In the framework of this ERC project, the CICM (Centre de recherche Informatique et Création Musicale) is upgrading its studio originally equipped with a 16-loudspeaker hemispherical array for sound reproduction in High-Order Ambisonics (HOA). During the ERC project, the team will conduct in situ prototyping of tools for spatial audio processing, perceptive tests and host…
This work presents the design of a 36-loudspeaker 3D ambisonics system without a southern hemisphere within fixed architectural constraints. The study evaluates candidate configurations using condition numbers, vector-energy (VE) and velocity-vector (VV) metrics, and discusses hardware choices such as DAC. Article available on Zenodo
Paris 8 University, the Maison des Sciences Humaines et Sociales Paris Nord, in partnership with the University of Gedaï (Tokyo, Japan), invite the Ensemble Cairn for a concert highlighting Japanese music and the question of sound space. In Japanese, the concept of Ma, whose kanji depicts a sun (日) framed by a gate (門), refers…
Alain presented the G3S project in a keynote entitled “Escaping the Technological Standardization of Musical Creation by Generative AI” (moderated by Anne) during the event “Assises de l’Intelligence Artificielle : Perspectives critiques et pratiques créatives” organized by Université Paris 8 on March 5-6. The event aimed to bring together students, teachers, researchers, university services, and local…
The widespread availability of equipment and processes for creating sound spaces in the digital audio field has been accompanied by a musical and technical convergence towards certain ‘mainstream’ spatialization processes based on the acoustic modeling of point sources in a reverberant environment. But the question arises to understand how far this approach of sound spatialization…