Ambisonics Symposium Report

Despite some set-backs caused by volcanic ash, first year PhD students Barry Watson and Andrew Horsburgh were able to attend the 2010 Ambisonics (3D Audio) Symposium in Paris last week. The event was held at the prestigious IRCAM Centre, birthplace to avant garde forms of electronic music and their associated technologies. It featured papers from a variety of leading researchers in the field, audio demonstrations and an electro-acoustic concert utilising the impressive speaker array of the Projection Space, pictured below.

Barry presented a poster outlining his research entitled ‘Ambisonic acoustics replication for solo musicians in a digital audio workstation environment’.