Symbols and Boundaries

2015
  • Type: interactive soundfield installation 
  • Media: octophonic (8-channel) sound system, nearables, mobile phone, LED light, MAX, Zirkonium MK II, Ableton Live, OSC
  • Capacity: multiple participants
  • Duration: varies
  • Dimension: 12m by 12 m
  • Version I: 2015.11.28 ZKM Globale: inSonic (Aesthetics of Spatial Audio in Sound, Music, and Sound Art), Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Acknowledgement: the 2015 inSonic project team
  • Project description: The author presents a novel compositional framework to guide designing interplay between moving listeners and sound objects in space. Demonstrated by a case study of interactive octophonic installation, the presented framework offers new ways to articulate and analyze artistic interplay using real-world location context as a spatial composition canvas.
  • Documentation: Fan, Y.Y., Algorithmic Spatialization using Object-based Audio and Indoor Positioning System, Leonardo Music Journal 29, MIT Press, 2019 [PDF]
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