Soundstack - the art and technologies of spatial sound

[Giacomo Lepri]

*** apologies for cross posting ***

Soundstack - A free two-day, two-track series of workshops, concerts & masterclasses on the art and technologies of spatial sound.

Friday 8th + Saturday 9th November 2019, QMUL

More info here

Apply to attend here before 21 October. Places are free, limited and popular. 

These workshops will introduce you to seven artist-engineers working at the cutting edge of spatial sound for VR, AR, installations and performance. You will hear about specific software and techniques, as well as the aesthetic potential of working with immersive sound in fixed and real-time settings. This year Soundstack will focus on the aesthetics of sound as space, in an attempt to address this often under-considered area. 

We will :

+ premiere the IKO loudspeaker array in the UK

+ use Supercollider in Unity for audioreactive photogrammetry

+ use the Steno language to build spatial synthesis engines and filters

+ approach spatial sonification and sound interaction design

+ work with the Media & Arts Tech (MAT) programme’s 24-channel speaker system

Friday 8th November

Track 1 

09:00 – 13:00 Systems∿Encounter with Steno — Spatial edition with Till Bovermann (required: SuperCollider + headphones + laptop)

14:00 – 18:00 Spatial Entities with Giulia Vismara (required: Reaper + laptop + headphones)

Track 2 

10:00 – 18:00 Sonification and sonic interaction design for space with Paul Vickers (no requirements)

Saturday 9th November

Track 1 

10:00 – 17:00 Audioreactive Photogrammetry with Kathrin Hunze & Thomas Hack  – Create and control point clouds in Unity with audio signals and OSC (required: Unity (2018.3 or later) + Supercollider + Regard3D + laptop + mobile phone + headphones + game controller (optional) – see workshop description for more info – all software are free and with the exception of Unity can be downloaded during the workshop)

Track 2 

11:00 – 17:00 Projections of a shared Now – Approaching Sound as Space using the IKO loudspeaker with Gerriet Sharma & Angela McArthur (no requirements)

This year, Soundstack is co-located with the ‘Absurd Musical Interfaces‘ hackathon run by the Augmented Instruments Lab at Queen Mary Uni. This means you’ll have some shared evening events and a chance to meet more people.