Altempo is a team of two senior researchers and two alumni, creators of new configurations, interpreters of fundamental concepts such as innovation, changing and sustainability, in order to improve people's lives. Altempo is based on the hermeneutic methodology and comes from the Italian expression to introduce a correction or clarify an idea. Altempo Research Design Group makes use of a strategy that requires to constantly diagnose the situations, helping companies to develop singular products and services carriers of meaning, with the spirit of a place, considering time, space, circumstances, and human nature.

Shatron Mute for Trumpet by E.Aparo, L.Soares, J.Teixeira, J.Passos This object is one of more commonly device for a brass instrument. The design solution allows optimal performance conditions as it covers all the standard sound requirements. It consists of ten recycled wood scraps of different densities and types. The structure is produced in carbon fiber filament with 3D printing technology. The product took the meaning from the pyramidal Russian roofs of the 14th century used to amplify the acoustic of the architectonic space. Shatron addresses the trumpeter as a storyteller of new artefacts.

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