Spat Workshop @CNMAT

Center for New Music and Audio Technology
1750 Arch Street – Berkeley, CA
May 23-24-25, 2016

http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/event/2016/05/23/spat_workshop_may_23_24_and_25_2_6_pm

This workshop will introduce Ircam Spat, a software suite dedicated to real-time sound spatialization and artificial reverberation. The workshop is intended for composers, computer musicians, sound engineers, sound designers, video artists or scientists with interest in spatial sound.

Participants are also encouraged to bring their own projects/materials/ideas in order to discuss or build them collectively.

Pre-requesite: basic skills on Max/MSP, PureData and digital audio workstations.

Teachers: Thibaut Carpentier (Ircam), Rama Gottfried (CNMAT)
Guest speakers: Jean Bresson (Ircam), Adrian Freed, John MacCallum, Edmund Campion (CNMAT)
Local coordination: Matt Schumaker, John MacCallum, Jean Bresson

Free admission.

With the support of EFFICACe ANR-13-JS02-0004 project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR).

• General introduction: Spat concepts and architecture (T. Carpentier)

• Hands-on (Part 1):
  • Spat framework and utilities
  • Panning and source control

⇒ Max patches: cnmat-workshop-1st-day.zip

• Hands-on (Part 2):
  • Spat reverberation and room effects
  • Channels routing and monitoring
  • Binaural rendering and virtual speakers

⇒ Max patches: cnmat-workshop-2nd-day.zip

• Presentations (Part 1): Authoring Spat
  • OM-Spat and other recent developments in OpenMusic (J. Bresson)
  • Controlling Spat (and OM) using the Trajectoires mobile aplication (J. Bresson)
  • Controlling Spat using Live automations (R. Gottfried)
  • Linking Spat with digital audio workstations through OSC and ToscA (T. Carpentier)

• Presentations (Part 2)
  • The CNMAT spherical speaker array (A. Freed and J. MacCallum)
  • Spat control in Cluster X (E. Campion)
  • Spat control in Fluoresce (R. Gottfried)

• Hand-on (Part 3)
  • Presentation of Spat ForumMaxApps
  • Motion and head tracking
  • Higher-Order Ambisonic: synthesis, capture, decoding, and transformation of sound fields.
  • Panoramix: a new mixing and post-production workstation for 3D audio.

⇒ Max patches: cnmat-workshop-3rd-day.zip

• Jean-Marc Jot: Real-time Spatial Processing of Sounds for Music, Multimedia and Interactive Human-Computer Interfaces. Multimedia Systems, 7(1):55–69, 1999.
• Jean-Marc Jot and Olivier Warusfel: A Real-Time Spatial Sound Processor for Music and Virtual Reality Applications. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Banff, Canada, 1995.
• Thibaut Carpentier, Markus Noisternig, Olivier Warusfel: Twenty Years of Ircam Spat: Looking Back, Looking Forward. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Denton, United States, 2015.

• Spat
• ForumMaxApps [Free]
• ToscA [Free]
• OM7 beta incl. Spat control and patches (shared folder, 121,2+ Mo)
• Trajectoires (mobile app for drawing trajectories)

Location: 1750 Arch Street
Berkeley, CA

CNMAT is located up on a hill at 1750 Arch St., Berkeley, CA 94709 (between Hearst Ave. and Virginia Street). Please be aware that parking is a challenge around CNMAT and in Berkeley in general. Much of the area close to CNMAT is a vigorously enforced 2 hour zone, and we cannot allow guests to park on site.

For drivers, the nearest parking lot is Lower Hearst Structure, Level 2 (Scenic Ave. near Hearst Ave. in Berkeley – enter from Scenic Ave.): [MAP]

Public transit is also a good option to get to us (BART runs to Downtown Berkeley, with a 15-minute walk up to the site).