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Dancing Music: Integrated MIDI-Driven Synthesis and Spatialization for Virtual Reality

Authors: Cohen, Michael; Sasaki, Masahiro

AES Convention 117 · Paper 6316 · October 2004

Abstract

We describe a unique MIDI-based spatial sound system featuring a network-driven bank of four RSS-10s (Roland Sound Space Processors) driving an eight-transducer circumferential speaker array in a" 3D Theater", enabling a three-dimensional dynamic musical space. Sound sources can be choreographed by adding dynamic positional gestures to standard MIDI files. Our sequencing system interprets such files, partitioning their data into two streams: one for MIDI tonal events, sent to synthesizers, and the other for positional data, sent simultaneously to sound spatializers, clients in a multimodal musical control of sound spatialization, synchronizable with stereographic 3D contents, for spatializing music to give real presence to an audience.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 117
AES Convention
117
Paper number
6316
Publication date
October 6, 2004
Session subject
Spatial Perception and Processing
Affiliation
University of Aizu; Aizu- Wakamatsu, Pukushima-ken, Japan (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper