Part of the Band: Virtual Acoustic Space as a Participant in Musical Performance

Zhang KYY, Baran V, Oikonomidis M, Aydin A, King RL. Part of the Band: Virtual Acoustic Space as a Participant in Musical Performance. In: Convention Paper. Audio Engineering Society; 2024. Paper 10197. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22700

@inproceedings{Zhang2024_22700,
  author = {Zhang, Kathleen Ying-Ying and Baran, Vlad and Oikonomidis, Michail and Aydin, Aybar and King, Richard L.},
  title = {{Part of the Band: Virtual Acoustic Space as a Participant in Musical Performance}},
  note = {Paper 10197},
  year = {2024},
  month = sep,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22700}
}

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AU  - Oikonomidis, Michail
AU  - Aydin, Aybar
AU  - King, Richard L.
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PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/09/27
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AB  - We detail a real-time application of active acoustics used to create a shared virtual environment over a closed audio network as a research-creation project exploring the concept of room participation in musical performance. As part of a concert given in the Immersive Media Lab at McGill University, musicians performed in a virtual acoustic environment to two audiences: an in-person one, and a second audience located in an adjacent but acoustically isolated space on the same audio network. Overall, the blending of computer-generated and acoustic sources created a specific use case for virtual acoustics, while the immersive capture and distribution method examined an avenue for producing a real-time, shared experience. Future work in this area includes audio networks with multiple virtual acoustic environments and distributions.
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