TILBURG UNIVERSITy:
Spatial audio research for virtual reality
TILBURG UNIVERSITy:
Spatial audio research for virtual reality
TILBURG UNIVERSITy:
Spatial audio research for virtual reality
Spatial Sound Institute, Budapest
Composition and research project.
Sonotomia residence 3.0 - Audition of the Future City
Elvágyódás is a Hungarian word with no direct English translation. It captures a wanting to be away, not necessarily in a different place, but just a desire to be elsewhere.
The creation of Elvágyódás began with a curiosity to find ways to create amorphous rooms. Resonance, which usually allows us to define the space we feel we are in, transforms to become a music that is heard not in the traditional sense through our ears, but felt, vibrating through us via the architecture of the space. A music ‘for the ears of the skin’.
Using properties of the building itself, e.g. resonant frequencies, and sounds recorded in Budapest both above and below ground, multidimensional audio recordings create a hyperrealistic virtual environment. Elvágyódás is a theatre of illusion created for the 4DSOUND system in which the space itself plays the protagonist in an evolving state of being which is non-linear, undefinable and untranslatable.
Jamie Man [UK], André Fonseca [POR], Marijn Cinjee [NL]
We went to the deep underground places of Budapest. A cave system of ancient wine cellars to capture natural reflections. These reflections where recorded in all directions using 36 microphones. The complete mental auditory image was then displayed on the Spatial Sound Institute's Omniwave loudspeakers system.
From this eternal darkness, we composed electronic layers which slowly bring us up to the surface of a new world, 3000 years into the future.
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During this proces, we explored the boundaries of what would be possible with the 4DSOUND system from both a perceptual and technical standpoint. We experimented with sounds which can only exist trough spatial motion itself, and created "scanning" like sounds that seem to represent the future trying to dig down to us.
