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Daydreaming in Hel – Ambisonics work (2024)
Ambisonics electroacoustic piece presented during Sonorities Festival 2024 at SARC (Queen’s University Belfast).
Programme notes | Daydreaming in Hel is a field-recording based immersive piece that mirrors the dynamics of a mind that cannot settle. Racing thoughts, associations and inner talk, constantly compete with the need to relax, stirring up brain fog and agitation. It is a dance of known and unknown elements competing for attention.
The environmental sounds that structure the work were captured in the peninsular town of Hel (Poland),
by the Baltic Sea. The piece spatial sound is delivered in 3rd order Ambisonics format
Another ADHD Dream – binaural work (2024)
‘Another ADHD Dream’ is an electroacoustic miniature piece composed for the online album mix-FOF-cv-bang!*
Binaural track | Listen on headphones | Bandcamp
Programme notes | “The mind sometimes goes round and round. “Another ADHD dream” is a sound representation of the discomfort of obsessive, short and repetitive dreams that can occur in individuals with ADHD. Voices that insist, tasks repeating themselves, accumulated energy and restlessness. The only solution is to wake up. Piece originally composed in Ambisonics and decoded into binaural format.”
* The album is the result of a partnership with the Brazilian Society of Electroacoustic Music (SBME) during the organisation of the ‘IV EIME’ (International Meeting of Electroacoustic Music).
Method, system and computer program product for recording and interpolation of ambisonics sound fields – US patent (2023)
This patent refers to the joint effort at Zylia to develop a fully functional recording and playback system for live-recorded 6-degrees-of-freedom audio enabled by simultaneous Ambisonics sound fields.
Such a system could be used to enrich powerful spatial audio experiences in the future.
My contribution was mainly to develop and implement the interpolation strategy itself used during the playback stage.
The Rest of Your Life – Movie (2022)
Movie by Michael Pomeroy
My role: Sound post / sound design
The Rest of Your Life “is a coming-of-age story about Brian (Michael Pomeroy), a post-grad office drone in Ohio whose girlfriend Amanda (Brittany Brave) moves away for medical school, forcing him to confront and shed the bonds of his family and suburban society’s expectations, with the help of his co-worker George (Matt Hardy). “
Ambisonic Spaces podcast (2022)
In this 14th episode of “Ambisonic Spaces“, I talk about an old interactive soundwalk project “Lock 1 Memories” (app for Android and iOS). #FieldRecording, #BinauralAudio and #SoundPreservation.
Thanks, David Woje, for the invitation! 🖖🏼
Endless VR – Immersive movie by Wojciech Puś (2022)
“‘Endless‘: feature film & cinematic performances. The threshold between reality and hallucination: a convulsive beauty & uncanniness of metamorphosis.”
My roles: spatial sound capture / re-recording mixer (Ambisonics)
E N D L E S S (VR) – Credits
Cast: Szymon Czacki , Magdalena Wawrzyńczak , Pierre Emö , Lina Bembe , Anton Tsyhulskyi , Jorge Benavides , Pat Dudek , Edmund Krempiński, Jerzy Tabor
Director/cinematography/screenplay: Wojciech Puś
Sound design and music: Thomas Köner
Additional music: Wojciech Puś
Animation/VFX: Jerzy Tabor
Camera assistant: Tomek Lechicki
Gaffer: Michał Bratkiewicz
Camera assistant (VR): Marek Titow
Mixer / re-recording mixer (Ambisonics): Eduardo Patricio
Production (VR): Krzysztof Pijarski , Krzysztof Franek / Vnlab Pwsftvit
Development VR: Pola Borkiewicz , Jacek Nagłowski
Exploseum sound installation, Binaural / Ambisonics (2022)
This is a binaural installation I presented at the Exploseum museum* in Bydgoszcz (Poland), using spatial audio to bring to life sounds of a possible past.
Voices, machinery, movement etc. are added to this now empty room which used to be part of a German Nazi explosives-making complex.
The installation was part of a larger project carried out by lecturers (Jędrzej Rochecki, Adam Mart and I) and students from Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music.
Here’s a reproduction of the installation, but as a 360 / VR video with Ambisonics audio.
* A a unique example of industrial architecture on a global scale, practically unchanged since World War II. The facilities adapted for tourist purposes are part of one of the largest armaments factories, in the past intended for military tasks of the Third Reich.
Custom Reaper/ TouchOSC – DAW controller template v. 0.72 (late 2021)
This is an update* to the TouchOSC template I created to fit my own needs when working with REAPER (my DAW of choice). It’s not meant to replace keyboard and mouse actions, but to complement their functions and make prolonged editing and mixing work less tiring.
Download link (template, Reaper OSC config, and PDF manual)
*This template was made with the new ultra powerful TouchOSC
It was created to accommodate my own needs when working with REAPER in different workflows (editing, mixing and sound designing).
It’s somewhat chaotic (I’m no graphics designer), but useful. So, I’m sharing it here, hoping it can help you, too! =)
- Bi-directional communication
- Automatic naming of tracks
- VU metering per track
- Track, mixer and “MIDI controller” layouts
- Track, transport, general, view, and item controls
Noctambules – Art exhibition by Caroline Mesquita (2021)
Caroline Mesquita is one of the most intriguing and innovative young sculptors to emerge out of France, and the Blaffer Art Museum is excited to present her first solo museum exhibition in the United States.
Blaffer Art Museum
My roles: Music / sound design
Noctambules
November 13, 2021—March 13, 2022
120 Fine Arts Building
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204