We invite participants interested in spatial audio to take part in a 2 hour design and ideation workshop focused on New Interfaces for Spatial Musical Expression. The workshop will focus on the design and lo-fi prototyping of novel interfaces for spatial music. Participants will discuss what such interfaces might look, feel, and behave like, and…
The G3S team hosted a hybrid workshop at the ICAD 2026 conference, held on July 30th in Barcelona, entitled “Designing Interfaces for Spatial Musical Expression: An Ideation Workshop”. A total of 17 sound and music researchers participated across hubs in Bielefeld (Germany), Troy (USA), and Barcelona (Spain). The workshop explored the design and lo-fi prototyping…
At JIM26 in Lille, Arnau Gran i Romero proposed a demonstration of a spatial synthesizer he is developing as part of his PhD thesis. This synthesizer is based on a spectral reformulation of 2D ambisonics introduced in the AES paper “Exploring 2D Ambisonics by Amplitudes and Phases” (Bonardi et al., 2026). This reformulation describes the…
How can a programming language as Faust inspire and help shape our research, research-creation, and teaching activities in a Music Department? The answer may differ from what would be given in a computer science department. What value do we see in teaching Faust to music students and musicologists, in using this language to generate timbres…
We presented at AES26 a spectral-like reformulation of 2D ambisonics, enabling an alternative representation of the sound field in terms of amplitudes and phases. We hypothesise that it simplifies the representation; creative manipulation of 2D ambisonics, beyond encoded directional point sources. Paper available here: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=23168
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…
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 G3S research team was delighted to travel to Reims for our very first on‑site meeting with a partner, Philippe Giordani at the Césaré Creation Center (Centre National de Création Musicale, CNCM). It was a very exciting and inspiring day. We spent hours brainstorming on the relationship between space, listening devices, and musical composition. Philippe Giordani introduced…
On December 4th, we were invited to present the G3S project at Improtech, at IRCAM. Organized as part of the REACH project, the Improtech international workshop-festival is dedicated to combining the universal art of improvisation with digital intelligence cultures through a series of conferences, interdisciplinary workshops, installations, performances, and concerts. This was our first opportunity…