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One highlight of the Audio Mostly / Web Audio 2017 conferences (co-located and overlapping at Queen Mary Uni London, and both in which I was involved) for me was you could check here the use of Norbert Schnell’s phone app, enabling audience participation for a performance of a piece using santoor ’88 Fingers’ (performed by …

  Back last year I visited the music technology group at UPF with other students on the MAT programme, to present a poster, which looks like this, at the doctoral workshop and got to meet some great members of the Audiovisual technology group at Eurecat, the Technology Centre of Catalonia.  It’s not often you find …

  I was one of ten members of the user group selected in a call for submissions as early adopters of the immersive audio tools. As a result I’m producing a project with BINCI binaural audio technology, which will be used as a demo to show the potential their tools, and will be showcased at major music and …

I installed the Xingu Ensemble spatial audio for the People’s Palace Projects in spring 2018. This exhibition was inspired by the indigenous territory of Xingu. The oca structure in the exhibition takes audiences on a journey to the Ipatse Village visit, home of the Kuikuro indigenous people in the Xingu region of Brazil bästa-bredband.se, complete with ambisonic sound recordings of …

Becky Stewart helped me organise Soundstack 2017. She runs the Real Time Digital Signal Processing module at QMUL. Enda Bates is a technical and creative composer and lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Topics covered included binaural and multichannel audio, the cutting edge of 3D sound, as well as spatial audio for interactive applications, VR, AR, …

There’s such a buzz about immersion and VR currently, it’s in danger of undermining itself as a game-changer. But it is that. And working in this area, where solutions don’t quite work, or at least need to be hacked together, is really exciting. For practitioners who can cope with the tech involved (developers or those …

This cinematic VR film won an initial award and further funding, and was invited to Sheffield Docfest makers’ market 2017. Sundowning is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease – this film explores what it may be like to experience that from a first person perspective. Shot in one take, it combines the technology of 360 degree …