City Immersive Sound and Movement Environment (CISME)

这个项目将构建一个创新的模块化表演系统——城市沉浸式声音和运动环境，这将使我们能够进行包括双声、扩展现实和沉浸式投影在内的视听表演研究。在戏剧和舞蹈表演中，使用数字技术，如化身、运动跟踪和各种形式的扩展/虚拟现实，正变得越来越普遍。在这个系统中，这些将与我们现有的声音实践和在不同空间中操纵声音的研究优势结合并扩展。该系统将是便携式的，因此它不仅可以部署在城市的内部空间，也可以部署在外部，在那里它将支持各种不同场地的表演活动。虽然之前的研究分别在3D成像和运动或沉浸式声音领域取得了进展，但CISME探索3D运动、图像和音频的协同作用的核心动机是一个新颖的目标，也是City和Urdang唯一有资格实现的目标。除了该系统将允许的尖端研究之外，我们还将使用它作为音乐，舞蹈和音乐剧学生培训和发展的一部分，以便他们可以获得使用一些最新数字技术的经验，他们将越来越多地发现这些技术是他们未来职业生涯中所渴望的专业环境的一部分。

This project will lead to the construction of an innovative, modular performance system - City Immersive Sound and Movement Environment - which will allow us to undertake research in audio-visual performance involving ambisonic sound, extended reality, and immersive projection. The use of digital techniques such as avatars, movement tracking and various forms of extended/virtual reality are becoming increasingly widespread in theatre and dance performance. In this system these will become allied to, and extend, our existing research strengths in sound practice and the manipulation of sound within different spaces. The system will be portable, so that it can be deployed not only in City's internal spaces, but also externally, where it will underpin performance events in a variety of different venues. While previous research has made advances separately in the fields of 3D imaging and movement or immersive sound, the core motivation of CISME to explore the synergies of 3D movement, image, and audio is a novel goal, and one for which City and Urdang are uniquely qualified.In addition to the cutting-edge research that the system will allow, we shall also use it as part of the training and development of our students in music, dance and musical theatre, so that they can gain experience of working with some of the latest digital techniques that they will increasingly find to be part of the professional environments to which they aspire in their future careers.