Hello Grant,
I diffused one of my pieces at the 2007-ish one in Cologne, I would
reccomend contacting the person organising the audio equipment side of
things at the venue. Obviously they will select your piece or not from
listening in stereo - so you need a stereo mix, but once they accept it
you can start preparing it for their system
- for example if they have a multichannel DAC (they probably do if they
have 16 or 22 channels), or if you could take one along and take your
piece either as a multitrack project on a laptop, or as a memory stick
of stereo stems, then you could fire them out of the individual channels
of the DAC, pre-panned in stereo pairs, and then adjust the levels of
each pair being sent to individuals/pairs/groups of speakers in order to
move individual sound-objects around the room within the piece. This
obviously depends heavily on how their system and crucially the mixer is
set up because that will be your instrument to play. So if you get lots
of info in advance of the performance you could work out a great setup.
This way you are effectively mixing for stereo whilst making the piece,
then putting it into 3d in performance, and by doing this live you can
better judge the effects of
what you are doing. its quite easy really and fun. The best tip I found
was to stick the main mix in stereo in the front pair of speakers in
front of the audience and leave it their, for weight. Then augment it
with the other speakers. That way if things do go wrong at least the
piece is still there.
I wouldnt bother with ambisonics in that situation as you have no way of
mixing the piece knowing what it will eventually sound like in the room,
so you would end up going in quite unprepared.
ramble,ramble,rant,ramble..........
Bobby.
grant centauri wrote:
hi everyone.
i'm seriously considering submission of some audio pieces i've been
working on, but after looking at the submission form I am intrigued by
the possibility of using the spatialization setup they have available.
however, i know almost nothing about it or how i would go about
preparing my pieces for playback on a system like that.
my work is all done with puredyne, and i thought perhaps someone on
this list would have some suggestions for a setup that can take
advantage of a multi-speaker setup. It sounds like one system has 16
speakers and the other has 22. There is direct diffusion as well as
"3rd order Ambisonics"... which i know nothing about. Any insights?
Most of what i've got so far is just stereo, but i've been reading
about different spatial effects that can be realized with multiple
speakers, and when am i going to have another chance to play with a
system like this?
any advice would be great! thanks list. hope everyone is well.
-grant
On 10/20/11, Bruno Ruviaro <[email protected]> wrote:
LAC 2012: the Linux Audio Conference - Call for Participation
April 12-15, 2012 @ CCRMA, Stanford University
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2012/
[Apologies for cross-postings] [Please distribute]
Online submission of papers, music, installations and workshops is now
open! On the website you will find up-to-date instructions, as well as
important information about deadlines, travel, lodging, and so on. Read
on for more details!
We invite submissions of papers addressing all areas of audio processing
based on Linux and open source software. Papers can focus on technical,
artistic or scientific issues and can target developers or users. We are
also looking for music that has been produced or composed entirely or
mostly using Linux and other Open Source music software.
The Deadline for all submissions is January 11th, 2012
The Linux Audio Conference (LAC) is an international conference that
brings together musicians, sound artists, software developers and
researchers, working with Linux as an open, stable, professional
platform for audio and media research and music production. LAC includes
paper sessions, workshops, and a diverse program of electronic music.
The upcoming 2012 conference will be hosted at CCRMA, Stanford
University, on April 12-15. The Center for Computer Research in Music
and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University is a multi-disciplinary
facility where composers and researchers work together using
computer-based technology both as an artistic medium and as a research
tool. CCRMA has been using and developing Linux as an audio platform
since 1997.
http://ccrma.stanford.edu
Stanford University is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, about one
hour south of San Francisco, California. This is the first time LAC will
take place in the United States.
http://www.stanford.edu
We look forward to seeing you at Stanford in April!
Sincerely,
The LAC 2012 Organizing Team
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