'Reconfiguring the Landscape' is a three-year Norwegian Artistic Research Project hosted at the Norwegian Academy for Music in Oslo. The project investigates how 3-D electroacoustic composition and sound-art can evoke and provoke a new awareness of outdoor sound environments. Outdoor sound environments have penetrated the materials and structures of music, sound-art, installations and architectural design. More recently our technology to capture, analyse and synthesise 3-D sound as space allows us to address the full dimensionality of the sonic landscape.
The most important aspect of the project concerns practical artistic work. This work contains a number of modules that address installation-art, composition, noise abatement and environmental design. Much of this work will include capturing site-specific 3-D sound and other kinds of environmental sensing, and will then artistically, scientifically and technologically investigate the material and its meaning. The results will be projected in both indoor and outdoor spaces through a series of iterations that address public response, design, practice and theory
The project includes an international team of researchers, who you can find out more about in the Research Catalogue.
Here are links to examples of some of Natasha Barrett's own work documenting audio mockups as well as live site specific indoor and outdoor sound experiments in summer and winter.
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Inversion-1: source ambisonics for 170-beamforming loudspeaker at NMH
Ambisonics 3D in YouTube. Binaural. Listen on headphones.
Natasha Barrett, 2020.
Also see Inversion-1: 170 loudspeaker at NMH live.
Outdoor soundscape enhancement. Day 1, experiment 1. Binaural audio documentation.
This video documents the first of four experiments in outdoor soundscape enhancement at Majorstuen in Oslo (see the map in the video).
Outdoor soundscape enhancement. Day 2, experiment 1. Binaural audio documentation.
This video documents the third of four experiments in outdoor soundscape enhancement at Majorstuen in Oslo (see the map in the video).
YouTube: Eigenmike® Recording Sound Landscape Development 5
Ambisonics 3D in YouTube. Binaural. Listen on headphones.
Natasha Barrett, 2019
YouTube: Eigenmike® Recording Sound Landscape Development 1
Ambisonics 3D in YouTube. Binaural. Listen on headphones.
Natasha Barrett, 2019
YouTube: Hvalstad Forest, double SPS200 ambisonics Sound Landscape Development 3 Ambisonics 3D in YouTube. Binaural. Listen on headphones. Natasha Barrett, 2020.
'Talking Trees' (version for headphones only!)
YouTube: EigenMike® Recording and Sound Landscape Development 2, Vest Telemark, Norway
Ambisonics 3D in YouTube. Binaural. Listen on headphones.
Natasha Barrett, 2020.
YouTube: EigenMike® Recording and Sound Landscape Development 4, Hvalstad, Norway.
Ambisonics 3D in YouTube. Binaural. Listen on headphones.
Natasha Barrett, 2020.
Sansing i Strandsona (remote sensing in the tidal zone).
Short documentation video from the beach pavilion at Hvervenbukta, Oslo, summer of 2020.
Preview the full composition in normal stereo
Youtube: Inversion-1: 170 loudspeaker at NMH live.
Ambisonics 3D in YouTube. Binaural. Listen on headphones.
Natasha Barrett, 2020.
Also see Inversion-1: source ambisonics for 170-beamforming loudspeaker at NMH
Outdoor soundscape enhancement. Day 1, experiment 2. 360 audio and video documentation
This video documents the second of four experiments in outdoor soundscape enhancement at Majorstuen in Oslo (see the map in the video).
NOTE: View in Chrome! (Firefox and Safari not functioning)
Outdoor soundscape enhancement. Day 2, experiment 2. Binaural audio documentation.
This video documents the forth of four experiments in outdoor soundscape enhancement at Majorstuen in Oslo (see the map in the video).