Grand Auditorium (Maison de la Radio)

Radio France Auditorium is an arena shape concert hall with an organ dedicated to the performance of classical music.

[1] Nine years after winning an international competition to restructure Paris’ Maison de la Radio, AS architecture-studio composes the auditorium.

The acoustic is rather emblematic of radio sound: direct, accurately defined and close to the source.

The result is quite spectacular: a perfectly accurate sound, soft that offers an incredible proximity, even from the most distant points.

[5] France’s new Grenzing organ was inaugurated over the weekend of 7–9 May 2016 with a series of events ranging from children’s narration, recitals by rising stars, a concert for organ and ensemble, silent film accompaniment, and a grand recital by some of France’s top-name organists[6] In the "Fermata" episode of the TV series Astrid et Raphaëlle, infrasound from a generator in the organ is used as a murder weapon to trigger a heart attack in the intended victim.