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Holophonic sound in ircam's concert hall: Technological and aesthetic practices
This article presents a report on technological and aesthetic practices in the variable-acoustics performance hall, Espace de Projection, at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique. The hall is surrounded by a 350-loudspeaker array ...
A musical journey towards permanent high-density loudspeaker arrays
Historically, most acousmatic works were composed in stereo and performed, or "diffused", over loudspeaker orchestras. These systems furnished performers and composers with a wealth of opportunities to enhance the spatial contrast, motion, and musical ...
The evolution of spatial audio in the allosphere
Spatial audio has been at the core of the multimodal experience at the AlloSphere, a unique instrument for data discovery and exploration through interactive immersive display, since its conception. The AlloSphere multichannel spatial audio design has ...
Genesis of the cube: The design and deployment of an hdla-based performance and research facility
- Eric Lyon,
- Terence Caulkins,
- Denis Blount,
- Ivica Ico Bukvic,
- Charles Nichols,
- Michael Roan,
- Tanner Upthegrove
The Cube is a recently built facility that features a high-density loudspeaker array. The Cube is designed to support spatial computer music research and performance, art installations, immersive environments, scientific research, and all manner of ...
Creating multiple spatial settings with "granular spatialisation" in the high-density loudspeaker array of the cube concert hall
This article offers an alternative for spatializing electroacoustic music using high-density loudspeaker arrays HDLAs. It describes and contextualizes experimentation with the large array of speakers of the Cube concert hall made during the Spatial ...
Searching for the grail
This article describes a quest for the GRAIL Giant Radial Array for Immersive Listening, a large-scale loudspeaker system with related hardware and software control equipment. The GRAIL was developed at the Center for Computer Research in Music and ...