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The 2D visual and mono audio example clip of full installation, for practice promotion only.

The final images of the experimental room that was pitched for the public, students, adults, mentors and externals.

The projectors were made use of in both rooms, obviously on a larger scale for the installation in the TV studio but a live feed was also used to expand the visual experience of the main experimental prototype.

With regards to our set, we bounced out a 5.1 audio file and imported it into the bounced visual animation .mov file and played as one file on loop and perfectly seamless every time.

Also very briefly in the shots are the moments that we are recording the installation through a 3D full HD camera.

The working prototypes, toward the end of this week the most important prototypes were only displayed to signify the comings of the experimental side of the project, between the transition of two rooms it is quite difficult to constitute a proficient presentation with the short time allocated. As most people only had a corner of a room and we as a group took on the bearings of a much more challenging project.

Mostly the mediums of water and salt were focused in implementing the Cymatic change with driven frequencies.

Speakers of different size, range and function were varied in order to incapsulate a variety of results. As time and sound sourced equipment like amplifiers were in the bare side, I had to plan for us to use the full potential effectively with what was available. The main computer software that was reenacting the generating of tones, was Max MSP. Where a patch was made up by us to produce the generation of a typical oscillator. This software patch was outputted through two audio outs of the laptop, into two separate Amps in order to link up as many experiments as possible with the sweep of my methods.

This was an excellent way for me to trigger as each speaker kicked In at different frequency ranges allowing the experiments to be seen together and at different times. This was a very effective way of performing the study of Cymatics.

The televisions are what visually represented the effects of the experiments that may not be witnessed with the naked eye, especially the water hose experiment. And the other TV was to second screen the laptop for easier experiencing of the methods.

Also the Tonoscopes were designed for individual spectators to reenact the tones generated, as such from the overtones produced by their own vocal box. The 5.1 system was used but very temperamentally. This was the raising concerns of this room, that everything was sketchy as relevant audio equipment was not available but my own supply.

The set up solution of room two, a discussion of each prototype will be explained following this post. As there are two monitors surrounding the main middle experiment known as the Chladni Plate from the power of frequencies salt becomes a work of geometrical art know as Cymatics.

The first day of the week back from the May bank holiday, being embraced by the preparation of the experimental workshop room R103 aka visual studio. All the gear had been supplied solely by myself from LED drapes, to LED fixtures, wires, stands, audio equipment and experimental prototypes. My van transported these goods to make this all happen.

The final strand, FYP, exhibitions and Experimental Room

As this course comes to an end, the final hurdle of remaining professional to present the finished items of our projects, for us two rooms have compressed the outsource of our FYP. Images and solutions will be followed explaining the final appearance of our exhibition week.

An idea was thought over the weekend, that the 4th compositional part needed a new arrangement for African piece, so we cought up with a musician and pieced together some new arrangement to blend the transition of electroacoustics and cultural music.

4 mic up mix through our DAW Session, for the Djembe and congas. Shure SM 58, two pencils and a Rode large diaphragm, which produced quite a good sound considering the natural reverb of the room.

This alteration will be chopped and mixed Tuesday the 28th, to produce the final cut and by Wednesday 29th full 5.1 mix and master will be completed of audio for FYP.

So, as this year comes to a dead end. After four years in the place this is the final strand, two weeks before the FYP exhibition and when it all comes to an end. This week I am going to discuss the processes and techniques in 5.1 mixing for the audio of this project. This involves a DAW you are familiar with and has enabled 5.1 panning options and plugins. This particular surround panner V5 above is used in Cubase 8 professional, and what makes all the parameters and knobs work to full effect is mapping those controls to quick controls on each audio track thus by a physical knob assigned on a MIDI controller. For this particular project this plugin was mapped to 127 valued knobs on a X-Station 25 by Novation which was a really nifty piece of kit for the 5.1 mixing job. Simply by assigning audio tracks you wish to pan to write, allows automation to be recorded in to what features you have used.

How the panner works accordingly, as you can see the grid with three dots, yellow, transparent and red. These are what indicate where the sound is going to with the speakers at each corner of grid and centre to visibly show what you are hearing through the mix. Seeing what happens in the grid is the easier part, but editing the recorded automation is quite difficult as the marker points and curves have no other way of relating the sound in position, up can mean down and down could mean right and so on, making the process of editing the 5.1 mix incredibly difficult and time consuming.

#5.1 mixing #Cubase #FYP #Audio

A snap real of the animation set, visuals used for introduction of exhibition.

Day of last pool 16th of April, view of control room that we routed and the set. We were very happy with the result of the exhibition test but alterations with speaker position will be implemented due to slight interference of visual set. Due to projector circumstances this will also enhance the quality of the visual set as the further you sit from it the better the quality.

Clean set before pool session tomorrow, last graded session to exhibit a sample of our final artefact. 5.1 audio with 3D mapping projection! A really impressive set, to embrace our participants. Routing session also took place along with this TV studio clear out, the routing session involved setting up the audio system as usual but instead of sitting in the mixer spot we had to position ourselves for when displaying this installation away from this room, into the control room. This was achieved by using the wall box and reversing the signal to be outputted from monitor room to studio room into where each speaker input was, this leads are all nearly gaff taped for safety and security of the installations, as this room is pretty much our groups room till needs be. This also involved a series of audio connection adapters and re challenging in order for the routing to be established. For the making of video the go pro camera has captured more footage to be used.

Unfortunately a replan of the table is to be reconfigured due to thickness of glass restricting results from experiment. These speakers were ripped off and individually tested with multiple 5.1 encoded songs which had significant display results!