ICSA 2017 4th International Conference
on Spatial Audio | September 7th to 10th, 2017, Graz, Austria #vdticsa
Ambisonics Summer School 2017
Right after the ICSA in Graz, the IEM offers continuing education courses to professionals and students through its Ambisonics Summer School. The Summer School illustrates technical and psychoacoustic principles in Ambisonics.
Moreover, it provides an opportunity to broaden the newly acquired knowledge in three workshop sessions:
Ambisonic Recording and Production:
Recording with first-order and higher-order microphones, in combinations with spot microphones and practical uses of software in post-production.
Do-It-Yourself Head Tracker and dynamic binaural synthesis in Ambisonics:
Assembly of a compact plug-and-play tracker for real-time gesture control and head-tracking as a portable USB Midi; use of DAWs for binaural synthesis and controlling spatialization parameters.
Spatialization using Cubical and Icosahedral Loudspeaker Arrays:
Beamforming with compact spherical loudspeaker arrays, efficient activation thereof as well as use in spatialization for distance and movement paths, discussion of the three-dimensional sounds perceived.
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ICSA participants pay EUR 100 or EUR 50 (students) to attend. Non-attendees of the ICSA pay EUR 200 or EUR 80 (students). Costs include attending the Summer School workshops and a contribution toward the small hardware components that are made, as well as snacks.
Registration closes on the 3rd of September 2017.
Date of event: 11th to 13th of September 2017
Venue: Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM)
IEM CUBE
Inffeldgasse 10/III
8010 Graz
Austria
The Summer School is held in English.
Ambisonic Summer School Timetable
Monday, September 11th
09:00-12:00 Introduction to the issues of the Ambisonics Summer School
- Fundamentals of Ambisonics with Demos
- Presentation of used tools (Reaper, AmbiX-Plugins)
- Introducing the workshops
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-17:00 Ambisonic Recording Session
- Setting up microphone arrays, instruments, cameras
- Recording the band Tuesday Microgrooves
- First steps in post-production (Routing, Encoding, Decoding,
- setting up a Reaper template project)
- Comparison of the used Ambisonic microphone arrays
Tuesday, September 12th
09:00-13:00 Workshop Sessions
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-18:00 Workshop Sessions
All program items and details are subject to change without prior notice.
Wednesday, September 13th
09:00-13:00 Workshop Sessions
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-16:00 Concluding event
- Presentation of the Ambisonic mixes
- Discussion
Workshop Sessions:
The workshops run in parallel in smaller groups (up to 6). Every attendee participates in each of the three workshops Ambisonic Recording and Production, Do-It-Yourself Head Tracker and dynamic binaural synthesis in Ambisonics, and Spatialization using Cubical and Icosahedral Loudspeaker Arrays.
