Got to help out a computer music friend in a spatial audio composition for his concert series: SElectOR (Sound Electroacoustic Orchestra). I believe this was one of the first concerts where we incorporated spatial audio – very exciting for the commmunity!
I used the IEM plugin suite for HOA encoding a 4th-order mix and decoding to speaker locations. The actual performance was deployed on a Meyer Constellation system at UCSD’s experimental theatre.
UC San Diego SElectOr is a music collective and creative incubator which connects undergraduate and graduate students in collaborative creative endeavors focused on sound and multimedia art-making. In the past, our group as curated concerts, performed live, and developed spatial audio experiences for the web. In addition to concerts and performances, the team also submits these artworks to conferences world-wide and holds workshops open to the public. The group is intended to give graduate students mentorship opportunities as they work closely with undergraduates, alumni, staff and prospective students. It is a miniature, grassroots version of the IDEAS series by long-time UC San Diego faculty Shahrokh Yadegari. Given its unofficial capacity, the group is able to operate efficiently within and outside the confines of the university.