Meeting Topic: New concepts in audio spatialisation and composition
Moderator Name: Veronique Adam
Speaker Name: Daniel Teige (Idee und Klang Gmbh), Ramon De Marco (Idee und Klang Gmbh), Daniel Dettwiler (Idee und Klang Gmbh)
Meeting Location: Idee und Klang studio, Dornacherstrasse 192, 4053 Basel
About 15 people gathered on this Thursday afternoon in the "Idee und Klang" studio in Basel, in order to attend a meeting about new concepts in audio spatialisation and composition.
The young Swiss company "Idee und Klang Gmbh" presented their ideas about spacial composition and audio design for media installations.
Mr Daniel Dettwiler introduced the company. He explained their desire to present a high quality studio work, either for recording, mixing or mastering. He explained also their philosophy about audiodesign, that is to create first-class audio design covering the full spectrum from "sound" to "music". The idea is to compose music for specific rooms, taking care of loudspeaker number and locations in space. The music composition is carried out in studio according to the room size and shape. He presented the example of the BMW Museum in München. The challenge was to introduce the loudspeaker systems (even subwoofer) in the different existing rooms without touching the building decoration and without any sound interactions between rooms.
Mr Ramon de Marco presented then the Magic Box project realized for one of the Shanghai EXPO 2010 Chinese pavillons. The Magic Box is the biggest 720° installation worldwide. The four walls, ceiling and floor are completely covered with LED screens and speakers. They developed a unique spacialisation software in order to orchestrate the music in a 21.2 format. We had the opportunity to visualize the movie using the surround studio installation to simulate the Magic Box 3D Soundtrack. This demonstration gave a good idea of the Shangai unique 3-dimensional experience.
Mr Daniel Teige ended the meeting with the AROS (Acousmatic Room Orchestration System) presentation. This system enables sound and music to be designed and created for a specific room. The music composition may be carried out in real spatiality, according to the number of loudspeaker systems (up to 128) and their positions in space.
After the meeting, the discussions about this interesting topic went on in a friendly brewery nearby.
The Swiss AES wishes to thank again warmly the "Idee und Klang Gmbh" team for their presentations and kind collaboration.
