2019
Immersive audio<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pedro Rebelo
Matilde Meireles
Michael McNight<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Are We Not Dreaming?<\/em> \u2013 an immersive sound experience based on the mythology and exploration of the Marble Arch Caves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNo man has gone before us in these depths, no one knows where we go nor what we see, nothing so strangely beautiful was ever presented to us, and spontaneously we ask each other the same question: are we not dreaming?\u201d were the words of French speleologist \u00c9douard-Alfred Martel in 1889, upon the first exploration of Marble Arch Caves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Myth, legend and exploration diaries are brought together in a unique sonic journey which immerses the listener in the evocative and intriguing acoustic environment that characterise the caves. Employing recent research into hybrid listening and 6 Degree of Freedom VR, Are We Not Dreaming?<\/em> uses innovative approaches to sound design to engage the listener in immersive storytelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The hybrid listening system uses a combination of binaural rendering on headphones and ambisonics on loudspeaker arrays. We showcase a number of scenarios that take advantage of the system and explore the notion of ambiguity, creating the sensation of blur between signals played over headphones and loudspeakers. The system is designed to allow for personalised listening experiences that are responsive to the listener\u2019s position and rotation in real-time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Are We Not Dreaming<\/em> was designed and produced by Pedro Rebelo, Michael McKnight and Matilde Meireles at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen\u2019s University Belfast emerging from a collaboration with New York University and the Seamus Heaney Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concept and Sound Design, Pedro Rebelo, Michael McNight and Matilde Meireles<\/p>\n\n\n\n Script, Sionn\u00e1n N\u00ed Nuall\u00e1in<\/p>\n\n\n\n Voices, Deirbhile Larkin and Sean \u00d3 Muireag\u00e1in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2019Immersive audio Pedro RebeloMatilde MeirelesMichael McNight Are We Not Dreaming? \u2013 an immersive sound experience based on the mythology and exploration of the Marble Arch Caves. \u201cNo man has gone before us in these depths, no one knows where we go nor what we see, nothing so strangely beautiful was ever presented to us, and spontaneously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matildemeireles.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matildemeireles.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matildemeireles.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matildemeireles.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matildemeireles.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/matildemeireles.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"http:\/\/matildemeireles.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matildemeireles.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matildemeireles.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matildemeireles.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matildemeireles.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}