"Physical Models in Action"
Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), Queen's University of Belfast
Friday 15 December 2006, 10am - 5pm.
This meeting will focus on physical modelling (and related topics, such as 'augmented acoustics'), and in particular on its use in practical/creative applications, such as performance, composition, sound synthesis, installations, sound projection, and computer games. The main objective is to create and stimulate a stronger interaction and exchange of ideas between engineers, scientists, musicians, artists, and listeners/users on this topic.
The planned schedule includes a concert (featuring works and performances that make use of physical models), a small number of invited talks, and a parallel demo/poster session, during which participants will demonstrate a variety of real-time and non-real-time systems in a large space. The research groups from the Aalborg University, University of Edinburgh, and Queen's Univeristy have already proposed various exciting contributions, including new controllers, models, implementations, collections of short sound examples and pieces, and augmented instruments. Suggestions for further demos are very welcome, and indeed encouraged.
Programme
The programme includes:
- * two invited presentations:
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- Stefan Bilbao
"Physical Modeling Sound Synthesis in Practice" - Stefania Serafin
"Physical Models for Interactive Applications"
- Stefan Bilbao
- * Live performance by MIAMI
- * One or two tape pieces, including:
- "The Wall Woodpeckers" (Ricardo Climent, 2005)
- * General discussion
- * Parallel demo/poster session, including:
- A new controller developed by students from Aalborg University
- A new controller for a virtual violin, modelled with novel block-based physical modelling techniques (Giovanni de Sanctis, Marco Foco)
- A real-time controlled physical model of a Catalan woodwind instrument (Josep Comajuncosas)
- A real-time Max/MSP multi-string model with percussive audio-driven control (Pedro Rebelo, Maarten van Walstijn)
- A real-time model of the prepared piano (ppiano~), developed by Stefan Bilbao and Thomas Resch, demonstrated by Stravos Didakis
- A real-time model of the vocal tract using a digital waveguide mesh (Damian Murphy)
Demos & Posters
All participants of the demo/poster session are asked to supply some form of 'poster' alongside their demonstration, which displays information about the system that they are demonstrating. This can vary from one A4 with some scriblings on it to a glossy A0 poster; i.e. no formal criteria are set.
Please also let m.vanwalstijn@qub.ac.uk know as soon as possible if you require any particular equipment.
There are still opportunities for further participants in the parallel demo/poster session. If you would like to demonstrate a system that involves physical modelling or a related method/technology, please contact m.vanwalstijn@qub.ac.uk as soon as possible.
Travel
There are two airports in and around Belfast:
- Belfast International (1/2 hr drive from Belfast)
http://www.belfastairport.com/en/ - Belfast City
http://www.belfastcityairport.com/home.asp
You can check on their websites what routes from UK and other destinataitons are provided, which includes Easyjet, Flybe, and Jet2. There are bus services from eihter airport to the Europabus Centre, which is 25 min walk from SARC in South Belfast.
Please see:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/TheUniversity/Location/Maps/MainCampus/
(Sonic Arts = 36) for travelling to SARC.
Address and Contact Information
Sonic Arts Research Centre
Cloreen Park (off Malone Road)
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland
Tel. +44 (0)28 90974829
http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/
Accommodation
Below is a list of Guest Houses and Hotels with rates, facilities etc close to QUB. The rooms vary in price according to availability, time of week e.g. weekday or weekend, numbers etc. All these Hotels/Guest Houses can be viewed and booked via http://www.smoothhound.co.uk/belfast. Bienvenue, Malone Lodge and Windermere will give 10% discount for quoting smooth hound's internet pages when booking.
There is also the option of using low-budget University accomodation: Queen’s Elms (the newwly built student accomodation centre close to SARC) provides rooms for visitors. Price = £15 a night. There are no ensuite rooms, kitchen & bathroom are shared. If you are interested then email me (m.vanwalstijn@qub.ac.uk) asap and I do the booking.
Hotels/Guest Houses (NOTE: prices might be out of date):
- Lisdara House, 3 Derryvolgie Ave, 90681549
Single £35-£45; Double/Twin £55-£65 per room. En suite available. - Bienvenue, 8 Sans Souci Park, 90668003
Single £25-£42; Double/Twin £45-£55 per room. En suite available. (5 bedrooms in total) - Pearl Court, 11 Malone Road, 90666145
Single £25-£35; Double/Twin £44-£52 per room. En suite available. (10 bedrooms) - Tara Lodge, 36 Cromwell Road, 90590900
Single £48-£60; Double/Twin £44-£52 per room. En suite available. (19 bedrooms) - Malone Lodge, 60 Eglantine Ave, 90388000
Single £59-£75; Double/Twin £79-£85 per room. All en suite. (51 bedrooms) - Windermere Guest House, 60 Wellington Park, 90662693
Single £24-£35; Double/Twin £34-£50 per room. En suite available (11 bedrooms) - Ash-rowan, 12 Windsor Ave, 90661758
Single £48-£66; Double/Twin £72-£86 per room. All en suite (5 rooms) - Dukes Hotel, 65-67 University St. 90236666
Single £50-£65; Double/Twin £55-70 per room. En suite available (20 room) - Renshaws, 75 University St, 90333366
Single £45-£55; Double/Twin £49-£55 per room. All en suite (22 rooms) - Wellington Park Hotel, 21 Malone Road, 90381111
Single £85-£97; Double/Twin £95-£110 per room. En suite available. - Blakely Manor Guest House, 67 Malone road BT9 6SB 90662987
£30 pp sharing £10 single supplement. Weekend rates available. 3 twin & 2 double en suite rooms. http://www.blakelymanor.co.uk
Expenses
There is a budget to cover travel expenses for all those who attend the meeting. Those based in the UK based are encouraged to fly in and out on the day, in order to avoid accommodation expenses (unless they are happy to cover this themselves). Please get in touch with m.vanwalstijn@qub.ac.uk if you think flying in and out on the day will not be possible; we will be able to cover some additional expenses for a limited number of cases.
Accommodation as well as travel expenses will be covered for all active participants (i.e. invited speakers, demonstrators, performers, etc). Normally we would cover one night only, in some cases a longer stay can be covered.