50% Seminar of Hans Lindetorp
Interactive Sound and Music Production
We invite you to the 50% PhD seminar of Hans Lindetorp, titled "Interactive Sound and Music Production".
Tid: Ti 2022-04-26 kl 15.00 - 17.00
Plats: Hybrid: Online and in KMH, Room 1D221
Videolänk: Zoom link
Medverkande: Hans Lindetorp
Title: Interactive Sound and Music Production
Abstract:
Interactive media has become one of the most important forms for entertainment and education over the last decades and sound and music play a big role in those formats including music for games and interactive movies. Contrary to the traditional channels for producing and distributing music, interactive media lack standardized formats and concepts for how it should be implemented.
Studies have indicated that most music producers find the task quite hard and tend to drop artistic ambitions when the technical obstacles like difficult programming or tedious work are too many. My research aims at finding technical solutions, useful terminology and efficient processes for producing sound and music for interactive media that help the producer to stay focused on the artistic aspects of a production. The strategy is to run an iterative process integrated in the education at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm where we design, prototype and evaluate technology for interactive sound and music.
The work so far has resulted in a descriptive language called WebAudioXML (waxml) that makes it possible to realize an artistic vision in an online interactive sound and music applications without the need to learn any programming language. The result from the studies so far has been very promising and indicates a potential for a future standard like waxml. The student feedback also highlights areas for improvements and further development that will be the basis for future work aiming at inclusive technology accessible for everyone.
Bio:
Hans Lindetorp is a lecturer in Music Production at Royal College of Music and a Doctoral Student in Sound and Music Computing at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. His focus is on music production for interactive environments including computer games, virtual reality, interactive installations and more. Hi combines decades of teaching experience with web audio innovation and a passion for live music aiming at making sound and music development with web technology more accessible for music producers.