Hi Dave, The Orbit Pavilion is my project (the sound component anyhow).
I did the work for NASA as an independent artist, but I also work for Arup, so I mixed and mastered in our SoundLabs. We used orbital trajectories of 19 earth science satellites currently monitored by the Jet Propulsion Lab. The positional data of the spacecraft is publicly available, just took some Python wrangling to get the trajectories into pannable spherical coordinates. I used Max for the spatialization. I assigned one sound to each satellite to give an aural impression of their movements above us. The paths were sped up so that an orbit would take about 10s, rather than the ~90mins it takes in real life. Occasionally the satellites stop and speak their position in real time, calibrated for the lat/long and orientation of the installation site, so you can point to where they are above you. You can hear a binaural render here: http://shanemyrbeck.com/portfolio/orbit-pavilion/ Some details: 24 JBL AWC82s all-weather coax, arranged in a 6-8-6-4 hemisphere + a southern tropic 4 JBL ASB 6125s -- 4 2x15 subs was probably overkill, but they wanted to have the option of doing a launch sound effect... Crown DCI amps for all 3 RME fireface 802s Mac Pro We started with ambisonics, but switched to VBAP as a trade of isotropic panning for localization for the most listeners at once. Happy to share more if anyone's interested! Cheers, Shane -:---------- -:- ----------:- shanemyrbeck.com/ > Message: 10 > Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 09:33:00 +0000 > From: Dave Malham <[email protected]> > To: Surround Sound discussion group <[email protected]> > Subject: [Sursound] NASA Orbit Pavilion > Message-ID: > <CAPw+1zSGWYOE2K3Ow1M2ftxVvsdPUPGntVdsR3vA7rKneZ= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Anyone know anything about these people? > > http://www.electronicproducts.com/Aerospace/Research/Images_of_the_Day_Listen_to_satellites_orbiting_Earth_in_NASA_s_Orbit_Pavilion.aspx > > -- > > As of 1st October 2012, I have retired from the University. > > These are my own views and may or may not be shared by the University > > Dave Malham > Honorary Fellow, Department of Music > The University of York > York YO10 5DD > UK > > 'Ambisonics - Component Imaging for Audio' > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20160318/f6fc7cbd/attachment.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > > WHEN REPLYING EDIT THE SUBJECT LINE > > ALSO EDIT THE MESSAGE BODY > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Sursound Digest, Vol 92, Issue 15 > **************************************** > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20160318/c9cfda69/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
