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Aural Spaces – Interactive Session: Bring Your Own Sounds

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Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 13:00
In this interactive session of 1,5 hours, you will be introduced to spatial listening, spatial composition and learn about, and most importantly listen to, artistic practices and sonic examples within the 4DSOUND system. Beforehand, you will capture sounds from your own surroundings using audio recording on your smartphone (or any other audio recording device), which you will share with our team before the event. We will turn them into a variety of listening experiences, in combination with the sound of... Read full text
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Robin Koek
Mint Park

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