Project Number
- 52
Title
- An Interactive Exploration of Computer Music Research
Description
- Interactive demonstration of psycho-acoustical virtual environments with spatial sound.
Contact
- David Waxman
Affiliation
- IRCAM
Address
- 1, Place Igor Stravinsky
- 75004 Paris
- France
- +33.1.44.78.48.20
- +33.1.42.77.29.47 fax
- 75004 Paris
- waxman@ircam.fr
WWW
Year
- 1993
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 93 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- Visitors participate in a series of interactive demonstrations focusing on three areas of IRCAM research - psychoacoustics and perception of musical pitch, rhythm, nuance, timbre and space; digital signal processing (DSP) as a means to realize sound synthesis transformations; and compositional concepts and structural transformations.
- The user interacts with the system by screen selection, piano keyboard, or microphone. The computer responds in realtime by transforming inputs into synthetic sounds. "Psychoacoustics" simulated sound in virtual spaces. "Signal Processing" gives examples of realtime sonic transformations similar to graphics morphing. "Composition" looks at macro-structural control and manipulation.
- "This exhibit demonstrates interactivity and virtual reality in the audio domain by providing examples that are themselves interactive."
Sight
- Macintosh Quadra 950, RasterOps, Macintosh IIci, NeXTcube 040 workstation
Sound
- Ariel IRCAM Signal Processing Workstation (ISPW), IRCAM NeXT Max, Opcode/IRCAM Macintosh Max
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 302 - spatial sound
Secondary
- 203 - interactive paradigm, technique
Remarks
- Presentations based upon work realized at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
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