Baltic Trail: Spatial sound experiences! 26.09 - 27.09.2019, Liepāja
Mark these dates 26.09 - 28.09.2019! You MUST be in Liepāja at the last weekend of the September! During the Baltic Trail gathering week , together with our friends and partners from Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Musical Innovation Studies Centre (MiSC) and sound guys from 3S and Bang, we are creating first ever Spatial sound concerts (showcases) in Latvia! Location: Liepāja, culture center / venue Wiktorija.
Within two show-cases seven musicans from Latvia and Lithuania as well as one from all the way from the US each will perform a 20 minute spatial music concerts -- rendition of how they see the relationship between space and music. The venue will be equipped with 17 spherically placed speakers creating a sound cube, thus providing the audience with immersive sound experience. This time the listeners will be asked to walk around the sound cube to experience different angles of spatial sound journey and gather around the performers who this time will be in the middle of the room (sound cube).
Platon Buravicky – classical and electronic music composer, educator, pianist and electronic musician from Rīga
ELVI – electronic performer and sound artist from Rīga
Glociks – electronic musician from Liepāja
Demaui – sound artist and music producer from Liepāja
Theodore Parker – an American guitarist, electro-acoustic musician and an improviser now based in Tallinn
Mantautas Krukauskas – pianist, composer and educator from Vilinus
Pijus Džiugas Meižis – electronic performer from Vilnius
For Immersive music / Spatial sound showcase: 26.09 20:00 and 27.09 17:30 Tickets -- click here!
Besides immersive music showcases, on September 27 from 12:00 till 17:00 you are welcome to experience a Spatial sound installation made by BT camp participants Glociks (LV), Demaui (LV), Fume (LT) and Theodore Parker (USA/EE). The concept and content of installation will be created during the BT week. Spatial sound installation group will work at Dirty Deal Audio Liepāja studio.
Spatial sound installation: 27.09 12:00 - 17:00 Tickets at the spot.
Here's few pictures from ELVI demo concert at @ Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Musical Innovation Studies Centre studio -- they have a sound cube with 24 speakers! 🧡
All the musicians will work with Ambisonics -- a full-sphere surround sound format. In addition to the horizontal plane, it covers sound sources above and below the listener. Unlike other multi-channel surround formats, its transmission channels do not carry speaker signals. Instead, they contain a speaker-independent representation of a sound field (called B-format), which is then decoded to the listener's speaker setup. This extra step allows the producer to think in terms of source directions rather than loudspeaker positions, and offers the listener a considerable degree of flexibility as to the layout and number of speakers used for playback. Ambisonics sound format was developed in the UK in the 1970s under the auspices of the British National Research Development Corporation.
Be aware and read more about Closing Night of Baltic Trail and Liepaja Art Forum 2019 + also check whats behind the Baltic Trail electronic music gathering 2019!
Pictures from our second spatial audio / Ambisonics workshop, during summer 2019, Liepāja.
