Immersive Music Hackathon

The Monthly Music Hackathon series presents our Immersive Music Hackathon: a day-long, non-competitive, creative event exploring immersive music in virtual and real environments.

Saturday, December 9, 2017

Noon to 10:00 PM
625 6th Ave 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10011
FREE. All are welcome!

Schedule:

11:30 AM - Doors Open
12:00 PM - Opening Talks by Special Guests
1:00 PM - Hacking, Brainstorming session
2:00 PM - Workshops start
8:00 PM - Concert / Demos

Talks

12:00 - 1:30 PM

• Ken Perlin - The Use of Music and Audio in Immersive Live VR Theater
• Pran Brandi - Introduction to Immersive Audio
• Brad Garton, Ethan Edwards & Onur Yıldırım - Integrated Music Generation and Interactive Synthesis
• Dana Abrassart - Mind, Body, & Sound
• Charles Berman - Immersive Performance

VR Playground
2:00 - 5:00
Audio Fusion Recording Studio Simulation with Sam Fisher, and other demos

Workshops

2:00 - 3:30 - Pran Brandi
Introduction to immersive audio.
This workshop introduces techniques for approaching spacial audio, including ambisonics, plugins, and DAW workflow. It is recommended to download the following free software before the workshop:

2:00 - 3:30 - Brad Garton, Ethan Edwards & Onur Yıldırım
Using RTcmix in the Unity Game Development Environment (intermediate level)

4:00 - 5:30 - Nicole Stein
WebVR: Introduction to building VR with A-Frame

4:00 - 5:30 - Brennan McTernan
How spatial audio works, the kinds of microphones and how they work, and how our ears tell our eyes where to look. Attendees should install (free) Unity 2017.2, and bring a laptop with headphones.

Demos and Performances
8:00 Presentations and sharing what we made over the course of the day

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