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    Ambisonics Tools

    Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST)

    The Ambisonics-tools developed at the ICST implement Ambisonics in the form of MaxMSP externals and allow the encoding and decoding in three dimensions of up to fifth-order Ambisonics. In addition they include a graphical control module for real-time manipulation of source placement and modules for algorithmic control of source motion in three-dimensional space.

    Ambisonics are an effective way of describing and projecting spatial sound. Based on the theoretical works of the late Michael Gerzon, it is more and more frequently being used not only to reproduce recordings made with a soundfield microphone and encoded in the corresponding B-format but also to place virtual sources in a periphonic space and decode them to an arbitrary number and configuration of speakers. The tools developed at the ICST implement Ambisonics in the form of MaxMSP externals and allow the encoding and decoding in three dimensions of up to fifth-order Ambisonics. In addition they include a graphical control module for real-time manipulation of source placement and modules for algorithmic control of source motion in three-dimensional space.

    Details

    • Team
      • Philippe Kocher (ICST)
      • Jan Schacher (ICST)
    • Duration

      05.06.2003 – 31.12.2017

    • Research Approaches
      • Applied research
      • Scientific research
    • More Links
      • Dateien und Quellcode
      • Martin Neukom / Jan C. Schacher: Ambisonics Equivalent Panning. In: Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference ICMC, Kopenhagen, August 2007.
      • Philippe Kocher: Raumklang mit Ambisonics in Max/MSP. In: Symposium «Musik im Raum», Karlsruhe, Juni 2007.
      • Jan C. Schacher / Philippe Kocher: Ambisonics Spatialization Tools for Max/MSP. In: Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference ICMC, New Orleans, November 2006.

    Output

    • Blog / Online-Diskussionsforen

      Schütt, Johannes & Chapman, Michael (2021): «ambisonics.ch update. The Ambisonics Association». In: Schütt, Johannes (Hg.): ambisonics.ch. Zürich: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Online unter: https://ambisonics.ch/.

    • Blog / Online-Diskussionsforen

      Schütt, Johannes & Chapman, Michael (2020): «ambisonics.ch. The Ambisonics Association». In: Schütt, Johannes (Hg.): ambisonics.ch. Ambisonics. Zürich: Zurich University of the Arts. Online unter: https://ambisonics.ch/.