Arium

Arium is developed by Dutch engineer Aristides Poort.
The material is extremely hard and its unique cell structure is responsible for the unprecedented quality of sustain and resonance.

Research

Fifteen years ago, Aristides Poort, working in collaboration with Technical University Delft started to work on a unique mission: to develop a material with perfect acoustic properties. The main emphasis was on resonance and sustain.

Wood

The mission started out with research into the material that has been used for instrument building since time immemorial: wood. Studies of different types of top quality wood led to a technical study of cell structures and the mutual differences between them. By answering the question, “What happens to a sound wave in a material at cell level?” it was subsequently possible to design the ideal cell structure.

It soon became clear that, if this material could be developed, it would have acoustic properties that no one would have thought possible before. The material would have the kind of resonance that even the best piece of wood in the world could only deliver in an instrument maker’s wildest dreams.

Result

The result is a material with amazing acoustic properties, which is also perfect for solid die-casting. This means that the whole instrument can resonate without any disruption of the sound waves.

The mission was accomplished and Arium is the result.