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THREE-DIMENSIONAL ACOUSTIC DISPLAYS IN A MUSEUM EMPLOYING WFS (WAVE FIELD SYNTHESIS)
AND HOA (HIGH ORDER AMBISONICS)
Angelo Farina1,2, Andrea Capra1,2, Paolo Martignon1,4, Simone Fontana1,2,3, Fons Adriaensen1, Paolo Galaverna1 and Dave Malham5
1 LAE - Laboratory for Acoustics and Electroacoustics, Parma, ITALY, HTTP://www.laegroup.org2 University of Parma, Industrial Engineering Dept., Parma, ITALY3 Ecole Nationale Superieure de Telecommunications (ENST), Paris, FRANCE4 University of Ferrara, LAV (Laboratory for Acoustics and Vibrations) Ferrara, ITALY5 Music Research Centre, Department of Music, The University of York, UK
ICSV14 Cairns • Australia 9-12 July, 2007
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The “Casa del Suono”
• It was born thanks to the cooperation of University of Parma, Comune of Parma, and with funds (approximately 2 million Euros) provided by Casa della Musica, Italian Governement and Cariparma Foundation
• The institutional goal is to display the famous Patanè’sCollection of vintage grammophones and radios, made available by CNIT (National Italian Consortium for Telecommunications)
• It is also a research lab about electroacoustics, equipped with the latest technologies for sound recording and reproduction employing a large number of channels
Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
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Topics
• Restoration of the S.Elisabetta church• Exhibit of Patanè’s Collection• Sound system for the exhibit• The SONIC CHANDELLIER, an innovative
planar WFS installation• 30-seats listening room (linear WFS)• The single-seat listening room (Binaural,
Ambisonics, Ambiophonics)
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The S.Elisabetta Church
A Baroque square church, with annexed rectangular chapel
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The S.Elisabetta Church
The main room is characterized by a very tall dome,with a lot of light thanks to many windows; in the center of the dome
the SONIC CHANDELLIER was installed
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The S.Elisabetta church
Before the restoration the building was in miserable conditions
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The S.Elisabetta church
Advanced restoration techniques revamped the original beauty
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The S.Elisabetta church
However, these restoration and consolidation techniques caused the acoustical behaviour of the church to worsten significantly, raising the reverberation time of the empty room from 2.3 s to more than 4.0 s
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The exhibit
6 circular niches in glass and steel, located in the 6 chapels of the main church, contain the major part of the “pieces” being exposed
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The exhibit
In the rear chapel, the two “surround” listening rooms are located
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Patanè’s Collection
• The collection was donated to CNIT by don Giuseppe Patanè, a priest and a collector, who employed his entire, long life for searching, purchasing and repairing valuable pieces.
• The collections contains approximately 400 pieces, ranging from the first phonographs, to Galen radios and extends to domestic and military radios of 20’s, 30’s, 40’s up to the first years after WWII. All pieces have been carefully maintained and serviced, most of them are working as new....
• There are also some particularly rare pieces, such as a cryptographic “Enigma” machine, employed by the German army for transmitting encoded informations during WWII.
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Patanè’s Collection• Some samples from the collection
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Patanè’s Collection• Some samples from the collection
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Patanè’s Collection• Some samples from the collection
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Touch screen
SpeakersSpeaker
Exhibit’s sound system
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Focus
SPEAKER
Absorbtion
Exhibit’s sound system
Two vertical 13-speakers line-arrays are employed. A DSP unit focalizes the sound downwards, where absorptive “sound traps” are located, for avoiding to spread the sound all around the church
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8 ch. DSP
8 ch. AMPPlayer
Listener
Delays ..
DSP control of line arrays
QSC 8-channels amplifier + BASIS DSP controller / Cobranet interface
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DSP control of line arrays
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The Niches
Niche n. 1 - PHONOGRAPHS AND GRAMMOPHONS1897-1923
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The Niches
Niche n. 2 - RADIO1921-1926
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The Niches
Niche n. 3 - RADIO and GRAMMOPHONS1926-1929
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The Niches
Niche n. 4 - RADIO1930-1935
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The Niches
Nicchia n. 5 - RADIO AND RADIOGRAMMOPHONS1935-1954
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The Niches
Nicchia n. 6 - RADIO, TURNTABLES, AMPLIFIERS, STEREO1950 - 2007
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Aλ
convexfocusconcaveAbsorption
1 kHz
2 kHz
500 Hz
The “Sonic Chandellier”
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Design and Construction
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Special 32 Ohm model by Ciare
Design and Construction
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Installation
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Hardware (computer, converters, amplifiers)
Computer Linux multiprocessor
Interface PCI->MADI (RME)
Interface MADI->ADAT (RME)
8 x converters ADAT 8ch. (Behringer)
8 x amplifiers 8ch. (QSC mod. 1608)
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Hardware (computer, converters, amplifiers)
64 output channels
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Software structure on Linux PC
“WFS Focus”Software(runtime controlled
multichannelprocessor)
to the feeding system...
Audio Application
+ WFS plug-in
Audio64 ch(MADI bus)
Audio Mono 1
OSC WFS GUI
OSC
MIDI or OSC
controller
External Audio
MIDI orOSC
AudioMono 2
Software
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MIDI or OSC“WFS Focus” structure
Software
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Listening rooms
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Listening rooms
• La sala bianca ospita sino a 30 ascoltatori, ed è dotata diun sistema surround planare tipo WFS (192 altoparlanti)
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30-seats room (“sala Bianca”)
• 176 loudspeakers are incorporated in the perimetralwalls, completely surrounding the audience at ear-height
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The WFS technology
• Wave Field Synthesis is a playback technique which makes use of linear loudspeaker arrays which are used for creating wavefrontsappearing to be radiated by a virtual source
• Concept: spatially sampling a wavefront
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WFS applications
• WFS can generate point sources or planar sources, and even point sources which appear to be inside the room, in the middle of the audience area
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Tecnology WFS @ IRCAM, IRT
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Synthesis of a virtual environment with WFS
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FREE Software for WFS
• The Linux program Wonder makes it possibile to generate WFS signals and to move in realtime the virtual source being synthesized
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Low-cost hardware for WFS• The cheaper solution is based on a PC containing three MADI interfaces
(64 ch. each), connected with a rack of low-cost converters (Behringer)
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Single-seat room (“sala Nera”)
• This room is equipped with 26 loudspeakers
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Single-seat room
• The walls are made by plywood, gypsum boards and perforated panels with polyesther fiber wool, providing good sound insulation and optimal control of reverberation
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Single-seat room
• The sound absorbing treatment, here simulated employing the Ramsete program, provides a value of T20 of 0.40 s at 125 Hz and even lower ar higher frequencies.
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Binaural (Stereo Dipole) method
• Playback is made on 2 loudspeakers located at +/- 10°, being fed through a digital cross-talk cancellation system
…
2
3
1
Original 2-channels recording of the signals coming from N sources
d1l
xr
xl
Cross-talk canceller
d1r
d2l
d2r
dNl
dNr
N
20°
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Binaural (Dual Stereo Dipole)
ProPro: :
3D sound reproduction3D sound reproductionCrossCross--talk cancellation talk cancellation filters also equalize filters also equalize perfectly loudspeaker perfectly loudspeaker and microphonesand microphones
ControContro: :
Poor low frequenciesPoor low frequenciesColouring outside the Colouring outside the ““sweet spotsweet spot””
Schematics
Subwoofer
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Ambisonics Method
Recording Processing Playback
Encoding
B-Format
Decoding
Speaker-feeds
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• The Soundfield (TM) microphone provides 4 signals: 1 omnidirectional (pressure, W) and 3 figure-of-8 (velocity, X, Y, Z)
Recording
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Recording Encoding Processing
X
Y
Z
W
Directional components: velocity
Omnidirectional component : pressure
Soundfield
microphone
Polar diagramsB-FORMAT
Decoding & Playback
Recording
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Recording Encoding Proccessing
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Decoding & Playback
Encoding
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Recording Encoding Processing Decoding & Playback
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Rotation
Tilt
Tumble
Processing
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Recording Encoding Processing Decoding & Playback
ZY
X
Speaker i-esimo
3D decoding 2D decoding
Decoding
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High Order Ambisonics (HOA)• As a complex time-domain waveform can be though as the sum of a number of
sinusoidal and cosinusoidal functions, so a complex spatial distribution around a given notional point can be expressed as the sum of a number of spherical harmonic functions
• When the signals corresponding to spherical harmonics up to 3° order are summed with proper gains, one obtains a “virtual microphone” having a directivity pattern which can be very complex and highly directive
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Spherical Harmonics
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3rd-order spherical microphone
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Software for Ambisonics processing
Linux - Jack: AmbiDeco decoder by Fons Adriansen (open source, free)
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Software for Ambisonics processing
Windows: VST plugins by Gerzonic, Dave Malham, Bruce Wiggins (freeware)
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Software for Ambisonics processing
Windows: Visual Virtual Microphone by David McGriffy (freeware)
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Low-cost hardware for HOA• Again, a PC with MADI interface is employed
Stereo-Dipoles
Am
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nics
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Binaural
Multicore PC
RME MADI interface
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Locations of loudspeakers
Horizontal Ambisonics octagonAmbisonics 3D cubeStandard StereoFrontal Stereo-Dipole Rear Stereo DipoleUpper Stereo Dipole
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Psychoacoustics research
• Musical Food: sound quality analysis of Barilla -Mulino Bianco crackers and bread substitutes
Fette Biscottate Classiche Spianelle
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Psychoacoustics research• Listening tests with compilation of sound quality
questionnaires
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Psychoacoustics research• Principal Component Analysis
and correlation among physical and perceptual paramaters
Sonoro
Silente
CrispyCrunchy
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• Definzione contenuti espositivi e coordinamento: Alessandro Rigolli (per l'Istituzione Casa della Musica)
• Progettazione allestimento espositivo: Dario Costi e Simona Melli architetti
• Realizzazione allestimento espositivo:– Leonardo Laboratorio di Costruzione S.n.c. via G. Giusti, 4/a Parma– Gruppo Fallani S.r.l. via Pialoi, 100 Marcon (Ve)– Tecno-fer S.r.l. v.le Basetti, 14 Parma
• Progettazione e realizzazione componente acustica (LAE):– AIDA srl via G. Sicuri, 60/a Parma– Genesis via Benedetta, 83 Parma– Audiolink via Monte Prinzera, 17 Parma
• Sistemi informatici: IT City S.p.A. via Traversetolo, 36/a Parma
• Cablaggio:– Albacom.Amps Telecomunicazioni S.p.A.– Guglielmo srl via Livatino 9 Reggio Emilia
Aet Parma Srl via Lelio Guidotti 15/A Parma
Thanks to:
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Thanks to:
• The design and construction of these sound systems have been possible thanks to:
Laboratory of Acoustics and Elettroacoustics (LAE)
www.laegroup.org
Parma