[ONLINE] Doctoral Colloquium (Music): Diego Quiroz

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Doctoral Colloquium: Diego Quiroz

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Gestural Control for 3D Audio & Input Devices

Immersive audio content has grown significantly in popularity and will be more accessible for consumers in the upcoming years. Traditionally, the rendering and reproduction of 3D audio for content production is done with standard mixing interfaces that pan the audio between two adjacent loudspeakers, but new input devices have been produced that operate with more degrees of freedom (DOF) and have added gestural capabilities that would allow for improved control over the 3D audio mixing environment. Studying user interfaces and interaction techniques that are better adapted to panning audio in 3D and audio spatialization is a relatively new topic, especially from an academic perspective. Although reproduction systems of 3D sound fields in high resolution have been extensively researched, very few gestural controllers for sound mixing have been proposed. This presentation will present a series of experiments that attempt to shed a light in this field of research and how the variables within an immersive audio mixing task interact with the user and the input devices used.

Diego Quiroz is a recording engineer, musician and teacher of music production and audio engineering, and immersive audio. He has recorded classical music records in Montreal, Canada with classical orchestras, jazz orchestras and numerous ensembles of baroque, contemporary and modern music. Graduated from the Master of Sound Recording at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and from Musical Synthesis major, Magna Cum Laude at Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA. He is a current PhD candidate in Sound Recording at McGill University with highly renowned professors such as George Massenburg, Richard King, Wieslaw Wosczcyk and Martha de Francisco. Diego has been involved in numerous AES conference papers since becoming a PhD candidate in subjects around immersive audio perceptual evaluation, height-channel formats perceptual evaluation, gestural control for audio, audio perception in VR/AR and Hi Resolution audio. Diego ́s thesis proposal encompasses input devices and gestural control for 3D audio production. Other interests include, ambisonics, binaural audio, VR/AR in audio.