Structures for Wave Field Synthesis, by Elías Merino & Daniel del Río

Structures for Wave Field Synthesis

by Elías Merino & Daniel del Río

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Øivind Idsø So, wave field synthesis could really be called real life synthesis? Despite its digital original, this is so moving, so organic, that it could be some kind of garden growth - although the clanks and catanks and whirrs hints otherwise. One of the best first listens I've had in a while.

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250 gsm recycled paper cover
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Size: 210 x 297 mm
Language: English

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This work was written and recorded by Elías Merino and Daniel del Río in 2016 during a residency at The Game of Life Foundation’s Wave Field Synthesis System in The Hague (The Netherlands). All the material is based on algorithmic synthetic sound and it was recorded in binaural format.
According to the description in Game of Life Foundation’s website, Wave Field Synthesis (WFS) is a sound production technology designed specifically for spatial audio rendering. The WFS system consists of 192 speakers, which are arranged in a square formation of 10 by 10 metres. Unlike conventional audio procedures (e.g stereo / surround) the perception of these wave fields is not dependent on psychoacoustic “phantom” sound perception, therefore the WFS sound field is actually reconstructed physically.

Although WFS is assembled in a 192x8 loudspeakers array, this work approaches the setting through the idea of a unitary – but divisible – object. Due to the technical and spatial characteristics of the system and its powerful possibilities, the music was built as a collection of different discrete synthetic sound bodies with unique peculiarities by exploring the location-unlocation concept and perspective variations.

The work is accompanied by a limited edition booklet that includes a series of computer-generated 3D drawings, a process notes and an essay written by AA Cavia. The images of the booklet were created after the music, as a synaesthetic interpretation/portrait of the plasticity of sound, including as well an interpretation of the articulations and variations of the musical form. This visual imagery also portrays our idea of the WFS system as an unenclosed and malleable surface.

Composed, mixed and recorded by Elías Merino and Daniel del Río

Mastered by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros

Booklet Design by Joe Gilmore

Published by Superpang 2021

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