The Flying Baby

More sound compositions, from 1998 to 2005.

"Au-delà des apparences" on DEGEM web radio

The top 5 works as selected by the jury for this year's Jeu de temps / Times Play (JTTP) project and all works from the CD Cache 2006 are on the DEGEM WebRadio programme through mid-January 2008.

Cache 2006 is the CD component of the CEC's larger annual JTTP project, and features the top 10 works as selected by the jury for the 2006 edition of JTTP. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektroakustische Musik (DEGEM) is Germany's national association for electroacoustics.



The programme can be heard online at http://biblio.zkm.de/DegemWebradio/programm.htm. We're on "Programm A", Studioforum.

CACHE 2006
Jean-Michel Dumas -- Gris (étude narrative #2) (2005)
Philippe-Aubert Gauthier -- Au-delà des apparences (2005)
Priscille Gendron -- Camille (2005-2006) ** JTTP 1st place
Myriam Hamer-Lavoie -- Et pluie souffle... (2005) ** JTTP 5th place
Adis Husejnagic -- Transfigured (2006)
Yota Kobayashi -- Reminiscence (2006) ** JTTP 3rd place
Stefan Kozminchuk -- The mind is the voice (2006) ** JTTP 4th place
Etienne Legast -- Colonies (2005)
Raphaël Néron B. -- Toons (2005) ** JTTP 2nd place
Joshua Zubot -- Land of the Bowl (2006)

SNRatio i, ii, iii and iv on Jamendo

Here is some sound compositions from 2001. They were originally created for "Excavation sonore", a radio show by Avatar (Québec City, Canada).

Noïzefer CWU performance :: November 24th, 2007

Noïzefer CWU will perform at "Atelier Silex", Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada on November 24th. It should be free!

Noïzefer CWU performance for Art Nomade

We are back from Chicoutimi were Noïzefer CWU given a new performance within the performance festival "Art Nomade". The place, the ambiance and the event were great, a total sucess. Three nights of performance by: Jan Swindzinkski, Terrance Houle, Sara Létourneau, Ryan Sims, Stéphane Bouliane, Michelle Rhéaume, Paul Hurley, Irma Optimist, Francis Arguin, Arti Grabowski and Noïzefer. We performed on November 2nd at the old "pulperie de Chicoutimi" (Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada).

Here is some pictures.


Look for our next performance in Trois-Rivières.

Noïzefer CWU first album on MySpace

You can download the first four pieces of the first Noïzefer CWU full-length album (13 pieces, more than an hour of music and noise!): www.myspace.com/noizefer




Or listen to it on Jamendo!

 

A complete publication on AWFS (Adaptive Wave Field Synthesis) :: AES 123rd Convention in NY :: October 2007

A complete paper and conference dedicated to AWFS will be presented at the 123rd Audio Engineering Convention in NY. We received the best student paper award.

More infos ... see the AES web pages

Or the technical program ...

Some pictures ...

Ph.D. thesis defence of Philippe-Aubert Gauthier

English follows, sorry for cross posting.

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Bonjour,

Vous êtes invité à la soutenance de thèse de doctorat en génie mécanique de Philippe-Aubert Gauthier concernant la synthèse de champs sonores adaptative le 11 septembre 2007 à 9:00 (Université de Sherbrooke, A1-228, Faculté d'éducation). La soutenance se déroulera en français et la période de questions pourra mélanger l'anglais et le français.

La thèse en question concerne la reproduction de champs acoustiques par «wave field synthesis» (WFS) et la compensation des erreurs de reproduction par «adaptive wave field synthesis» (AWFS), soit l'originalité de la thèse. Une part de la présentation sera dédiée aux techniques de spatialisation sonore et une autre concerne les limites de la WFS et des exemples théoriques et pratiques d'AWFS. La présentation touche différentes disciplines : acoustique physique, acoustique des salles, traitement du signal numérique, électroacoustique appliquée, etc. Des efforts sont faits pour conserver une description générale lors de la soutenance et ainsi contribuer à la vulgarisation du travail effectué, la présentation se veut donc ouverte à un public plus large.

Le comité d'évaluation de thèse regroupe Alain Berry, Yann Pasco (Groupe d'Acoustique de l'Université de Sherbrooke, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology), Oliver Warusfel (IRCAM) and Emmanuel Friot (LMA, Marseille).

La soutenance sera effectuée par vidéoconférence entre Marseille (LMA) et Sherbrooke. La présentation, selon la tradition, doit tenir en 45 minutes. Ensuite, la période de questions peut s'étendre sur une heure ou deux. Lors des questions, la priorité va aux membres du jury. Par la suite, le jury se rencontre et émettra la décision finale quant à l'obtention du doctorat par le candidat Philippe-Aubert Gauthier.

Vers l'heure du diner un apéro (avec quelques bouchées) sera offert au laboratoire du GAUS (C1-2039) où il sera possible de profiter d'une démonstration du système de reproduction de champs sonores.

Pour plus d'informations : philippe_aubert_gauthier@hotmail.com

Pour obtenir une carte du campus avec l'indication du lieu de la soutenance :
pag-sound.blogspot.com

Le nombre de place est relativement limité par l'espace, veuillez m'informer si vous êtes intéressé.

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Hello,

You are invited to the defence of Philippe-Aubert Gauthier for Ph.D. in mechanical engineering on September 11th, 2007, 9:00 (University of Sherbrooke, A1-228, Faculty of education). The thesis concerns the adaptive synthesis of sound fields.

The defence will be presented in French and the period of questions will possibly involve English and French. The thesis relates to the reproduction of sound fields by "wave field synthesis" (WFS) and compensation of the reproduction errors by "adaptive wave field synthesis" (AWFS), that is the originality of the thesis.

A part of the presentation will be dedicated to the techniques of sound spatialization and another part presents the limits of WFS along with theoretical and practical examples of AWFS. The presentation touches various disciplines: physical acoustics, room acoustics, digital signal processing, applied electroacoustics, etc. Efforts will be made to preserve a general description and thus contribute to the popularization of the work. The presentation is thus opened to a larger audience.

The evaluation committee gathers: Alain Berry, Yann Pasco (Group of Acoustics of the University of Sherbrooke, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and
Technology), Oliver Warusfel (IRCAM) and Emmanuel Friot (LMA, Marseille). The defence will be "videoconferenced" between Marseille (LMA) and Sherbrooke. After the defence, an aperitif (with some food) will be offered in the GAUS laboratory. A demonstration of the system will also be presented in the laboratory (C1-2039).

For more information: philippe_aubert_gauthier@hotmail.com

To obtain a map of the campus with the indication of the place of defence: pag-sound.blogspot.com

Pure-Data Convention 2007 :: Montréal :: "Auditory Tactics"

From http://convention.puredata.org/

The PureData Convention '07 will bring together artists, developers and theoreticians who develop, use and reflect on PureData. It will acknowledge the broad range of artistic disciplines that make use of the software and will address questions of openness and accessibility. It will provide a theoretical context for the understanding of media art practices that engage in the aesthetics and politics of Free Open Source Software Culture.

The artists and researchers Philippe Pasquier and Philippe-Aubert Gauthier were invited in 2006 for a residency at Vidéographe to work on the creation of a sound installation for the PD Convention. The residency will start on June 21th until the show opening on August 21th, Concordia University.

"Auditory tactics" (preliminary title) will expose a public space to acoustic beams using compact loudspeaker arrays. PD will be used to control the system, steer the beams and create an interactive spatial sound composition with the public, the space and the system. Using voice sounds, this project is dedicated to the place of the voice, the mediated voice, on public spaces, private and public aural spheres.

See : auditorytactics.blogspot.com

Here is the installation (Concordia University, Québec, Canada) ...

Adaptive wave field synthesis

Next week, my thesis on adaptive wave field synthesis for sound field reproduction will be finished. Here is a picture of my spatial sound system in hemi-anechoic chamber.



For more infos: see my papers in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2005, 2006) and possibly some new in the next years.