Immersive Sounds – External Worlds

Research student meeting @ ABPU

Since 2016, Anton Bruckner Private University has been hosting the Sonic Saturday symposium and concert as part of the Ars Electronica Festival. For this year’s festival we will organize a research student meeting to allow for an informal, hands-on, in-person exchange of ideas of artistic researchers working in the field of immersive audio.

Symposium Theme

In accordance with the festival theme There Is No Planet B, the Ars Electronica digital music focus at Anton Bruckner Private University will lend its ears to immersive sonic creation as an artistic field of research sonically reflecting our world. Convinced, or at least hopeful, that multichannel speaker environments are capable of more than simply providing virtual substitute surroundings to distract us from everyday life, we want to explore the roles multichannel audio can play in reflecting and furthering our understanding of our social, physical, and biological environment.

We aim to bring together artists and researchers working in the field of multichannel audio to exchange ideas on how immersive audio can help people to understand, to hear more and to activate dissent rather than simply enabling ever more intricate aural pleasures, to be sold or rented out as “experiences.”

Overview research students meeting

FRIDAY, 9.9. 2022

SATURDAY, 10.9. 2022 | SONIC SATURDAY

Sonic Saturday: Research Students Talks

Anton Bruckner Private University, Linz (AT)

The practice of immersive listening experiences in acoustic natural spaces; Ecstasy / Light / Inertia; Eavesdropping Danube; Amplified Realities and Explorative Machines for the Sonic Recomposition of Space; BASTIMENTO; Digital Collective Action; Challenges in Distribution of Immersive Music and Sound Art; Panel Discussion

Listening Room

Anton Bruckner Private University, Linz (AT)

During the Symposium the ABPU’s ProduktionsStudio will become the space for the Listening Room. A studio with a 20.2 speaker array that will allow visitors to perceive multichannel music in a relaxed way. Visitors can enter, exit, and move freely through the space, perceiving 30 selected fixed-media pieces from the call for contributions.

Sonic Saturday: Medium Sonorum Concert

Anton Bruckner Private University, Linz (AT)

Dive deep into immersive electronic music with the 20.4 system of the Sonic Lab. This is a concert designed to perceive spatial music selected from the Call for Contributions. The program shows a variety of styles of multichannel music from around the world.

OTTOsonics: designing an accessible ambisonics venue

Manuel Mitterhuber (AT), Rojin Sharafi (IR) & Enrique Tomás (ES)

OTTOsonics is a collective project by sound artists, developers, scholars and sound engineers working on accessible audio technologies for immersive sound production. Putting the focus on the needs of artists as well as non-specialized cultural and educational institutions, our objective is facilitating the use of immersive audio. In this workshop we will introduce and discuss our methods towards designing, building and maintaining an accessible high-density array of 3D-printed loudspeakers (100 speakers or more).

Perceiving augmented sound field: the Hybrid Audio Diffusion System (HADS)

Enrique Mendoza (MX)

The HADS is a monitoring system design that combines open headphones and speaker arrays to create augmented immersive sound fields. Combining the egocentric frame of reference fixed to the head (with headphones) and the allocentric frame of reference fixed to the room (with a 20.4 speaker array), the workshop focuses on presenting participants with multiple frames of reference in an immersive 3D Audio experience

Introducing SADISS, a tool for bundling smartphones into monumental yet intricate sound systems or choirs

Lukas Bindeus, Mathias Bindeus, Isabella Forciniti (IT), Volkmar Klien (AT), Tobias Leibetseder (AT) and Astrid Schwarz (AT)

The workshop presents a hands-on introduction to SADISS, a web-based application developed in the research project “The Choir & the Sound System” at Anton Bruckner Private University. SADISS enables socially aggregated, digitally integrated sound systems to create two different forms of portable seas of sound.

Sound Installations

Anton Bruckner Private University, Linz (AT)

Dive deep into immersive electronic music with the 20.4 system of the Sonic Lab. This is a concert designed to perceive spatial music selected from the Call for Contributions. The program shows a variety of styles of multichannel music from around the world.