This 2 day workshop will explore techniques for creating immersive 3D audio environments for composition and acoustic simulation. There will be a survey of spatialization techniques including ambisonics, traditional amplitude panning, VBAP, binaural/transaural, and wave field synthesis. Methods for creating new and uniquely spatial audio environments will also be discussed. The workshop will take place in the Arup Soundlab™, a dedicated 2nd-order ambisonics listening chamber. Participants will gain hands-on experience in ambisonic encoding/decoding and reproduction as well practical applications for spatial audio presentation. This workshop is for musicians, composers, researchers, sound artists, and programmers who would like to gain a greater understanding of modern spatial audio techniques.
with Shane Myrbeck
Immersive Audio Environments for Composition & Simulation
Course Topics:
Concepts of spatial hearing
Overview of spatialization techniques
Open source software platforms for spatial audio
Methods for audio recording and synthesis
Ambisonics
Examples of spatial composition
Interactive positioning of sources in space
Prediction & simulation of sonic environments
Experimentation in the Arup Soundlab™
Gestural/touch-based control of sonic space using iDevices
Shane A. Myrbeck
Shane A. Myrbeck is a sound artist, composer and acoustician living in Oakland. Shane’s work explores the visceral and immersive nature of sound through spatial audio display, architectural form and multi-sensory phenomena. His work has been exhibited at the World Science Festival, the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, Fort Mason Center, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, California Academy of Sciences, Proxy, the Hosfelt Gallery, the ODC Theatre, IBM Tokyo and on the streets of San Francisco. Recent residencies include San Francisco’s Exploratorium and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Shane spends his professional life as an architectural acoustics designer at Arup, and is a technical lead for the SoundLab, an immersive, full-sphere ambisonic sound studio used for composition and acoustic simulation
