Paint that helps diffuse sound?


A recent article in the Wall Street Journal about a doctor that built a new $3 million dollar house to house his own organ, indicated he used a specialty wall paint to to help diffuse sound. Anyone done the same?
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I'd love to know how a flat paint film could diffuse sound? Sounds like a case of a reporter unfamiliar with acoustics using the word diffuse when they meant dampen. There is sound absorbing or dampening paint. If there were a textured "diffusion" paint, its diffusion characteristics would have to limited to extremely high frequencies (unless someone has figured out how to circumvent the laws of physics and acoustics.)