This year the Royal Music Association Annual Conference took place in Manchester (11-13 Sept 2019) hosted by the Royal Northern College of Music and The University of Manchester. For this occasion, I received a commission to create a sound-walk for RMA participants exploring some of the history and urban features of the University’s campus. This was a great opportunity to demonstrate the new SonicMaps V2 platform for Locative Audio which is now in a beta stage and will be released in coming weeks with a who
On October 25th, I had the opportunity to demonstrate Maia’s AR-VR synchronization feature at the CCRMA Stage. For this purpose, we spent the first day of our visit 3D-modelling the concert space and the multichannel speaker array so it could be explored in a Unity VR instance while serving as a spatial map to position content in the parallel AR experience.
MAIA is a mixed reality simulation framework designed to materialise a digital overlay of creative ideas in synchronised trans-real environments. It has been proposed as an extension to the author’s previous research on Locative Audio (SonicMaps).