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Marcoussis and Orléans, France – October 2021

With today’s entertainment consumer hungry for rich, immersive experiences, immersive audio continues to become a viable and sought-after element in various production workflows. However, the prevalence of so many platforms and proprietary communication languages has been a stumbling block to widespread adoption of spatial audio, and a challenge to interoperability amongst production tools. Indeed, to quote an old tech industry joke, the nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them.

Now FLUX::Immersive, L-Acoustics, Radio France, and other major industry manufacturers have joined in an initiative to standardize Open Sound Control as a streaming protocol for interoperability among immersive audio systems.

The ITU BS.2076-2 Audio Definition Model (ADM) is a solution for the archiving and interoperability of immersive audio productions. ADM-OSC provides an implementation that follows the ITU standard, allowing to stream positioning information of audio objects in real-time using the Open Sound Control protocol.

Led by use cases from Radio-France, FLUX::Immersive and L-Acoustics have joined forces to initiate a common language to ease system integration within the production process.

“Since 2018, Radio France has been experimenting with object-oriented audio productions of electronic music concerts,” explains Hervé Déjardin, audio innovation project manager at Radio-France.

“These trials have highlighted the need for a common protocol between the different elements of the chain. The objective is to be able to address the metadata streams to different rendering engines without using translators.”

ADM-OSC offers a universal communication language among object-based audio software for live and post-production. A technical workgroup with industry peers has been created to advance on this proposal and collaborate on the parameters. This workgroup has received the support of multiple manufacturers and the ADM-OSC language is currently implemented in some audio software.

As Hugo Larin, FLUX:: Immersive Business Director, explains, “Few things are more of a roadblock than trying to build an integrated workflow that incorporates multiple manufacturers and getting stuck in a proprietary communication portal. We felt there was a need to adopt a common communication, a common grammar, between industry peers.”

With this in mind, FLUX::Immersive has added ADM-OSC as a supported input or output OSC communication option within its SPAT Revolution platform.

“We clearly hear in the field the challenges of integrating multiple object editors and or renderers delivering for various stream formats in a production,” Larin observes.

”Allowing for the selected tools of choice to interoperate in the environment of the day or at different stages of a project is one of the things that this audio object language can brilliantly achieve.”

Guillaume Le Nost, L-Acoustics Executive Director, Creative Technologies adds:
“As an industry, we need to nail down the immersive workflow to enable the next generation of productions. I am really glad to see that many pro audio manufacturers have reacted positively to our initiative, from Digital Audio Workstations to Broadcast systems. I am really looking forward to providing a super-strong ecosystem, where users can easily use several audio renderers at the same time, or easily move into post-production with ADM files at the center of their workflow. It is still early days for ADM-OSC, but users and manufacturers can already try an initial ADM-OSC implementation in our L-ISA Controller software.”

A GitHub repository with specifications and a testing tool can be found at:
https://github.com/immersive-audio-live/ADM-OSC

A panel discussion will take place at AES Fall Online 2021 on October 27th in the Immersive Audio program.
https://audioengineeringmonth2021.sched.com/event/ocEt

About FLUX:: Immersive
FLUX:: Immersive has established a reputation as a leader in the creation of audio processing software with the core idea to design inspiring technically innovative tools for sound engineers, with no compromise of the audio quality. The company has always been at the forefront of the development of software solutions for the professional audio industry, supporting multichannel processing, which for over a decade has been frequently used for multichannel surround recording, movie post-production, immersive live & installation sound, and in various other applications.

About SPAT Revolution
SPAT Revolution is a state-of-the-art real-time immersive audio mix engine, redefining the art of object-oriented and perceptual mixing making it possible to intuitively position audio sources in space, letting the acoustic signature of the room build the desired depth, independently from the output format. Designed to integrate into virtually any workflow, and with full automation of the spatialization parameters, SPAT Revolution offers a wide range of possibilities, empowering artists, sound designers and sound-engineers virtually unlimited possibilities to design, create and mix an outstanding immersive experience

SPAT Revolution is the result of a successful partnership between FLUX:: Immersive and the French research institute Ircam, created to bring the vast research performed at Ircam available to the market.

About L-Acoustics
Founded in 1984 near Paris, France, L-Acoustics is the market leader in professional sound reinforcement technologies. With over 550 team members worldwide and offices in Paris, London, Singapore, Los Angeles, and New York, L-Acoustics is present in over 80 countries via our network of Certified Providers. Focused on solutions that elevate the audience experience, more than 20% of L-Acoustics’ talent is devoted to R&D in the areas of acoustics, applications, mechanics, electronics, signal processing, and software development. In recognition of creating innovative professional sound technology, L-Acoustics was named as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2020.

Recognized for pioneering the line source array, L-Acoustics continues to shape the future of the professional audio industry with L-ISA Immersive Hyperreal Sound technology, a multidimensional, object-based approach to designing, mixing, and processing sound that results in extremely natural and intelligible audio, and a more vibrant, authentic connection between artists and their fans. Now also available for exceptional private sound spaces with L-Acoustics Creations designs.

L-Acoustics technologies can be heard in places like the Hollywood Bowl, Dickies Arena, Allianz Arena, home of Bayern Munich, or the Philharmonie de Paris, as well as the world’s top-grossing festivals, and on tour with world-class artists such as Mark Knopfler, Aerosmith, and P!NK.

About Ircam
Ircam, Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music, is one of the world’s leading public research institutes in the fields of musical expression, science of music, sound and acoustics. The institute has for the last decades made significant importance to the world of avant-garde and electro-acoustical art music, with its groundbreaking scientific and technological innovations including numerous concepts for electronic music and audio processing.

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Chalezeule and Orléans, France – October 2021

Espace Concept, a key player in innovation within the field of sound and digital audio for 20 years, is now offering the best of immersive sound in an in-house integrated software and hardware solution: ZEPHYR, powered by FLUX :: IMMERSIVE SPAT Revolution

“We are proud to become certified integrators in France for the spatialization and analysis technologies from FLUX:: Immersive”, declares Alain Roy, founder and sound engineer at Espace Concept.

Based on FLUX:: IMMERSIVE’s SPAT Revolution technology, and the expertise of the integrator Espace Concept, the company offers an immersive solution that guarantees the audience a unique hearing and sensory experience.

Today, everything is converging towards immersive and Alain Roy has anticipated it well. With ZEPHYR audio system the company offers a complete solution for immersive sound, with focus on concerts and theater performances. When talking about immersive sound, it’s virtually impossible to find a turnkey solution bringing together hardware, software and technical expertise .

In short, ZEPHYR offers a complete solution for immersive audio, adaptable to all forms of venues and applications (shows, concerts, performances, recordings, etc.), as well as for all other applications in the pro audio industry.

On the technical side, ZEPHYR offers a 100% personalized hardware configuration according to requirements. The solution is based on two dedicated softwares for live audio; SPAT Revolution for managing the immersive audio part, and FLUX:: Analyzer for the configuration of the sound system.

Personalized support covers several areas relating to creation and immersive broadcasting; sound design, acoustic staging, pure immersion, OSC (Open Sound Control for parameter automation), as well as for systems allowing redundancy when required.

ZEPHYR took its first steps into the French market in September 2021. The Fontaine theater in Paris was the first room equipped with the ZEPHYR immersive solution, in a production named; “Dans la cour des grands”, with a soundtrack by Richard Gotainer and Michaël Lapie.

https://www.espaceconcept.eu/

About ESPACE CONCEPT
Espace Concept, which has for several years contributed to the democratization of immersive sound, has become a recognized player in its field. Its research and development center has participated in numerous services where the objective was to improve, to complete the sensation of listening by creating a form of sound immersion … Today, Espace Concept offers a new dimension of immersive sound with ZEPHYR available for rental, service or for sale.

About FLUX:: Immersive
FLUX:: Immersive has established a reputation as a leader in the creation of audio processing software with the core idea to design inspiring technically innovative tools for sound engineers, with no compromise of the audio quality. The company has always been at the forefront of the development of software solutions for the professional audio industry, supporting multichannel processing, which for over a decade has been frequently used for multichannel surround recording, movie post-production, immersive live & installation sound, and in various other applications.

About SPAT Revolution
SPAT Revolution is a state-of-the-art real-time immersive audio mix engine, redefining the art of object-oriented and perceptual mixing making it possible to intuitively position audio sources in space, letting the acoustic signature of the room build the desired depth, independently from the output format. Designed to integrate into virtually any workflow, and with full automation of the spatialization parameters, SPAT Revolution offers a wide range of possibilities, empowering artists, sound designers and sound-engineers virtually unlimited possibilities to design, create and mix an outstanding immersive experience

SPAT Revolution is the result of a successful partnership between FLUX:: Immersive and the French research institute Ircam, created to bring the vast research performed at Ircam available to the market.

About Ircam
Ircam, Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music, is one of the world’s leading public research institutes in the fields of musical expression, science of music, sound and acoustics. The institute has for the last decades made significant importance to the world of avant-garde and electro-acoustical art music, with its groundbreaking scientific and technological innovations including numerous concepts for electronic music and audio processing.

Photo credit: Thomas JACQUOT
Context: The photo is from a performance by Jordi Savall orchestra at “Les salines royales d’Arc-et-Senans”, in France, August 28th.

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Orléans, France – October 2021

Bertrand Allaume joins FLUX:: Immersive where he will work on the development of the FLUX:: Immersive business and reseller network on the French and European markets.

Bertrand has a solid foundation and experience in the fields of Pro Audio and MI, and is a well known name in the French audio industry where he’s collaborated with several of the main actors including Apple, SCV Hitech, Audio-Technica, and has ensured the development of numerous brands.

“The explosion of immersive audio has opened a lot of doors for us, our classic multichannel processing tools and our spatialisation software engine are now in high demand. We are looking at growing the network of qualified partners to support the growth and fulfil this demand”; states Hugo Larin, Business Director of FLUX:: Immersive.

Bertrand Allaume explains:

“It is a real pleasure for me to join the FLUX:: team. I’ve been a user and a big fan of their plugins and software for a very long time! And as of the last few years, I’ve been interested in different aspects of immersive sound, it feels completely natural that this collaboration with FLUX:: is taking place. A great challenge to strengthen FLUX::’s position as a major player in the field of immersive sound.”

Hugo Larin says: “We’re very pleased to have Bertrand join our effort in France. He’s a completely natural fit to our team. Beyond being a great musician and an experienced audio engineer, Bertrand is a man of action!”

About FLUX:: Immersive
FLUX:: Immersive has established a reputation as a leader in the creation of audio processing software with the core idea to design inspiring technically innovative tools for sound engineers, with no compromise of the audio quality. The company has always been in the forefront of the development of software solutions for the professional audio industry, supporting multichannel processing, which for over a decade has been frequently used for multichannel surround recording, movie post-production, immersive live & installation sound, and in various other applications.

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Orleans, France – May 2021

FLUX: : Immersive à récemment présenté une série d’ateliers sur les concepts de l’audio spatialisé et sur le déploiement de SPAT Revolution, en collaboration avec le centre de formation professionnelle agréé par l’AFDAS, Whiti Audio,

Les ateliers, ouverts aux concepteurs sonores, ingénieurs du son et à toutes personnes intéressées par l’audio multicanal, offrent une étude détaillée du mixage perceptif et orienté objet, explorant des techniques de création sonores immersives avancées. L’objectif est d’approfondir les connaissances et la compréhension des participants sur les technologies audio 3D, notamment HOA, WFS, binaurales et autres, ainsi que sur la perception spatiale auditive, l’acoustique des salles et le traitement de la réverbération.

Commençant par un aperçu historique de la production audio spatialisée, les ateliers couvrent la perception sonore et les techniques de spatialisation avancées, ainsi que la simulation d’acoustique et la gestion des espaces virtuels au sein de l’architecture de l’IRCAM, les formats de rendu orienté canal et scène et les méthodologies de positionnement et de panoramique.

Des modules supplémentaires présentent SPAT Revolution et les méthodes de production associées, allant de l’utilisation d’un unique ordinateur à des systèmes proposant l’utilisation de stations de travail différentes pour la lecture de l’audio et pour sa spatialisation. Des exercices pratiques permettent aux participants d’écouter le moteur orienté objet dans différents formats, comme le binaural et sur différents arrangements de haut parleurs. Enfin, les cours comprennent une étude approfondie des outils d’intégration tiers, des méthodes de travail avec une STAN pour le séquençage de l’audio aux contrôleurs utilisant l’Open Sound Control (OSC).

“Nous vivons littéralement un changement de paradigme, impliquant une nouvelle approche du mixage qui immerge nos spectateurs et apportent un nouveau sens de profondeur”, a fait remarquer Hugo Larin, directeur du développement commercial de FLUX: : Immersive.

“Aider notre communauté professionnelle à comprendre ces nouveaux outils et à se sentir à l’aise avec ceux-ci est la clé de leur mise en œuvre. Le son immersif est souvent perçu comme un outil élitiste et complexe à déployer, alors qu’il est en réalité totalement accessible: les outils sont déjà là et faciles à utiliser. Pour beaucoup, une fois qu’ils l’ont essayé, il n’y a pas de retour en arrière”.

“La connaissance, c’est le pouvoir, et, un élément clé dans l’adoption de l’audio immersif est la connaissance”, conclut M. Larin. “Chez FLUX: : Immersive, nous travaillons sans relâche pour apporter cette connaissance aux professionnels de l’audio du monde entier.”

La formation SPAT Revolution est disponible en partenariat avec les centres de formation et d’enseignement, et propose aux participants de se plonger dans le monde du mixage objet et perceptif pour ainsi savoir comment mettre en place et déployer des solutions sonoressonore spatialisées en utilisant SPAT Revolution.

Pour plus d’informations, visitez le site:
https://www.flux.audio/training-and-workshops/

À propos de SPAT Revolution
Spat Revolution est le fruit d’années de recherche de l’équipe Espaces acoustiques et cognitifs de l’Ircam, combinée à l’expertise en matière de produits innovants du créateur français de logiciels pro-audio FLUX::Software Engineering.

A propos de FLUX::
FLUX: : a acquis une réputation bien méritée de leader dans la conception de plug-ins audio. Choisi par les studios d’enregistrement, les studios de cinéma et les diffuseurs de radio et de télévision les plus prestigieux du monde, FLUX: : a su rester à l’avant-garde du développement de solutions permettant aux professionnels de l’audio d’obtenir des résultats impeccables.

Formations à venir chez Whiti Formation

Coût : 1680 Euro HT. Soutenu par : Afdas, Uniformation, pôle emploi…

3 au 7 mai 2021 à Orléans (COMPLET)

28 juin au 2 juillet 2021 à Paris / RegieTek

(Quelques places encore, date limite d’inscription 27 Mai)

25 au 29 octobre 2021 à Orléans (date limite d’inscription, 10 septembre)

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Orleans, France – May 2021

FLUX:: Immersive presents a series of workshops on Spatial Audio Concepts and SPAT Revolution deployment training in collaboration with AFDAS accredited professional training Center, Whiti Audio, in France.

The workshops, open to sound designers, audio engineers, and others with an interest in multi-channel audio, offer a detailed study in perceptual audio and object-based mixing, exploring advanced techniques for creating high-quality spatial audio productions. The goal is to deepen participants’ knowledge and understanding of 3D audio technologies including HOA, WFS, binaural, and more, as well as auditory spatial perception, room acoustics, and reverberation processing.

Beginning with a historical overview of spatial audio production, the workshops cover auditory perception and advanced spatial audio techniques including acoustic simulation and virtual spaces within the IRCAM architecture, channel-based and scene-based rendering formats, and position and direction panning methodologies.

Additional modules introduce SPAT Revolution and production workflows, ranging from a single computer to dedicated spatial rendering engines and playback workstations. Hands-on exercises enable attendees to audition object-based mixing in a binaural setting, as well as an overview of various speaker arrangements. The courses also include a deep dive into third-party integration tools, from DAW workflow and audio sequencing to show controllers and hardware using Open Sound Control (OSC).

“We are literally living through a paradigm shift, with new approaches to mixing that immerse our audiences and bring a new sense of depth via immersive audio cues,” remarked Hugo Larin, Business Director for FLUX:: Immersive.

“Helping our professional community to understand and feel comfortable with these new tools is key to their implementation. Immersive is often perceived as elite and complex to deploy, but in truth it is totally approachable, and the tools are already here and easy to use. For many, once they’ve tried it there is no turning back.”

“Knowledge is power, and a key element in the adoption of immersive audio is knowledge,” Larin concludes.

“At FLUX:: Immersive, we are working tirelessly to bring this knowledge to audio professionals around the world.”

The Spatial Audio Concepts and SPAT Revolution training is available for education and training centers, and offers participants to dive into the world of object-based and perceptual mixing, and how to set up and deploy Spatial Audio solutions using Spat Revolution.

For more information, visit:
https://www.flux.audio/training-and-workshops/

About SPAT Revolution
Spat Revolution is based on years of research by the Acoustic and Cognitive Spaces Team at the French audio research institute; Ircam, combined with the innovative product expertise of French pro-audio software creator FLUX::Software Engineering.

About FLUX::
FLUX:: has gained a well-deserved reputation as a leader in audio plug-in design. Chosen by the world’s most prestigious recording studios, film sound stages, and radio and TV broadcasters, FLUX:: attention to sonic quality and performance has kept the company at the forefront of developing solutions for audio professionals to deliver impeccable results.

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Paris, France – March 2021

Alors que les performances audio immersives connaissent un nouvel essor en cette année de concerts virtuels, le producteur de musique électronique français Éléphantmat (l’alter-ego de l’artiste/producteur/ingénieur Mathieu Rossier) crée depuis plusieurs années des événements live en 3D sonore.

Décrivant sa musique comme “une techno organique et sans étiquette, à la frontière de la tribe, de la psyché et du prog”, Éléphantmat fait partie d’une poignée d’artistes qui se produisent intégralement en audio immersif.

Mathieu Rossier est également le fondateur du studio Des Sons Animés, lieu dédié à la spatialisation sonore sur 32 canaux, depuis lequel il anime des concerts immersifs en direct via sa page Facebook, en diffusant son écran Ableton Live et sa prestation musicale.

“Des Sons Animés” est l’un des tout premiers studios privés en France à utiliser la synthèse par champs d’ondes (WFS) dans des applications musicales en direct. Le studio est conçu pour virtualiser un large éventail de configurations, y compris l’orienté objet, Dolby Atmos, 5.1, 7.1, MPEGH, ambisonic, Auro-3D et plus encore. L’un de ses outils indispensables est SPAT Revolution de FLUX: : Immersive.

La plupart des salles étant fermées, Des Sons Animés s’est associé au promoteur BNK pour créer CAPTURE, une série d’événements immersifs diffusés en direct et enregistrés dans des lieux du patrimoine national.

Pour l’un des récents événements CAPTURE, l’équipe Des Sons Animés de Rossier a installé un système immersif à 18 canaux dans le célèbre Grand Palais, où Éléphantmat a présenté en direct une performance spatialisée de deux heures et demie.

Des Sons Animés a enregistré le multipiste au format objet et a remixé la bande sonore en utilisant l’encodage binaural de SPAT Revolution. L’événement a été diffusé en direct sans public.

“Nous avons placé 16 haut-parleurs en cercle autour de moi à un diamètre de 8 mètres, avec deux subwoofers à l’extérieur du cercle”, explique Mathieu.

“Sans public, nous n’avons pas eu à nous préoccuper du traitement acoustique de l’espace, qui était bien trop grand pour être vraiment abordé. La distance entre les enceintes m’a permis de bénéficier d’un bon niveau de monitoring et de placement.”

” Pour le mixage du Grand Palais, SPAT m’a permis de créer une version binaurale qui était fidèle à l’intention spatiale de ma partition. J’ai pu gérer chaque objet individuellement et utiliser tous les outils internes pour optimiser le rendu ”

Éléphantmat a envoyé des séquences depuis Ableton Live directement aux objets de SPAT Revolution.

“Pour ce projet, je savais que je n’aurais pas d’élévation, puisque toutes les enceintes étaient montées au même niveau, j’ai donc utilisé une partition spatiale 3D, incluant l’élévation, que j’ai ensuite monitorée en 2D sur la configuration du Grand Palais.”

“SPAT nous a permis de créer deux flux de mixage, un pour le monitoring du studio et un pour le rendu binaural dédié à la diffusion en ligne. Une fois de retour au studio Des Sons Animés, il ne me restait plus qu’à envoyer la session enregistrée dans SPAT, avec l’audio et les données en OSC, et à utiliser le rendu binaural de SPAT pour en faire un mixage à deux canaux pour la vidéo.”

Partisan de longue date de l’audio immersif, Mathieu tient à partager cet art avec d’autres. En plus de ses propres performances, Des Sons Animé propose des programmes de résidence aux artistes qui souhaitent intégrer l’audio 3D dans leur travail.

“Pour moi, travailler en stéréo devient presque préhistorique une fois que vous avez composé et mixé en 3D”, explique-t-il.

“Une fois que l’on a goûté au monde du son spatialisé, il y a une addiction immédiate. On peut jouer avec l’espace, la profondeur et l’élévation, donner de la vie aux instruments, les animer avec des mouvements et des trajectoires. La partition gagne en intelligibilité et le potentiel créatif est considérablement augmenté. C’est fou – chaque artiste devrait pouvoir s’essayer à cette approche créative.”

Mathieu désigne SPAT Revolution comme un outil indispensable à la création de contenu immersif.

“SPAT est un outil idéal pour l’audio immersif. Il répond à tous les défis de mixage que je rencontre, et me permet de mixer dans de multiples configurations.”

“Pour le mixage du Grand Palais, SPAT m’a permis de créer une version binaurale qui était fidèle à l’intention spatiale de ma partition. J’ai pu gérer chaque objet individuellement et utiliser tous les outils internes pour optimiser le rendu. Le mixage respire, la définition spatiale est superbe et la dynamique est précisément préservée. Les résultats sont tout simplement merveilleux. Il n’existe aucun autre outil sur le marché capable de gérer ce type de projet avec ce degré de stabilité et de qualité sonore.”

Capture Grand Palais, Paris – Teaser Officiel

PHOTO CREDIT: Louis Lefranc

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SPAT Revolution Essential – Product Details

Orleans, France – April 2021

FLUX:: Immersive, pioneers in audio plug-in design, analysis and immersive technologies, is proud to announce the introduction of SPAT Revolution Essential – The power of SPAT Revolution for everyone.

With immersive audio creating a new standard for the entertainment industry, SPAT Revolution has become the leading platform for immersive audio production. With this in mind, FLUX:: Immersive has introduced SPAT Revolution Essential, a long-awaited solution for an accessible immersive creation tool, empowering the needs of artists, creators, sound-designers, sound-engineers, and the world of education, to design, create, and deliver an outstanding real-time immersive experience.

SPAT Revolution is a powerful, state-of-the-art real-time Immersive audio mix engine that is redefining the art of mixing with object-based and perceptual approaches, making it possible to intuitively position audio sources in spaces, real or virtual, and let the acoustic signature of the room build the desired depth, with full automation of the spatialization parameters independently from the output format.

SPAT Revolution Essential is a stand-alone software designed for real-time processing supporting standard ASIO and Core Audio audio interfaces, with low latency options, as well as networked audio, and includes standard audio plug-ins for communication with all major DAWs supporting AAX, AU and VST. Offering easy integration with virtually any DAW workflow with up to 96kHz sample rate, SPAT Revolution Essential includes integration templates for a wide range of third-party tools and workstations and supports OSC integration for external controllers.

SPAT Revolution Essential is available now, for perpetual and subscription licensing starting at $199. Educational licensing offers available with eligibility requirements, and a new license program containing license bundles specifically designed for educational institutions, class labs, etc. will also be available.

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Paris, France – March 2021

While immersive audio performances have taken on a new popularity during this year of virtual concerts, the French electronic music producer ÉléphantMat (the alter-ego of artist/producer/engineer Mathieu Rossier) has been creating live events in 3D audio for several years.

Describing his music as “organic and unlabeled techno, at the border of tribe, psyche, and prog,” ÉléphantMat is among only a handful of artists who perform fully in the 3D realm.

Rossier is also founder of Des Sons Animés, a 32-channel spatial sound studio where he hosts live 3D spatialized audio streams via his Facebook page, streaming his Ableton Live screen and his live performance.

Des Sons Animés is among the very first private studios in France to utilize wave field synthesis in live musical applications. The studio is designed to virtualize a wide range of configurations, including Object-based, Dolby Atmos, 5.1, 7.1, MPEGH, ambisonic, Auro-3D and more. One of his indispensable tools is SPAT Revolution from FLUX:: Immersive.

With most venues shut down, Des Sons Animés teamed with promotors BNK to create CAPTURE, a series of livestreamed immersive events performed and recorded in national heritage locations.

For one recent CAPTURE event, Rossier’s Des Sons Animés crew installed an 18-channel immersive system at the renowned Grand Palais, where ÉléphantMat presented a live two-hour spatialized performance piece. Des Sons Animés recorded the multitrack audio in object-based format, remixing the soundtrack using binaural encoding with SPAT Revolution. The event was streamed live without an audience,

“We placed 16 speakers in a circle around me at a diameter of 8 meters (26 feet), with two subwoofers outside the circle,” Rossier explains.

“Without an audience, we didn’t have to concern ourselves with acoustic treatment for the space, which was far too large to really address. The distance from the speakers provided me with a good level of monitoring and placement.”

” SPAT is an ideal tool for immersive audio. It responds to every mixing challenge I encounter and enables me to mix in multiple configurations. For the Grand Palais mix, SPAT allowed me to create a binaural version that was faithful to my score’s spatial intention. I was able to manage each object individually and use all the internal tools to optimize the rendering.”

Rossier sent sequences from Ableton Live directly to objects within SPAT Revolution.

“For this project, I knew I wouldn’t have any elevation since all the speakers were mounted at the same level, so I used a 3D spatial partition, including elevation, which I then monitored in 2D on the Grand Palais setup. SPAT enabled us to create two mixing streams, one for the studio monitoring and one for the stream’s binaural rendering. Once back in the Des Sons Animés studio, all I had to do was send the recorded session into SPAT, with audio and data in OSC, and use SPAT’s binaural rendering to lay it down to a two channel mix for the video.”

Long a proponent of immersive audio, Rossier is keen to share the art with others. In addition to Rossier’s own performances, Des Sons Animé offers residency programs to artists looking to integrate 3D audio into their work.

“For me, working in stereo becomes almost prehistoric once you have composed and mixed in 3D,” he offers.

“Once you’ve tasted the world of spatialized sound, there is an immediate addiction. One can play with space, depth, and elevation, add life to instruments, animate them with movement and trajectories. The score gains in intelligibility, and the creative potential is dramatically increased. It’s crazy – every artist should be able to try this creative approach.”

Rossier points to SPAT Revolution as an indispensable tool in immersive content creation.

“SPAT is an ideal tool for immersive audio. It responds to every mixing challenge I encounter and enables me to mix in multiple configurations. For the Grand Palais mix, SPAT allowed me to create a binaural version that was faithful to my score’s spatial intention. I was able to manage each object individually and use all the internal tools to optimize the rendering. The mix breathes, the spatial definition is superb, and the dynamics are precisely preserved. The results were simply wonderful. There is no other tool on the market that can manage this kind of project with this degree of stability and sonic quality.”

Capture Grand Palais, Paris – Official Teaser

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“Our purpose in designing Black Hole was to create an environment where people can both create and experience immersive audio content in ways that are not possible with more typical audio technologies presently available for home, headphones, or cinema.

Los Angeles, CA – March 2021

With immersive audio rapidly coming into its own as an innovative and in-demand medium, forward-thinking venues have been looking at ways to update their sound systems to accommodate multichannel playback and performance. But for Black Hole, immersive is not an add-on or an update – it’s the basis of the studio’s design.

“Despite the growing popularity of immersive audio, few venues exist that are purpose built for, and dedicated to the medium,” observes Micah Silver, founder of Black Hole and author of Figures in Air, a study on sound art and immersive audio.

Silver, who in his own words, has worked in immersive audio “since before I knew it was called immersive audio,” has designed the non-profit Black Hole cooperative as both a production facility and an exhibition space.

The room is outfitted with 16 Meyer Sound MM-4 loudspeakers, as well as Meyer and K-Array subs, with spatialization provided by SPAT Revolution. As Silver explains, SPAT Revolution has been key in helping to realize the room’s multi-use intent.

In addition to being a vehicle for productions created by Silver’s Polytope Agency, Black Hole functions as an exhibition space for artists to showcase their immersive sonic creations.

“One of the biggest challenges in immersive audio is that people create works that are uniquely configured and therefore not portable to any other space. For traditional venues, you need to set up a unique sound system for every performance, and that’s simply beyond the scope of most venues. Using SPAT Revolution, we’re able to easily and quickly configure the room for a wide range of immersive content.”

The ability to recreate and reconfigure the system with SPAT to accommodate an array of environments is equally important for artists working in the immersive genre.

“For artists who are doing this kind of work, there really is no rendering facility for it,” Silver offers.

“For sound designers, people creating works for exhibitions, theme parks, people working in acoustic design, we’ve created a space where they can realize their projects in a multi-channel environment. Someone could come here and mix in an ATMOS format, or in a 5.1 format, or a 16.1 format, and the space can adapt to their needs.“

While object-based mixing was one aspect that initially drew him to SPAT Revolution, Silver has found it to be an ideal platform for Black Hole.

“Our purpose in designing Black Hole was to create an environment where people can both create and experience immersive audio content in ways that are not possible with more typical audio technologies presently available for home, headphones, or cinema. Whether it’s composing, refining, and mixing an immersive sonic creation, or opening the space for an artist in residence to share their work, SPAT Revolution enables us to offer Black Hole as a facility for people in Southern California to share in immersive audio content.”

Micah Silver is the co-founder of audio scenography company Polytope Agency, and facilitates the listening space Black Hole in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Micah Silver – Black Hole

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