The programme for Sounds in Space is now available. This is a FREE event and there are still places available, so if you want to attend see the details found on the Sounds in Space page.
Sounds in Space 2013 – Call for Participation
After the success of the previous three Sounds in Space events help at the Markeaton Street Campus of the University of Derby, we’re hosting the event again….and it’s still free!
The symposium concentrates on practical audio/audio-visual demonstrations and the transfer of knowledge through interactive presentations and Q & A sessions and will be of interest both to practitioners in the field and industry as well as the academic community interested in surround audio and it’s related fields. To this end, the previous events have been a mixture of academic and practitioners in industry presenting, which aim to continue this year!
If you’re interested at presenting/demonstrating at the event, please email me at b.j.wiggins@derby.ac.uk by 5pm on Monday 27th May 2013. Abstracts should be around 150 words in length and submitted as a standard Word document. Please also provide a 100 word personal summary (for potential public dissemination!) for all contributing personnel. For more details, please look at the Sounds in Space 2013 Page, which also includes a link to the call for works and other details PDF (or you could just click >HERE<).
Any questions/comments? Feel free to ask here!
If you interested in attending the event, it’s FREE, and light refreshment and lunch is also provided. To register for a place (numbers are limited) please email Jessamie Self at j.m.self@derby.ac.uk
Celestial Dynamics Audio-Visual Installation – Stargazing Live 2013
If you’re lucky enough to be going to the Stargazing live event at University of Derby (see here and here) then you’ll also get the chance to experience Celestial Dynamics, a higher order Ambisonic and visual installation setup in the Markeaton Street building. Developed by Michael Brown, and using the WigWare higher order Ambsionic plugins and source material from the Hubble Space Telescope and Voyager 2 recordings. If you’re attending this free event, it’s running MS017 🙂 Some stills from the video are shown in this post, and the poster to be shown alongside the installation can be found at:
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2nd and 3rd Order WigWare
I’ve currently got up to 4th order versions of my panners and decoders. Attached to this post is a link to the 2nd and 3rd order Panners (encoders). There are two versions of each order:
- A 2D 2nd order version that outputs 5 channels of 2nd order Ambisonic goodness (W,X,Y,U & V)
- A 3D version that outputs 9 channels (W,X,Y,Z,R,S,T,U & V)
- A 2D 3rd order version that outputs 7 channels (W,X,Y,U,V,P & Q)
- A 3D 3rd order version that outputs 16 channels (W,X,Y,Z,R,S,T,U,V,K,L,M,N,O,P & Q)
These panners use the Furse Malham weightings. More info can be found here.
If NFC (near field compensation) is set to OFF then as the source is moved into the middle, the directional compenents are turned down (centre sources comes out of every speaker equally when decoded). If NFC is set to a distance, then the
distance parameter then controls the distance filtering which applies LF boost (proximity effect) as the source moves closer to the middle.
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Any questions, please post in the comments. Decoders to follow….
WigWare Ambisonic Plug-ins Update
I’ve updated the PC versions of my 1st order plugins to incorporate a number of bug fixes already present in the Mac versions. I’ve also optimised the code a little, and improved the near field compensation and distance filtering to be, well, correct and glitch free (not very noticeable in 1st order….2nd order to come!) Also, these are now compiled using Microsoft Visual Studio as Audacity didn’t like Borland Builder compiled versions……
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Comments/bug reports and general feedback always welcome!
Sounds in Space 2012
We have a programme change in the Sounds in Space 2012 event. We are pleased to announce that John Crossley will be talking to us about the 5.1 mix he carried out for Imogen Heap (called Neglected Space which was featured on the Xizi She Knows single) which utilised both Pro-tools and 4th order Ambisonics. It’s not too late to register for the event! See details here!
Sounds in Space Programme Available
The programme for the FREE Event Sounds in Space, is now available (it may still be tweaked, however, but the general timings for the day are fixed!). This research symposium has speakers from the BBC, talks about Binaural Sound Art (with a 48-way binaural demo….bring your own headphones!) and aurilisations of Sonic Crystals, among other things! Have at a look at the Sounds in Space page for details.
Sounds in Space 2012
The Sounds in Space 2012 Page with full details, and more information as we get it (programme, etc.) can be found at:
The Creative Technologies Research Group are proud to announce the 2nd Sounds in Space Symposium is to be held on 2nd July, 2012.
A Research Symposium – July 2nd, 2012
University of Derby
Markeaton Street Campus
http://www.derby.ac.uk/markeaton
Exploring spatial sound arts practice, the symposium will present a number of original spatial sound works and present details regarding the technical, practical and aesthetic aspects of spatial works.
The event is FREE, and light refreshment and lunch is provided. To register for a place (numbers are limited) please email Jessamie Self at j.m.self@derby.ac.uk
Call for Participation
If you’re interested at presenting/demonstrating at the event, please email me at b.j.wiggins@derby.ac.uk by 5pm on Monday 28th May 2012. Abstracts should be around 150 words in length and submitted as a standard Word document. Please also provide a 100 word personal summary (to be used for publicity purposes) for all contributing personnel. For more details, please look at the Sounds in Space 2012 Page.
Kinect Theremin
Just thought I’d put up a quick video of what we’ve been upto in the last few weeks. Below is a video of a Microsoft Kinect powered Theremin. In this example, I’m using OSCeleton to generate the positional data, processing.org to display the blobs and format the data, and Plogue Bidule (which is capturing Open Sound Control messages from Bidule) to play the audio. The gfx are pretty basic so it works on my very old laptop, but you’ll get the gist of what’s going on!
New Mac Versions of WigWare Available
I’ve uploaded a bug-fix release to the Mac WigWare decoders, panners and reverb. The bug fix stops crashing in some hosts and/or the outputting of not very nice sound when the plug-ins are first loaded. Please let me know if anyone has any problems….. the files can be found on the WigWare page, or below:
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