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- Title
Creating a Remote Choir Performance Recording Based on an Ambisonic Approach.
- Authors
Mróz, Bartłomiej; Odya, Piotr; Kostek, Bożena
- Abstract
Featured Application: It is shown that quality of experience (QoE) techniques, such as eye-tracking, might be applicable to measure the ease of performing in a remote-like simulated environment setting. This is backed up by the results of the eye-tracker-based examination with choristers, which reveal that regardless of the virtual location of the recording, almost all persons generally focus on the conductor, similarly as in regular performance situations. The fixation point remained on the conductor's face, but less on his hands, which were used to convey expressiveness inscribed within the music notation. In such a setting, participants' familiarity with the sung piece and their ability to read music notes fluently may be accounted for. The aim of this paper is three-fold. First, the basics of binaural and ambisonic techniques are briefly presented. Then, details related to audio-visual recordings of a remote performance of the Academic Choir of the Gdansk University of Technology are shown. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, artists had a choice, namely, to stay at home and not perform or stay at home and perform. In fact, staying at home brought in the possibility of creating and developing art at home while working online. During the first months of lock-down, the audience was satisfied with music performances that were fairly far from the typical experience of a real concert hall. Then, more advanced technology was brought to facilitate joint rehearsal and performance of better quality, including multichannel sound and spatialization. At the same time, spatial music productions benefited from the disadvantage of remote rehearsal by creating immersive experiences for the audience based on ambisonic and binaural techniques. Finally, subjective tests were prepared and performed to observe performers' attention behavior divided between the conductor and music notation in the network-like environment. To this end, eye-tracking technology was employed. This aspect is related to the quality of experience (QoE), which in the performance area–and especially in remote mode–is essential.
- Subjects
POLITECHNIKA Gdanska; MUSICAL notation; MUSICAL performance; STAY-at-home orders; CONCERT halls; EYE tracking
- Publication
Applied Sciences (2076-3417), 2022, Vol 12, Issue 7, p3316
- ISSN
2076-3417
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/app12073316