EV Soundscape Limited

EV Soundscape Limited

The Sound of the Bentley Torcal: Creating an Emotional Rhythm Instead of Imitating a V8

On 23 September 2026, Bentley unveiled the Torcal, its first production battery electric vehicle. At EV Soundscape, we were particularly interested in its powertrain sound, the “Bentley Dynamic Symphony.” How can a car without an engine still convey the distinct feeling of driving a Bentley? The Tor…

2 days ago

Sound Design as a Technology for Translating Product Philosophy

During a recent discussion about sound design, I had an opportunity to reconsider a fundamental question: why is sound design necessary in the first place? As a premise, I believe that product sound is rarely the primary reason for purchase, except in special cases. There are examples such as the Fo…

3 months ago

Reflections on My Presentation at the JSAE Spring CongressEV Sound Design through “Score-Based” Approaches and the Strata of Sounds

I recently had the opportunity to give a presentation at the JSAE Spring Congress on Score-based Sound Design, a sound design method for electric vehicles. In this presentation, I introduced the idea of considering EV sounds, especially AVAS — Acoustic Vehicle Alerting Systems — not simply as warnin…

3 months ago

Exploring New Creativity in Automotive Sound Design Together with AI

I recently had the opportunity to deliver a keynote speech at the KSNVE conference on the theme of “AI-SQ Engineering × Creative Sound Design for Future Automotive Sounds.” In my presentation, I discussed sound quality evaluation, sound design through “score-based” approaches, AI-assisted sound expl…

4 months ago

Presentation at the JSAE 2026 Spring Annual Congress

I will be giving a presentation at the JSAE 2026 Spring Annual Congress on sound design for electric vehicles. In this presentation, I will introduce a sound design method based on the idea of treating electric vehicle sound as a “string instrument” and applying the concept of “scoring” to sound des…

4 months ago