On the perception of musical groove in large-scale events with immersive sound

Mouterde T, Epain N, Moulin S, Corteel E. On the perception of musical groove in large-scale events with immersive sound. In: AES Conference: AES 2023 International Conference on Spatial and Immersive Audio. Audio Engineering Society; 2023. Paper 17. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22201

@inproceedings{Mouterde2023_22201,
  author = {Mouterde, Thomas and Epain, Nicolas and Moulin, Samuel and Corteel, Etienne},
  title = {{On the perception of musical groove in large-scale events with immersive sound}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: AES 2023 International Conference on Spatial and Immersive Audio},
  note = {Paper 17},
  year = {2023},
  month = aug,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22201}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - On the perception of musical groove in large-scale events with immersive sound
AU  - Mouterde, Thomas
AU  - Epain, Nicolas
AU  - Moulin, Samuel
AU  - Corteel, Etienne
T2  - AES Conference: AES 2023 International Conference on Spatial and Immersive Audio
M1  - Paper 17
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/08/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22201
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Immersive audio is increasingly used in large-scale live music events. The dimensions of the audience area impose that propagation times from several loudspeakers to a given audience position can be significantly different. This may be perceived by listeners as a loss of time synchronization between sound sources, which in turn affects the perception of musical groove. In this paper, we first investigate the range of propagation time differences that can occur with large-scale loudspeaker deployments. The results of a listening test confirm that time differences may degrade the rhythmic characteristics. The degradations may depend on the musical content but not on the spatialization. Mixing guidelines and methodologies are finally proposed to overcome the potential issues.
ER  -