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9:00am CEST

Creating and distributing immersive audio: from IRCAM Spat to Acoustic Objects

Saturday May 24, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am CEST

In this session, we propose a path for the evolution of immersive audio technology towards accelerating commercial deployment and enabling rich user-end personalization, in any linear or interactive entertainment or business application. We review an example of perceptually based immersive audio creation platform, IRCAM Spat, which enables plausible aesthetically motivated immersive music creation and performance, with optional dependency on physical modeling of an acoustic environment. We advocate to alleviate ecosystem fragmentation by showing: (a) how a universal device-agnostic immersive audio rendering model can support the creation and distribution of both physics-driven interactive audio experiences and artistically motivated immersive audio content; (b) how object-based immersive linear audio content formats can be extended, via the notion of Acoustic Objects, to support end-user interaction, reverberant object substitution, or 6-DoF navigation.

Speakers

Jean-Marc Jot

Founder and Principal, Virtuel Works LLC

Spatial audio and music technology expert and innovator. Virtuel Works provides audio technology strategy, IP creation and licensing services to help accelerate the development of audio and music spatial computing technology and interoperability solutions.

Thibaut Carpentier

STMS Lab - IRCAM, SU, CNRS, Ministère de la Culture

Thibaut Carpentier studied acoustics at the École centrale and signal processing at Télécom ParisTech, before joining the CNRS as a research engineer. Since 2009, he has been a member of the Acoustic and Cognitive Spaces team in the STMS Lab (Sciences and Technologies of Music... Read More →

Olivier Warusfel

Saturday May 24, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am CEST
C4 ATM Studio Warsaw, Poland

Audio coding and compression Audio for virtual/augmented reality environments Game Audio Interactive sound Live event and stage audio Mixing remixing and mastering Multichannel and spatial audio Networked Internet and remote audio

Presentation Type Workshop

10:30am CEST

Student Recording Competition 4

Saturday May 24, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am CEST

Saturday May 24, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am CEST
C4 ATM Studio Warsaw, Poland

11:45am CEST

The Next Generation of Immersive Capture and Reproduction: Sessions from McGill University’s Virtual Acoustic Laboratory

Saturday May 24, 2025 11:45am - 12:45pm CEST

In this workshop, we present the next generation of Immersive audio capture and reproduction through virtual acoustics. The aural room, whether real or generated, brings together the listener and the sound source in a way that fulfills both the listener’s perceptual needs—like increasing the impression of orientation, presence, and envelopment—and creates aesthetic experiences by elaborating on the timbre and phrasing of the music.
Members of the Immersive Audio Lab (IMLAB) at McGill University will discuss recent forays in creating and capturing aural spaces, using technology ranging from virtual acoustics to Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA) microphones. Descriptions of capture methods, including microphone techniques and experiments will be accompanied by 7.1.4 audio playback demos.
From our studio sessions, we will showcase updates to our Virtual Acoustics Technology (VAT) system, which uses active acoustics in conjunction with 15 omnidirectional and 32 bidirectional speakers to transport musicians into simulated environments. Workshop elements will include a new methodology for creating dynamically changing interactive environments for musicians and listeners, ways to create focus and “mix” sound sources within the virtual room, experimental capture techniques for active acoustic environments, and real-time electronics spatialization in the tracking room via the VAT system.
On location, lab members have been experimenting with hybridized HOA capture systems for large-scale musical scenes. We will showcase multi-point HOA recording techniques to best capture direct sound and room reverberance, and excerpts that compare HOA to traditional channel-based capture systems.

Speakers

Kathleen Zhang

McGill University

Mihai-Vlad Baran

Aybar Aydin

PhD Candidate, McGill University

Michail Oikonomidis

Doctoral student, McGill University

Michael Ikonomidis (Michail Oikonomidis) is an accomplished audio engineer and PhD student in Sound Recording at McGill University, specializing in immersive audio, high-channel count orchestral recordings and scoring sessions.With a diverse background in music production, live sound... Read More →

Mathew Vallejo

Jack Kelly

Richard King

Professor, McGill University

Richard King is an Educator, Researcher, and a Grammy Award winning recording engineer. Richard has garnered Grammy Awards in various fields including Best Engineered Album in both the Classical and Non-Classical categories. Richard is an Associate Professor at the Schulich School... Read More →

Wieslaw Woszczyk

Saturday May 24, 2025 11:45am - 12:45pm CEST
C4 ATM Studio Warsaw, Poland

Multichannel and spatial audio Sound design/acoustic simulation of immersive audio environments Spatial audio applications Studio recording techniques

Presentation Type Workshop

1:00pm CEST

Immersive Listening

Saturday May 24, 2025 1:00pm - 2:45pm CEST

Saturday May 24, 2025 1:00pm - 2:45pm CEST
C4 ATM Studio Warsaw, Poland