About

This special symposium is designed to explore sound spatialisation and its relation to the sonic image, both on and off screen.  The event is hosted in combination with SCREEN, the University of Edinburgh Music Department , Sound Design MSc and the Soundings Festival.
The event will take place in the Graduate School Atrium at the department of Music starting at 5pm on the 6th February 2009 and will feature sound examples in mono, stereo, 5.1 and after the event there will be a diffusion of music across a bespoke 20 channel sound system curated by Robert Dow.

Themes

How does a spatialised sound inform our interpretation of image?
Is spatialised sound more image-like than a point source?
What technology and tools are available to explore and expand the perception of space in a cinema?
Surround sound standards beyond the cinema?
Recording distributing and listening to music in surround sound?
Virtual space, how can we create it, why is it useful?
Can space be performed?

Panel Members:

Chair: Simon Frith (University of Edinburgh)
Larry Sider (School of Sound) the case for mono
Marc Langsman (Dolby Labs) surround sound in computer games
Seb Jouan (Arup Acoustics) describing virtual space with ambisonics
Michael Edwards (University of Edinburgh), the joys of mixing contemporary music in surround

Non presenting panel members
Dr Annette Davison (University of Edinburgh), Film music
Dr Martin Parker (University of Edinburgh), electronic composition, sound design

Electroacoustic music concert

Following the symposium, Robert Dow and Pete Stollery (University of Aberdeen) will present a concert of electroacoustic music, diffusing music on CD across an array of 20 loudspeakers as part of the Soundings Festival starting at 8pm.  In between pieces, they’ll describe their approaches to spatialisation in relation to composition and performance.

Date and location

6th February 2009, 5pm until 7pm
Graduate School Atrium, Department of Music, Alison House, 12 Nicholson Square, EH8 9DF

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The symposium will be followed by a concert of music in the Reid Concert Hall curated by Robert Dow and Pete Stollery

Registration

Please register your intention to attend this event at the link sd.caad.ed.ac.uk/event/register/