The car as a rolling concert hall
From November 17 to 20, 2016, the acoustics experts from the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT, together with the SAE Institute Cologne and Sound & More Medienproduktionen, will present the results of their second research project at the 2016 German Tonmeister Conference in Cologne.
In 2014, the three partners launched a pilot project in which three pop songs were re-produced and mixed for object-based playback. This summer, they met again - this time to find out the sonic differences between an object-based 3D studio environment and a 2D environment inside a vehicle and the resulting requirements for the mixing process.
Five pieces of music from different genres were newly produced for a 3D studio system and an Audi Q7 equipped with a wave field synthesis system using Fraunhofer SpatialSound Wave technology. At the Tonmeistertagung, visitors can listen to the results as a 2D mix in the AUDI Q7.
However, the SpatialSound Wave spatial sound technology can be used to transform more than just cars into rolling concert halls. With the help of Fraunhofer IDMT's acoustic room simulation, the acoustics of real concert halls can also be influenced. Using the Zurich Opera House as an example, another Fraunhofer IDMT lecture will explain how the sound technology is used there to control sound objects and to enrich and change the room reflections.
The lecture "Hybrid Object-Based Room Simulation" will take place on Sunday, November 20 at 11:30 a.m. in room R4. The speaker will be the responsible project manager Javier Frutos-Bonilla from Fraunhofer IDMT.
