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On the Development of an Auditory Virtual Environment for Musical Applications

In the last few decades, the development of audio reproduction and spatialization techniques greatly benefits from composers whose pioneering work still inspires researchers to refine spatial audio systems (e.g. Stockhausen, Chowning, Boulez). However, novel spatialization tools developed by engineers and researchers hardly find their way from the developers' labs into the composition studios. To make future developments more applicable, researchers have to understand this current lack of coherence between development and artistic use.

In this talk, first, results of a quantitative study are presented and shows how composers use spatialization, what spatial aspects are essential and what functionalities spatial audio systems should strive to include or improve. Secondly, ViMiC (Virtual Microphone Control), a novel spatial rendering software is presented. ViMiC provides a computer-generated virtual environment for the purpose of creating spatial sounds scenes. Apart from positioning sound sources, other spatial aspects, such as source width, distance, and room impression, can be created in real-time, particularly for concert situations and site-specific immersive installations.

Come and visit us during Open day at the university. There will be demonstrations of different motion capture systems, sonic interaction, robots, 3D-printing, and more.

Postdoctoral researcher Alexander Refsum Jensenius will hold an open lecture during the annual "Faglig-pedagogisk dag" at University of Oslo.

Tittel: Musikk og bevegelse

Sammendrag: Musikk oppst?r som bevegelse hos musikeren, og musikk skaper bevegelse hos den som lytter. Selv om de ?este er enige om at kropp og bevegelse er en naturlig, og essensiell, del av musikkopplevelsen, har det v?rt p?fallende lite fokus p? musikkrelaterte bevegelser i undervisning og forskning. Forelesningen vil gi en helhetlig presentasjon av hvordan vi kan forst? og studere musikkrelaterte bevegelser.

Postdoctoral researcher Alexander Refsum Jensenius will hold an open lecture during the annual "Faglig-pedagogisk dag" at University of Oslo.

Tittel: Musikk og bevegelse

Sammendrag: Musikk oppst?r som bevegelse hos musikeren, og musikk skaper bevegelse hos den som lytter. Selv om de ?este er enige om at kropp og bevegelse er en naturlig, og essensiell, del av musikkopplevelsen, har det v?rt p?fallende lite fokus p? musikkrelaterte bevegelser i undervisning og forskning. Forelesningen vil gi en helhetlig presentasjon av hvordan vi kan forst? og studere musikkrelaterte bevegelser.

Assoc. Professor Marcelo M. Wanderley from McGill University in Montreal, Canada will hold a guest lecture on the topic Design and Evaluation of New Interfaces for Musical Expression.

PhD students Marc Thompson & Birgitta Burger from the University of Jyv?skyl? will demonstrate the  MoCap Toolboxfor Matlab.

The MoCap Toolbox is a Matlab? toolbox that contains functions for the analysis and visualization of motion capture data. It supports the generic .c3d file format, the .tsv data format produced by the Qualisys ProReflex system, and the .wii format produced by the WiiDataCapture software.

As preparations for the Motion Capture Workshop next week, we will be giving an introduction to using the NaturalPoint Optitrack system that is currently set up in the fourMs Lab.

A workshop on hyperimprovisation, with international and national guests.

Time: onsdag 8. oktober kl 10.00 - 12.00

Location: Auditoriet, Norges musikkh?gskole

Title: The laptop as instrument

Lecturer: Dan Trueman, Princeton University

Abstract: This talk presents one approach to the art and technology of performing music with digital computers - designing, implementing, evaluating, and iteratively developing new interfaces for the real-time expressive control of digital signal processing algorithms. The discussion will include presentations of my own musical instruments, the exploration of new performance techniques they bring about, and the musical and technological lessons learned during an evolutionary journey into a modern perspective on one of mankind"s oldest forms of art.

A workshop on basic issues of gesture definitions and gesture capture/representation.

Musikkteknologidagene arrangeres av Institutt for musikkvitenskap (UiO) og NoTAM, i tilknytning til ULTIMA.