Performing, recording, and producing immersive music in virtual acoustics
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The systems that allow us to experience the auditory world in three spatial dimensions are extraordinarily complex. Humans possess a remarkable ability for identifying the distance, location, and size of a sound source with high accuracy, and these spatial auditory cues fundamentally shape the way we interact with the world. Moreover, spaces impart their own distinctive coloration to sounds occurring within their walls. This thesis explores how spatial cues affect they way we create, produce, and listen to music. We take two approaches: the first uses virtual acoustics to model and simulate the acoustics of specific spaces. We show approaches for using real-time signal processing to perform concerts, produce recordings, rehearse, and study aspects of performance practice in the virtual acoustics of spaces the performers do not physically inhabit. We demonstrate our methods using acoustic measurements of two spaces: the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul and the Chiesa di Sant'Aniceto in Rome. The second topic of this thesis is signal decorrelation, a class of algorithm used to create copies of an audio signal with a controlled amount of correlation. We show several allpass filter-based decorrelation techniques and describe methods for evaluating their performance. Overall, this thesis is about understanding how architecture, music composition, and performance practice are intertwined.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Canfield-Dafilou, Elliot Kermit |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Berger, Jonathan |
| Thesis advisor | Berger, Jonathan |
| Thesis advisor | Abel, Jonathan (Jonathan Stuart) |
| Thesis advisor | Chafe, Chris |
| Thesis advisor | Fujioka, Takako |
| Degree committee member | Abel, Jonathan (Jonathan Stuart) |
| Degree committee member | Chafe, Chris |
| Degree committee member | Fujioka, Takako |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Music |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Elliot K. Canfield-Dafilou. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Music. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/tz043pz7136 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Elliot Kermit Canfield-Dafilou
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