Southampton Sound Fest
2020 was designated as the International Year of Sound (IYS) by the International Commission for Acoustics but due to the current pandemic, celebrations of the IYS 2020 have been extended into the year 2021.
To give you a flavour for what the IYS is all about, we are bringing you the Southampton Sound Festival, a feature we launched earlier this year for the Southampton Science and Engineering Festival (SOTSEF), where to learn, explore, experience and find out more about the world of Sound.
Just choose a bubble to start exploring this amazing world with researchers and artists from the Music Department at the University of Southampton and the Institute of Sound and Vibration (ISVR).
Vegetable Orchestra: Making Music From A Carrot
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They say not to play with your food but surely it's ok if it's for science!
Watch and learn how to make your own instrument out of a carrot - try yourself at home and send in photos and videos!
Wind instruments make different pitches by the player changing the effective length of the pipe. Instruments such as an organ, wind chimes or a xylophone have keys, or pipes, of different lengths to create different notes.
You can either make a carrot with a single note or drill holes to be able to play different ones.
Don't forget to tweet us @ISVRsouthampton, with your photos and videos of carrot whistles in action and include #HumanWorlds to be part of the digital science festival and the International Year of Sound #IYS2020 #YearOfSound .
You can find us on YouTube and Twitter, search 'ISVRsouthampton'.
Vegetable Orchestra: Making Music From A Carrot
Waves Of... Music, Sound And Spatialisation Through Virtual Reality
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Flashing ImagesGrab your smartphone, headphones and your VR headset and experience the world premiere of an immersive, luminescent ride through a virtual 3D electronic music performance.
Human beings have both innate biological and learned cultural reactions to the sound of their environment, and to sounds in their environment - Dr Drew Crawford's research foregrounds these profound responses in his composition practice by working with music and sound in relation to the space(s) in which they are experienced.
Waves of... was originally composed for concert performance, a piece where the performers moved around the stage in a choreography of spatialised sound. Partly as a response to the COVID-19 restrictions on performance, the piece has been reimagined as a virtual reality experience where you can be inside the performance space, amplifying the affective spatial aspects of the piece impossible in real life.
* The VR experience is available for Android in the Downloads section. Instructions on how to install the programme in Android are available in the Videos section below.
* The team wanted to make an iOS version of Waves of... available publicly but that hasn't been possible at this time. If you have a Mac you could experience Waves of... on your computer, minus the VR headset by downloading File 2
Translating the piece to a virtual environment using the popular game engine Unity represents the first experiments working as part of a team with colleagues from the Winchester School of Art, James Stallwood (Teaching Fellow, Games Design and Art) and MA Communication Design student Andreea Ogledean, exploring how to tackle the problem of creating a believable hyperreality using Unity's audio capabilities.
** Hands-on Humanities Day Goes Digital **
Finally, do not miss a final video premiere and live Q&A session with Dr Drew Crawford, James Stallwood and Andreea Ogledean on Saturday 21st November for Hands-on Humanities Day Goes Digital.
The event will stream live on YouTube but please don't forget to book your ticket on Eventbrite!
