Wonder or wave field synthesis on max?

tomgalileo's icon

Hi!
Any hints about wave field synthesis on max?
Is there a patch that can let us use the wonder (http://gigant.kgw.tu-
berlin.de/~baalman/iintro.html) software on macintosh systems?

thanx in advance
regards

tom

jvkr's icon

The technology behind wavefield is incredibly simple (search for "tu delft wavefield"). The application is a combination of this technology and a interface to allow composers to do something with it. The most important thing though, is the speaker array, meaning tens or hundreds of speakers. This turns out to be the most complicated part (money money money).

Marije Baalman, whose application you found studied at the Technical university in Delft, and later sonology in The Hague. Apart from Berlin and another city in Germany, there's a system in Leiden as well where sonology is doing experiments and working on development. Wouter Snoei has developed software for that in SuperCollider (http://www.woutersnoei.nl/?c=wfs_screenshots).

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johan

tomgalileo's icon

thanx johan
I reply to you out list

the fact is that I wanted to compose a piece, or start composing a
piece to apply for
http://www.smc08.org/
and I was trying figuring out how....but as you make me think better
now,
if I dont have access to one of those gorgeous halls it seems I cant
work on wave field synthesis...
it requires big places

well thanx

did you ever try composing for those speaker systems?

regards

tom

On Mar 25, 2008, at 8:46 AM, jvkr wrote:

>
> The technology behind wavefield is incredibly simple (search for
> "tu delft wavefield"). The application is a combination of this
> technology and a interface to allow composers to do something with
> it. The most important thing though, is the speaker array, meaning
> tens or hundreds of speakers. This turns out to be the most
> complicated part (money money money).
>
> Marije Baalman, whose application you found studied at the
> Technical university in Delft, and later sonology in The Hague.
> Apart from Berlin and another city in Germany, there's a system in
> Leiden as well where sonology is doing experiments and working on
> development. Wouter Snoei has developed software for that in
> SuperCollider (http://www.woutersnoei.nl/?c=wfs_screenshots).
>
> _
> johan

tomgalileo's icon

On Mar 25, 2008, at 10:07 AM, TomGalileo wrote:

>
> thanx johan
> I reply to you out list
>
>
not really outlist though...
nevermind...

Stefan Tiedje's icon

TomGalileo schrieb:
> the fact is that I wanted to compose a piece, or start composing a
> piece to apply for http://www.smc08.org/ and I was trying figuring
> out how....but as you make me think better now, if I dont have access
> to one of those gorgeous halls it seems I cant work on wave field
> synthesis... it requires big places

But you can still apply for a piece to be played with the acousmonium...
You could even apply for a residency at TU-Berlin I guess. I am sure
there is interest in the creation of works for wave field synthesis...

Stefan

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