Open Sourcing Immersive Vinyl with KamranV

Immersive Producer and MIT Spatial Sound Lab Researcher KamranV (CyKiK) guides a workshop on how to create quadraphonic vinyl from object-oriented immersive mixes with the open-source software QUARK (Quadraphonic Universally Accessible Resource Kit). In this presentation KamranV will give a brief history of immersive audio, give a workshop on quadraphonic vinyl production (including a Dolby Atmos workflow), and explore the opportunities that open sourcing immersive audio provides.

QUARK has received three National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grants with the groundbreaking non-profit radio station dublab. For free, QUARK encodes and decodes immersive sound in real time, allowing anyone to easily distribute and listen to spatial music through all existing media including vinyl, cassette, radio, streaming video such as YouTube and music services such as iTunes and Spotify. In this presentation, KamranV will explore his recent production, CIANI/ORKEST where electronic music pioneer and five-time Grammy nominee Suzanne Ciani joins the internationally acclaimed Metropole Orkest, conducted by Simon Dobson; a bold, immersive meeting of the Buchla electronic instrument and 50-piece orchestral sound.

Member Fee: $10 ($5 students)

Non-Member Fee: $25