PURE Ambisonics Concert & the Night of Ambisonics

The "PURE Ambisonics Concert" features Ambisonical music as an art form, where an experienced musical sound field is placed in the main focus. Historically you could interpret the Ambisonic music experience being in line with absolute music at the mid of the 19th century and pure electro-acoustic works performed in the late 1990s. Like absolute music (or abstract music), Ambisonics pieces need not be explicitly "about" anything, and in contrast to program music, they may also be non-representational. Rather than playing with different loudspeaker characteristics and their spatial distribution, as e.g. in acousmatic music or loudspeaker theaters, the Ambisonic technology allows to feature and musically compose and shape the contents of the presented sound field as a "Virtual Auditory Environment" – AVE in the meaning Jens Blauert's stated this in the beginning of the 21th century:

Fr.18.Sept. im Mumuth at Art University Graz, Austria
 "Pure Ambisonics Concert" -  2015, 19h30 - 22h
 "Night of Ambisoncis" - 11.p.m. - 2 a.m. + open end and bar

for ICSA-2015 (Internationale Konferenz über Spatial Audio 2015) and national radio Ö1

https://www.tonmeister.de/index.php?p=veranstaltungen/icsa2015/call

Categories of Ambisonics music cover an open range from pure synthesis, abstract sound collages, imitation of real room instruments (e.g. church organs), spatial audio recordings of concerts, environmental soundfield recordings, experimental audio art work ... .

Selected contributions for the "PURE Ambisonics Concert" are dedicated composition for soundfields to be preproduced on computer, so that they can be performed by playback (with moderation) on the 3D Ambisonic loudspeaker system up to 5th order of the concert venue.

There is also plenty of time for additional pieces in the "Long Night of Ambisonics" after the concert, in which spatial audio recordings in Ambisonics of any order are one featured topic, along with recordings with virtual microphones within virtual 3D spaces. There is also a special interest in historical Ambisonics pieces, even if they might not fit the state-of-the-art quality. Interviews and live moderation will be held with the participants and audio contributers to be transmitted in the national radio Ö1.

The moderation and a spatial audio material is mixed in the Ambisonics domain and will automatically be rendered for binaural and 5.1-downmixed radio broadcast(terrestrial/satellite).

Historically you could interpret the Ambisonic music experience being in line with absolute music at the end of the 18th century and pure electro-acoustic works performed in the late 19th century. Like absolute music (or abstract music), Ambisonics pieces need not be explicitly "about" anything, and in contrast to program music, they may also be non-representational. Rather than playing with different loudspeaker characteristics and their spatial distribution, as e.g. in acousmatic music or loudspeaker theaters, the Ambisonic technology allows to feature and musically compose and shape the contents of the presented sound field as a "Virtual Auditory Environment" - AVE.