1) Tell us a little about yourself. Where are you from and what do you study?
I am Ukrainian by the origin. It may be superfluous to say that my hobby and professional passion is audio and acoustics and I am very lucky that it is so. I have just obtained my master degree in Electroacoustics in Le Mans University, France and second one in Acoustic multimedia tools and systems in National Technical University of Ukraine in a framework of double diploma program between those two universities.
2) What initiated your passion for audio? When did it start?
My interest in audio and music in general has started since my school years. I decided to visit a music school to learn how to play guitar. Also, I was invited to play drums in folk/jazz orchestra. Since that time music became an essential part of my life. Together with that my favourite subjects in high school were math and physics. These two passions helped me to determine my further steps and choose to study acoustic equipment in the university as it was a great combination of art and science. I would like to express my deep gratitude to all my teachers at Le Mans University for their lessons, experience sharing, endless help and faith in my ideas and this project. To my family for their support of my professional path in audio. And to my friends for their useful advises and testing of my prototypes.
3) Tell us about production of your submission? What is the story behind it? How long did you work on it? Was it your first entry? What kind of problem can it solve or improve?
The idea to develop the system that I have presented in a competition was inspired by an intensive development of smart-audio system market. These systems provide a broad range of possible applications and wide functionality to their users. Except, that they are not flexible in terms of radiation directivity and could not reproduce multichannel audio content. In that way, they cannot fully satisfy all customer’s needs.
Proposed system will help to solve this issue. By varying different assemblies between the cells, it will be possible to use same system to be putted in front of TV and radiates directly for one listener, or to perform wide coverage for several people, listen to common 2.0 stereo or to organize 5.0 or 6.0 home theatre.
4) Did you considered commercializing your project? Are there any business or product possibilities?
I will be of course very happy if my prototype will become one day a final product availab
le in market. However, it is quite difficult to do any further steps and improvements by myself as it will need a lot of electronic design and software development. So, I am open for further proposals and discussions!
6) Tell us about your favorite experiences at the 144th AES convention in Milan!
I cannot single out any particular tutorial or lecture at the AES convention to be my favourite (except SDA design competition of course). I just enjoyed its atmosphere completely! This event is an amazing opportunity to feel yourself as a part of audio industry, to meet colleagues from all over the word, discuss news and just have some fun together!
