Creative Director
Pierluigi Pompei is the creative director of Vocum Studio. He is a sculptor who confronts space, where architectural elements and sound inform his practice. The infinite and the immeasurable, frontiers, barriers and spaces that are not directly noticed, constitute the starting point.
With his work Pompei searches into the precise definition of space, for himself as well as for the spectator, using different materials and techniques.Pompei studied at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Rome, department of sculpture, where he graduated cum laude in 1993. In 1995 he received a scholarship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague.
His work has been exhibited in galleries, museums and cultural manifestations in The Netherlands, Italy, Germany, France, Poland, Switzerland and outside Europe. Pompei received many art awards for his work, notably sculptural award - Culture Prize of The Hague, awarded every two years resulting in a major commission of a sculptural work.
Since 2007, Pompei has taught at the prestigious Design Academy in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. He is a long-standing board member of the European Ceramic Work Center (EKWC) in the Netherlands
Principal Audio Designer
Adam is the principal audio designer at Vocum Studio. He has worked in the field of wave physics, acoustics and optics for over 20 years.
He has designed acoustic systems and architecture for some of the most technically challenging projects in the world including the Burj Khalifa, DUSEL Neutrino observatory and several performing arts centres and stadiums with acoustics as the design driver.
Adam has a bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2000 and a Master of Engineering from Penn State University in Acoustics in 2003.
He has taught acoustic courses at the Architecture department at University of Pennsylvania. He works globally for the Nordic acoustics firm Efterklang, part of AFRY and is based in Amsterdam.