[Sursound] Largest ever indoor multichannel sound art installation in the world at Eden project, Cornwall, UK

2010-11-09 Thread Augustine Leudar
of recording ambisonically , best, Augustine Leudar -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20101109/82df428c/attachment.html ___ Sursound mailing list

Re: [Sursound] good quality low noise yet miraculously cheap cardiod/unidirectional microphones ?

2011-01-17 Thread Augustine Leudar
, at 15:52, Augustine Leudar wrote: Hello - could anyone recommend a good uni/cardioid directional microphones for use with the Tascam DR 680 ? ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound

[Sursound] Why do you need to decode ambisonic/b format signals ?

2011-01-22 Thread Augustine Leudar
Im sure Im missing something obvious here but humour me. With a stereo signal I can just place two speakers in a line and have my stereo signal send two discrete channels to each speakers, each channel representiong one channel of my stereo microphone. The same with quadrophonic (with no matrixing

[Sursound] Subject: Re: Why do you need to decode ambisonic/b format signals ?

2011-01-25 Thread Augustine Leudar
Message: 6 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:56:42 +0100 From: f...@kokkinizita.net Subject: Re: [Sursound] Why do you need to decode ambisonic/b format First, don't try and send HTML to this list, as you can see it will be removed. Sorry - I dont know what you mean - as far as Iknow I haven't sent

Re: [Sursound] Subject: Re: Why do you need to decode ambisonic/b format signals ?

2011-01-26 Thread Augustine Leudar
. Re: Why do you need to decode ambisonic/b format signals (Geoffrey Barton) 2. Re: Why do you need to decode ambisonic/b format signals (Steven Dive) 3. Subject: Re: Why do you need to decode ambisonic/b format signals ? (Augustine Leudar) 4. Re: Subject: Re: Why do you

[Sursound] How many of you have sound related Phds in and what were your Phd research proposals ?

2011-05-11 Thread Augustine Leudar
Hello all, This is a question for those who have studied or are about to study sound art, or sound related studies at phd level. What were your Phd proposals ? or theses in ? cheers, GUs -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

[Sursound] 32 (ish) channel soundcard for wavedield synthesis ?

2012-03-23 Thread Augustine Leudar
Hello all, I am looking to build a wavefield synthesis setup. I am looking to use about 32 channels more or less. I am currently thinking of using PCI or PCI express cards as they a reputed to be faster than USB/Firewire. The sound cards and drivers need to be relatively stable as it will be

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest, Vol 44, Issue 19

2012-03-24 Thread Augustine Leudar
it is more specific than Re: Contents of Sirsound-list digest... Today's Topics: 1. 32 (ish) channel soundcard for wavedield synthesis ? (Augustine Leudar) 2. Re: 32 (ish) channel soundcard for wavedield synthesis ? (Michael Chapman) 3. Re: 32 (ish) channel soundcard for wavedield

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest, Vol 44, Issue 20

2012-03-25 Thread Augustine Leudar
message you are replying to, so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Sirsound-list digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Sursound Digest, Vol 44, Issue 19 (Augustine Leudar) 2. Re: Sursound Digest, Vol 44, Issue 19 (Michael Chapman) 3. Re: 32 (ish) channel soundcard for wavedield

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest, Vol 44, Issue 22

2012-03-27 Thread Augustine Leudar
actually I was considering the RME HDSPe RayDAT which is actually the same price as the lightpipe but I would have to use a desktop and I want to use a fast laptop with a ssd drive (thus the need for firewire) On 27 March 2012 17:00, sursound-requ...@music.vt.edu wrote: Send Sursound mailing

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest, Vol 44, Issue 26

2012-03-31 Thread Augustine Leudar
Hi, Although I'm very much learning about ambisonics - I use it a lot in sound installations and surround sound musical applications. I am currently working on a couple of surround sound audio DVDs which use ambisonic panners and will work perfectly well on 5.1 systems. I found panning

[Sursound] Question about directional bands

2012-04-01 Thread Augustine Leudar
I am getting a many opinions on this as possible and I have now heard various answers. It specifically relates to boosted band and, in this scenario, elevation cues in the median plane . Blauert's 1969 experiment showed that if an if a narrow band noise or sinusoid wave with a centre frequency of

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please?

2012-04-01 Thread Augustine Leudar
again to anyone who says things like ambisonics cant compete with 5.1 please bear in mind this is like saying amplitude panning can't compete with 5.1 - it doesnt make any sense at all. You mix your tracks horizontally ,without elevation, using ambisonics plugins and burn your ac3/dts file like

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please? (Robert Greene)

2012-04-03 Thread Augustine Leudar
So I am nervously edging towards the following conclusions : 1. Music can be mixed ambisonically and then decoded or bounced down to Speaker configurations like 5.1, 7.1 ,1100.12 , stereo whatever. 2. This can all be done with software - there is no need for specialist decoders or hardware -

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest, Vol 46, Issue 6

2012-05-24 Thread Augustine Leudar
? To: Surround Sound discussion group sursound@music.vt.edu Message-ID: 4fbe1316.1030...@stackingdwarves.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 05/24/2012 11:57 AM, Augustine Leudar wrote: Hello all, I am building a six capsule ambisonic microphone. I have been told

[Sursound] microphone epiphany ?

2012-05-26 Thread Augustine Leudar
correct ? On 25 May 2012 18:05, Augustine Leudar augustineleu...@gmail.com wrote: Thankyou all for your responses - they've been a great help - especially Eric Benjamin - that makes perfect sense thanks ! There are two ways to approach the construction of such a microphone. One of them

Re: [Sursound] microphone epiphany ?

2012-05-29 Thread Augustine Leudar
Hi Aaron - which is exactly what Ill be doing over the next few weeks ! Ill be using a program called Holm Impusle - We've already measured the frequency response of the capsules individually - next we are going to measure the finished array with the capsules in sitiu. We have filled the space in

Re: [Sursound] Chasing flies with ambisoinics?

2012-05-30 Thread Augustine Leudar
This is also something I've been wondering about and trying to achieve in sound installations. A fly landed on a microphone once when I was recording in the jungle and when played back it sort of worked - sort of - but I do think the cognitive visual factors (the sound installation was in a

Re: [Sursound] Chasing flies with ambisoinics?

2012-05-30 Thread Augustine Leudar
Wow - thats real startrek material right there Dave ! I was letting my imagination wander in a similar area the other day and was wondering if the beating/harmonics caused by two beams of electromagnetic waves could somehow excite the air where their paths crossed causing a sound to eminate from

Re: [Sursound] Chasing flies with ambisoinics?

2012-05-30 Thread Augustine Leudar
Kind of already happening ! Not exactly a virtuoso performance but still pretty cool : Miniature flying robots play James Bond theme : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sUeGC-8dyk No if we could just get the noise levels of the robots down and fix a small speaker on their backs I think

Re: [Sursound] Chasing flies with ambisoinics?

2012-05-31 Thread Augustine Leudar
Thats pretty similar to an example I heard the other day. A composer had split the sound of a cello into different frequency bands and dispersed them around a lot of loudspeakers (in a line if I remember correctly) each one playing a different frequency - imagine his dissapointment when the human

Re: [Sursound] Catching the same fly twice (and a curious question)

2012-06-01 Thread Augustine Leudar
I once had a piece played atspatial audio concert and some people came to visit. Afterwards one guy came up to me and said - the sound was right there - right there in front of my face ! Was it ambionics ? Im pretty sure he just heard what he expected or hoped to hear - simply because he thought

Re: [Sursound] Catching the same fly twice (and a curious question)

2012-06-02 Thread Augustine Leudar
Interesting - must be an aspect of the cocktail effect ... On 2 June 2012 04:13, umashankar mantravadi umasha...@hotmail.com wrote: as a location sound mixer, i exploited the visual reinforcement of sound in many situations. if you are recording half a dozen people speaking, and the camera

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest, Vol 47, Issue 2

2012-06-03 Thread Augustine Leudar
That would be an interesting experiment ! Though I think the fact that the subsequent decorrelating the sound of the cello in the different speakers gave the composer the spatial effects he was looking for (it still sounded like a cello) shows it was property of the way the different frequncy

Re: [Sursound] B- Format to A-format conversion for an ambisonics fx

2012-06-03 Thread Augustine Leudar
Hi Sero, I use ICST quite a lot as well - I do as you say and just apply the effects to the signals before sending them into ambipanning~ I'm not sure why converting to from B - format A - format will necessarily allow you more creative possibilities - I'm not really sure why you would do that, A

Re: [Sursound] Setting up my first ambisonic system (Anthony Palomba)

2012-06-08 Thread Augustine Leudar
People will always tell you you need more speakers, but you could do some great stuff with 12 speakers. Im just building my own portable setup myself . If your using max you could easily combine ambsonics with VBAP for spacialisation. For software that works with max I would recommend ICST, Spat

Re: [Sursound] B- Format to A-format conversion for an ambisonics fx (SERO SERO)

2012-06-09 Thread Augustine Leudar
Hi Sero, Im not quite sure what you are trying to do and have missed a few posts so obviously if this post doesnt apply disregard it. But are you trying to create a delay line that follows the original soundsource (ie when the original sound source is in , say, speaker 1 the delay is still

Re: [Sursound] The horse test: a (possible) experiment to throw light on the cognitive role in spatial perception

2012-06-12 Thread Augustine Leudar
Love it. I reckon it would work the other way round too. Show people the horse or whatever and then play them the sound through the speaker . There has been a lot of experiments like this one that particularily springs to mind is WALLACH, H. (1940) The role of head movements and vestibular and

Re: [Sursound] The horse test: a (possible) experiment to throw light on the cognitive role in spatial perception

2012-06-12 Thread Augustine Leudar
bah - you ruin everything Dave - I was really looking forward to trying to justify bringing a horse into our department and using this list as justification for such randomness Although the principle is sound, there's a problem with using a horse - they have a very big presence, not least

[Sursound] List of open source software for wavefield synthesis

2012-07-05 Thread Augustine Leudar
Hello all, I am currently making a WFS setup and would like to check out what software is available (windows,mac or linux) . Could we compile a list of software (preferably open source) avialable for wavefield synthesis on this thread, thanks , Gus -- next part -- An HTML

Re: [Sursound] List of open source software for wavefield synthesis

2012-07-05 Thread Augustine Leudar
some nice suggestions here = anyone know of anything that works on windows ? On 5 July 2012 21:44, Augustine Leudar augustineleu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Eric, Just a small setup to start with - 32 channels. 4 behringer ADAT converters (ADA8000 ) and an RME Raydat soundcard in a Rackmount PC

Re: [Sursound] higher order ambisonics over 8 to 10 loudspeakers

2012-07-09 Thread Augustine Leudar
I cant remember the formula off hand but it important ,I am told, to use the correct number of speakers for the order you are using - so if you use too many speakers for the order that can also muddy up the localisation. Someone will enlighten us Im sure but is it : the order number + 1 squared

Re: [Sursound] higher order ambisonics over 8 to 10 loudspeakers

2012-07-09 Thread Augustine Leudar
that is for 3d by the way but not sure ... anyone ? On 9 July 2012 12:31, Augustine Leudar augustineleu...@gmail.com wrote: I cant remember the formula off hand but it important ,I am told, to use the correct number of speakers for the order you are using - so if you use too many

Re: [Sursound] List of open source software for wavefield synthesis

2012-07-16 Thread Augustine Leudar
Just wan t to add this fantastic bit of oftware by Matt Montag - really nice gui and even works in windows by double clicking an exe file so no compiling to be done ! : https://github.com/mmontag/WFS-Designer -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Re: [Sursound] List of open source software for wavefield synthesis

2012-07-28 Thread Augustine Leudar
So I was wondering if any of you have used any of the wavefield synthesis software mentioned here and what the results were like. I am having great fun with soundscape renderer at the moment - anybody any experience with any of the others ? How effective was the spatialisation (especially

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone explain this ?

2012-08-07 Thread Augustine Leudar
I personally think that these things can sometimes happen due to weird room reflections , resonances modes, the position of the television etc interacting weirdly with certain frequencies. I will never forget one of these events when I recorded bird sound. Played back on my crappy laptiop speakers

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone explain this ?

2012-08-07 Thread Augustine Leudar
of Technology University of Derby, UK tel: 01332 593155 e: p.len...@derby.ac.uk -Original Message- From: sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Augustine Leudar Sent: 07 August 2012 12:24 To: richarddob...@blueyonder.co.uk; Surround Sound

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone explain this ?

2012-08-13 Thread Augustine Leudar
I struggled to recreate this effect - my last paper was on creating vertical illusions with all these cues etc. The conclusion I reached was that they can only effectively be created by accident or by nailing a speaker to a tree. On 13 August 2012 12:07, Dave Malham dave.mal...@york.ac.uk wrote:

[Sursound] Wavefield synthesis in the woods

2012-08-28 Thread Augustine Leudar
Hello all - just a photo of a recent sound installation for the sounflower festival last week : http://i48.tinypic.com/2eusz04.jpg We had our wee wavefield synthesis system hidden in the trees on 2 acres of woodland and then several larger speakers dotted around for sounds which used

Re: [Sursound] Wavefield synthesis in the woods

2012-08-28 Thread Augustine Leudar
P.S thanks to Sounscape renderer and Matt Montag for letting me use there fantastic software ! On 28 August 2012 12:31, Augustine Leudar augustineleu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all - just a photo of a recent sound installation for the sounflower festival last week : http://i48.tinypic.com

[Sursound] Question about plane waves, and the precedence effect

2012-09-12 Thread Augustine Leudar
Hi all, This is a question for those with knowledge of WFS. One of the properties of plane waves propagated with a single line array on a Wavefield synthesis system is that as you walk down the array the sound follows you appearing to emanate from the nearest loudspeaker . I was wondering if this

Re: [Sursound] Question about plane waves, and the precedence effect

2012-09-12 Thread Augustine Leudar
hmm - thats weird because I get this effect even if the plane wave isnt orthogonal to the array - perhaps something is configured wrongly. On 12/09/2012, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 01:17:23PM +0100, Augustine Leudar wrote: This is a question

Re: [Sursound] Question about plane waves, and the precedence effect

2012-09-12 Thread Augustine Leudar
another question is - is our auditory system able to take account of the curvature of a wavefront to estimate the distance of a source or does it only use other cues such as the spektral content of the sound etc etc On 12/09/2012, Augustine Leudar augustineleu...@gmail.com wrote: hmm - thats

Re: [Sursound] Question about plane waves, and the precedence effect

2012-09-12 Thread Augustine Leudar
at least account for it and continue working. jim On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Augustine Leudar augustineleu...@gmail.com wrote: hmm that might be it - they are not the best speakers in the world ! the effect is not noticable if you stand more than a metre or two away from the array

Re: [Sursound] Question about plane waves, and the precedence effect

2012-09-23 Thread Augustine Leudar
waves. Greetings Helmut www.syntheticwave.de Am 12.09.2012 14:17 schrieb Augustine Leudar augustineleu...@gmail.com : Hi all, This is a question for those with knowledge of WFS. One of the properties of plane waves propagated with a single line array on a Wavefield synthesis system

Re: [Sursound] Question about plane waves, and the precedence effect

2012-09-23 Thread Augustine Leudar
by the way have any of you seen this : http://www.syntheticwave.de/HOLOPLOT_Loudspeaker_Modules.htmhttps://ex2k7.qub.ac.uk/OWA/redir.aspx?C=jMjb6VGWPE2C03uwInbI6NzL1xn6bM9IpE_V4FFPuYLdaVy2otKYLbtqGTJydNHU9qsGKXoXCo8.URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.syntheticwave.de%2fHOLOPLOT_Loudspeaker_Modules.htm far

Re: [Sursound] 3D Array

2012-09-26 Thread Augustine Leudar
Hi Steven, 1. Identical speaker will be preferable - but, and I know some will disagree, not essential. 2.The speaker layout - if you use max tryout ICSTs plugin which let you specify the speaker layout and are reasonably flexible. 3.Things can translate well from small setups to big ones - I have

Re: [Sursound] Question about plane waves, and the precedence effect

2012-09-29 Thread Augustine Leudar
encoder I just cant see how there would be crazy activity on he xyz and not the w - all he meteres read is pressure /gain from respective summed/deducted capsules On 29 September 2012 23:25, Paul Hodges pwh-surro...@cassland.org wrote: --On 29 September 2012 23:08 +0100 Augustine Leudar

Re: [Sursound] Low cost mobile ambisonic recording possible ?

2012-10-03 Thread Augustine Leudar
I wouldn't go into the H2 line or mic inputs - they are very noisy - but Umahankars modified H2 which will take your Tetramic direct to the h2 (by removing the capsules in the H2 and replacing them with a 5pin xlr) is a project I have had on the back burner for a while and should give you an

Re: [Sursound] Take a Load off Intel (and put the Load on IC)

2012-10-06 Thread Augustine Leudar
I am not sure about the second part of your post. But with regards to the first half did you consider using max msp (or probably supercollider) ? you could control as many channels as you want with a computer and control them with almost anything from a wii controller via blue tooth to more or

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-08 Thread Augustine Leudar
so ... what's all this about a portal ? On 9 October 2012 01:24, Robert Greene gre...@math.ucla.edu wrote: This is funny but it is of course wrong, I like facebook a lot, but I dislike text messages, and so on. Which general types of things one likes may develop early, but the details are

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-10 Thread Augustine Leudar
It definitely behoves you to remain among us Carsten (=; On 10 October 2012 11:29, Carsten Bohn c...@bignote.de wrote: It has sort of got lost in the melee. Try: http://mur.mu.rs/?p=560 https://www.facebook.com/**TransDimensionalPortalhttps://www.facebook.com/TransDimensionalPortal

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-10 Thread Augustine Leudar
an academic duel to the death over facebook - swashbuckling stuff ! On 10 October 2012 18:20, Martin Leese martin.le...@stanfordalumni.orgwrote: Carsten Bohn wrote: It has sort of got lost in the melee. ... This list has an amazing side-effect, which is : getting to know new words

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-11 Thread Augustine Leudar
What about a forum ? I mean mailing lists are s 1980s - with a forum you can easily see/search for earlier posts and topics ? Is such a suggestion blasphemous ? On 11 October 2012 17:55, Charlie Richmond charlie@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Stefan Schreiber

Re: [Sursound] [ot] new and interesting words

2012-10-12 Thread Augustine Leudar
your post is almost enough to distract me from my work Sampo , but no... must resist.. On 12 October 2012 18:49, Sampo Syreeni de...@iki.fi wrote: On 2012-10-10, Martin Leese wrote: f.e. M?l?e : which Google translates in german to something like fray in naval warfare? !? My English

Re: [Sursound] Spherical speakers ?

2012-10-18 Thread Augustine Leudar
-10-18 12:49 PM, Augustine Leudar wrote: Spherical speakers ? Are there such things ? - I tried googling to no avail. I dont mean something like this : http://www.instablogsimages.**com/images/2007/08/13/eole-**system_48.jpghttp://www.instablogsimages.com/images/2007/08/13/eole-system_48.jpg

Re: [Sursound] Spherical speakers ?

2012-10-18 Thread Augustine Leudar
hmm - I get the following mesage : An HTML attachment was scrubbed... then a broken link On 19 October 2012 03:19, Neil Marcia Adams neilnmar...@gmail.com wrote: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Re: [Sursound] Spherical speakers ?

2012-10-20 Thread Augustine Leudar
actually the dodecahedron things would work fine for my purposes, actually normal speakers work fine, I make sound art installations - outdoor ones, and there are certain instances where it might be useful to have a speaker that propogated sounds in all directions (as in real life the sound of say

Re: [Sursound] Uses for spherical speakers

2012-10-23 Thread Augustine Leudar
Sperical speakers have massive and obvious applications for holophopny - or creating audio holograms. This may not be much use for many home listeners - but has many , many uses for theatre, sound art etc On 22 October 2012 23:46, etienne deleflie edelef...@gmail.com wrote: I think this

Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-07 Thread Augustine Leudar
obviously Id love to spend millions of pounbds on the best sytem - but these days getting any money at all for experimental arts projects is challenging ! On 07/12/2012, Gregorio Garcia Karman ggkar...@musicologia.com wrote: Dear Augustine, I guess you are right. Congratulations for your past

Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-07 Thread Augustine Leudar
yes Matts uses Vbap between two arrays for height - but only works on windows thus far On 7 December 2012 21:50, Miguel Negrao miguel.negrao-li...@friendlyvirus.org wrote: A 07/12/2012, às 17:05, Augustine Leudar escreveu: Thanks Joseph, Actually Miguel works in the same room as me

Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-08 Thread Augustine Leudar
HI Jorn, Thanks for the well informed reply as usual. honestly, for a system like that, i wouldn't think about windows even for a split second. there is really only one sane system choice, and that is clearly linux. for your frontend and user experience, by all means go with windows if it

Re: [Sursound] remarks on with-height wfs

2012-12-08 Thread Augustine Leudar
On 8 December 2012 12:56, Jörn Nettingsmeier netti...@stackingdwarves.netwrote: On 12/08/2012 12:46 AM, Augustine Leudar wrote: yes Matts uses Vbap between two arrays for height - but only works on windows thus far unless i'm misunderstanding something, that remark doesn't make sense

Re: [Sursound] remarks on with-height wfs

2012-12-08 Thread Augustine Leudar
more effective proximity Another question is why you would use WFS for the horizontal part at all. Does it offer anything you need and that HOA can't do ? Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd

[Sursound] Proximity illusions - WFS vs HOA

2012-12-12 Thread Augustine Leudar
Ok lets have a proximity off ! One of the things that interests me most in the work Im doing is creating proximity illusions. One member of this board asked my why I would choose WFS over HOA for the horizontal plane and my answer was that WFS could create more effective proximity illusions.

Re: [Sursound] Proximity illusions - WFS vs HOA

2012-12-12 Thread Augustine Leudar
sorry - wfs - wavefield synthesis - HOA - higher order ambisonics On 12 December 2012 14:43, David Pickett d...@fugato.com wrote: I must have missed the beginning of this. What does WFS stand for? W... Field System? David At 06:10 12-12-12, Augustine Leudar wrote: Ok lets have

Re: [Sursound] a quick tutorial video on how to create an impulse response

2012-12-12 Thread Augustine Leudar
Ha I know Rodrigo well ! Will give it a watch On 12 December 2012 14:50, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay tremb...@gmail.comwrote: Dear all Thanks to Rodrigo Constanzo we have the first video tutorial of how to use and abuse the fruit of the HIRT (the HISS Impulse Response Toolbox). This time

Re: [Sursound] Proximity illusions - WFS vs HOA

2012-12-12 Thread Augustine Leudar
in a speaker triangle (J?rn Nettingsmeier) 2. Proximity illusions - WFS vs HOA (Augustine Leudar) 3. a quick tutorial video on how to create an impulse response (Pierre Alexandre Tremblay) 4. Re: Proximity illusions - WFS vs HOA (David Pickett) 5. Re: Proximity illusions - WFS

Re: [Sursound] Proximity illusions - WFS vs HOA

2012-12-12 Thread Augustine Leudar
I look forward to hearing that Fons - if you ever need a beta tester let me know On 12 December 2012 22:25, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 07:20:31PM +0100, Natasha Barrett wrote: 1. Proximity illusions on WFS at IRCAM: all four sides WFS arrays (BTW

Re: [Sursound] Proximity illusions - WFS vs HOA

2012-12-14 Thread Augustine Leudar
I would use Vbap =- you could play with the panning laws as well. You could also use individual speakers as individual instruments if they weren't moving - that was you are not faking anything - you are not creating a phantom images, no fake hrtfs, - the sound sounds like its coming from the top

Re: [Sursound] Proximity illusions - WFS vs HOA

2012-12-14 Thread Augustine Leudar
One of my supervisors who was researching this said it gave them awful headaches ! On 13 December 2012 11:31, Dave Malham dave.mal...@york.ac.uk wrote: (http://www.lradx.com/) or acoustic spotlights (http://www.holosonics.com/technology.html) where the ultrasonic sources are grouped together

Re: [Sursound] Maximum number of output channels possible in one single pc today ?

2013-01-21 Thread Augustine Leudar
P.S. YOu might want to get in touch with a guy called Steve Barbar of LARES-Lexicon they apparently have buil WFS synthesis systems of 600+ channels with tracking for the actors in theatre productions using the SoundMan-Server software.Charlie

Re: [Sursound] Broadcasting b-format over 802.11g to Ambisonic speaker system

2013-01-26 Thread Augustine Leudar
I did a multichannel sound installation recently in a park that required over half a km of XLR cables - with attendant health and safety laws and it was hell - cables had to be routed through trees, over walkways, building etc with a cherry picker. I looked into some wireless solutions but wasnt

Re: [Sursound] Broadcasting b-format over 802.11g to Ambisonic speaker system

2013-01-27 Thread Augustine Leudar
Hi - We did this for one sound installation that was quadrophonic and prerecorded . We had two stereo SD card players connected to the same power source. The SD card players would start playing automatically when switched on so the quadrophonic image would work and would be synched automatically -

Re: [Sursound] Broadcasting b-format over 802.11g to Ambisonic speaker system

2013-01-29 Thread Augustine Leudar
theres also the wirless bluetooth speakers from creative : http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003MAJM4U/ref=asc_df_B003MAJM4U11695696?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLEtag=hydra0b-21linkCode=asncreative=22206creativeASIN=B003MAJM4Uhvpos=1o1hvexid=hvnetw=ghvrand=704497245304525378hvpone=hvptwo=hvqmt= they get rid of

Re: [Sursound] anyone in Gran Sasso region able to record an impulse response?

2013-02-06 Thread Augustine Leudar
I will be in Florence from April till July and have a six channel microphone Umashankas Velabn design which can be used for ambisonics of or just the raw channel recordings - I intend to cllibrate the microphone sometime this month - if thats any good - sounds fascinating ! On 6 February 2013

Re: [Sursound] anyone in Gran Sasso region able to record an impulse response?

2013-02-06 Thread Augustine Leudar
P.S. I could use a quiet laptop , good quality portable battery powered speaker and Holm acoustics impulse response software : http://www.holmacoustics.com/holmimpulse.php -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Re: [Sursound] anyone in Gran Sasso region able to record an impulse response?

2013-02-06 Thread Augustine Leudar
Hmm sounds like Giuseppe is your best bet Hi, Maybe I can do that. I have a Soundfield ST450 with a laptop+RME. If there is a way I can bring a Genelec to do sweep, otherwise balloons. I live near Rome, one hour away from gran sasso. Saluti. Giuseppe Sent from my iPhone On 06/feb/2013,

Re: [Sursound] Spheres, Argon, and IRs

2013-02-08 Thread Augustine Leudar
That was my assumption - being locked in a sphere with an atmosphere of pure argon would play havoc with my iphone reception I believe the plan is to record the IR before the hatch is closed and the sphere pumped full of argon. Hence the need to make the measurement soon. So, simulate with

Re: [Sursound] anyone in Gran Sasso region able to record an impulse response?

2013-02-08 Thread Augustine Leudar
From: sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu [sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Augustine Leudar [augustineleu...@gmail.com] Sent: 08 February 2013 21:12 To: Richard Lee; Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] anyone in Gran Sasso region able to record an impulse

[Sursound] 8+ channel players ?

2013-02-09 Thread Augustine Leudar
I've got a couple of installations that require a standalone device that will play 8 or more channels (octophonic mixes so all tracks need to be played simultaneously) can anyone think of an affordable standalone player ? The museum staff will not know anything about audio technology so preferably

Re: [Sursound] 8+ channel players ?

2013-02-09 Thread Augustine Leudar
don't test it, so... Cheers, Alexandre Le 9 févr. 2013 à 22:24, Augustine Leudar a écrit : I've got a couple of installations that require a standalone device that will play 8 or more channels (octophonic mixes so all tracks need to be played simultaneously) can anyone think

Re: [Sursound] 8+ channel players ?

2013-02-09 Thread Augustine Leudar
without On 10 February 2013 00:21, Augustine Leudar augustineleu...@gmail.comwrote: that looks reasonable thanks - so let me just double check - this can play all 16 tracks simultaneously in sync ? On 10 February 2013 00:08, Alexandre Rocca roccaalexan...@yahoo.frwrote: Hi

Re: [Sursound] 8+ channel players ?

2013-02-09 Thread Augustine Leudar
without a computer (ie its not just an interface) with just a usb stick ? On 10 February 2013 00:23, Augustine Leudar augustineleu...@gmail.comwrote: without On 10 February 2013 00:21, Augustine Leudar augustineleu...@gmail.comwrote: that looks reasonable thanks - so let me just double

Re: [Sursound] 8+ channel players ?

2013-02-10 Thread Augustine Leudar
perhaps.. a PC would better On 10 February 2013 11:16, Oli Larkin olilar...@googlemail.com wrote: On 10 Feb 2013, at 11:05, Augustine Leudar wrote: I m even thinking the best idea would be to use a apple mini and a motu soundcard. If I can program the apple mini to open an eight

Re: [Sursound] 8+ channel players ?

2013-02-10 Thread Augustine Leudar
Thanks Eero , I know what you mean about reliability. I think if the computer is disconected from the internet with a stripped down operating system that isnt trying to update itself , connected to the internet or even without a keyboard mouse and monitor (so noone can fiddle) it should be ok.

Re: [Sursound] 8+ channel players ?

2013-02-10 Thread Augustine Leudar
Thanks for that ! On 10 February 2013 16:57, Alexandre Rocca roccaalexan...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi, About Allen Heath ICE-16 sound card. 16 channels player and recorder, in standalone Le 10 févr. 2013 à 01:59, Augustine Leudar a écrit : that looks reasonable thanks - so let me just double

Re: [Sursound] 8+ channel players ?

2013-02-10 Thread Augustine Leudar
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On 10 Feb 2013, at 11:05, Augustine Leudar wrote: I m even thinking the best idea would be to use a apple mini and a motu soundcard. If I can program the apple mini to open an eight channel max patch in runltime upon starting is should just

Re: [Sursound] 8+ channel players ?

2013-02-11 Thread Augustine Leudar
Hi, I'm probably going use a motu ultralite soundcard with a mini pc with stripped down windows or linux - I've already written my own software that plays interleaved files so I don't need to buy any 3rd party software - I was just curious to see what standalone devices were out there. The whole

Re: [Sursound] Unusual Binaural Head

2013-02-12 Thread Augustine Leudar
Im assuming these binaural recordings areto belistened back on headphones ? I didnt get that impression from the vid... On 12 February 2013 10:51, Dave Malham dave.mal...@york.ac.uk wrote: Interesting comments re Ambisonic reproduction in section 0014 of that patent! Dave --

Re: [Sursound] multichannel reverb

2013-02-15 Thread Augustine Leudar
Spats reverb sounds amazing. You might also want to look at Quik Quaks Rayspace- its only quadraphonic but he might be worth contacting to see if he has anything in development. On 15 February 2013 01:49, j.l.ander...@phonecoop.coop wrote: Hello Adrian, If you're up for implementing

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest,

2013-02-18 Thread Augustine Leudar
Oak, Hazel, Elm though there would have been some pine. (what forests did they have?) regards Dr Peter Lennox School of Technology, Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology University of Derby, UK e: p.len...@derby.ac.uk t: 01332 593155 From:

Re: [Sursound] FW: [allowed] Re: Gran Sasso - first impressions

2013-02-18 Thread Augustine Leudar
Would like to get some of these : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20773690 On 18 February 2013 12:52, umashankar manthravadi umasha...@hotmail.comwrote: I meant this message for the group umashankar From: umasha...@hotmail.com To: s...@mchapman.com Subject: RE: [Sursound] [allowed]

Re: [Sursound] Unusual Binaural Head

2013-02-18 Thread Augustine Leudar
I thought they'd spent years working out the average shaped head - surely having ears in your nose is going to mess up the ILD ITDs, minute reflections etc used for localisation, directional bands etc ? - plus there's no shoulders also reflections from which are also used used for elevation

Re: [Sursound] Any experience with dome acoustics?

2013-02-18 Thread Augustine Leudar
Hi there - I did several large (about 4 acres) walk through sound installations in the dome shaped tropical biome at the Eden project in Cornwall . I guess my application would be very different from yours. I designed the sound installation in an adjacent dome first - there were the weirdest

Re: [Sursound] Any experience with dome acoustics?

2013-02-18 Thread Augustine Leudar
Please let us know anything you find out On 18 February 2013 17:50, Dave Malham dave.mal...@york.ac.uk wrote: The guys you need to talk to are Dave Worrall and Kimmo Vennonen who have one a lot of things in Geodesic domes down in Oz. Dave, at least, was a member of this group- he as a

Re: [Sursound] Any experience with dome acoustics?

2013-02-19 Thread Augustine Leudar
You need LOTS of very closely aligned speakers and the software will take a while to install/learn, then rendering the channels also takes time if you do it that way. The holosonic point source next to the ear is my holy grail - I havent got it yet - but I am told IRcams system can do this. I

Re: [Sursound] Any experience with dome acoustics?

2013-02-19 Thread Augustine Leudar
Lennox School of Technology, Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology University of Derby, UK e: p.len...@derby.ac.uk t: 01332 593155 -Original Message- From: sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Augustine Leudar Sent: 19 February 2013 11:50

Re: [Sursound] the power of doppler shift illusion

2013-02-27 Thread Augustine Leudar
I used whispers in a sound installations quite often . We had several PA speakers hidden around the trees and amongst other things whispers were on the soundscape (in the darkness) . I dont really recall any proximity illusions being created but I had the whispers at the volume that was not a lot

Re: [Sursound] (no subject)

2013-03-04 Thread Augustine Leudar
I think the person is genuine - I just think some spam virus has hacked into his email address - someone should probably email him and let him know On 4 March 2013 14:24, David Pickett d...@fugato.com wrote: At 04:50 04-03-13, Harry Saunders wrote: SPAM removed Can the list owner please

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