusted across hospitality, residential and cultural projects.
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Sound designed as architecture
Make sound a design decision, not a remedial one.
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