This workshop will provide participants with an introduction to spatial audio workflows using Reaper digital audio workstation and with the Ambisonics spatial audio format.
Topics will include:
* Introduction to Spatial Audio Formats
* Thinking about spatial audio beyond film
* What is Ambisonics?
* Getting creative with Spatial Audio - Brona discusses some of her own compositions
* Ambisonic workflows in Reaper - track setup, encoding and decoding
* Binaural Mixing vs Mixing for a loudspeaker array
* Listening feedback session on Pan Pan’s 8 speaker array.
This will be a practical session where participants will have time to work on their own pieces.
What you will need:
* Your own laptop
* A pair of WIRED Headphones
* Hard drive for transferring files
* Reaper DAW
* IEM Plug-in Suite
* MCFX multichannel audio plug-in suite
* These are all available as a free download or in the case of Reaper for a free 30 day trial
If you have some of your own recorded sounds that you would like to work with then please bring them.Otherwise, we will provide you with a sound library.
Brona Martin is an electroacoustic composer and sound artist from Banagher, Co. Offaly, Ireland. Her compositions explore narrative in electroacoustic music, acoustic ecology, oral history, sound and heritage and spatial audio techniques. Brona's portfolio of works explore the layers and textures of sounds that contribute to the overall sonic-makeup of specific places both real and imaginary. Through listening, recording, analysing and processing, the layers of a soundscape are studied in great detail.
Her creative works offers an in depth and alternative listening perspective and experience where the complexity of everyday sounds are examined and rearranged into a new context. References are also made to the design of the acoustic environment where noise pollution often masks the more pleasant sounds of the natural environment.
Brona is also a Lecturer in Music and Sound at the University of Greenwich where she teaches post-production sound for film and games and composition for immersive audio. She is the Knowledge-exchange lead for the Sound/Image Research centre and has been involved in the design and faciliation of short courses such as Spatial Audio Fundamentals and Creative Sound Design in Ableton Live.
Instagram - @bronamartin
