Acoustic Realities: Collaborations in Creative Acoustics Research

声学现实项目旨在实现创造性地使用声学建模和测量技术方面的切实成果，从而进一步加强和发展约克大学音频实验室目前的这一研究组合。自2007年10月起的九个月期间，将通过一系列新的和现有的研究合作来促进这项工作，中心是项目首席调查员Damian Murphy博士。计划中的方案旨在采取跨学科的方法，并在可证明的公共工程、外联活动以及未来研究和知识转让相关活动的计划方面取得一系列成果。在声学建模工作方面，与斯德哥尔摩KTH的言语、听觉和音乐系以及贝尔法斯特女王大学声学艺术研究中心的双边合作将分别探索房间声学模拟的发音和歌唱合成和边界建模的新方法。该机构最先进的声学实验室设施还将用于根据高分辨率空间声学测量创建和模拟虚拟声环境。这些将用于与诺丁汉大学建筑环境学院合作，突出和展示这种技术在基于声学遗产的应用中的新颖使用。学术界和产业界之间的双向知识转移将通过与专业音频软件行业的合作伙伴建立更紧密的工作关系来加强，从而为这项侧重于房间声学模拟和虚拟环境建模的研究提供更多的开发和商业化机会。最后，将与加拿大蒙特拉尔麦吉尔大学的世界知名音乐技术集团之一建立新的国际合作关系，在该领域领先研究人员的指导下，并利用音乐媒体与技术跨学科研究中心(CIRMMT)的新设施，进一步传播和发展该项目的成果。这一动态和多样化的合作计划侧重于声学建模和声学测量领域，将使参与该项目的各方直接受益，并通过他们自己的地方、国家和国际伙伴关系得到更广泛的发展。特别是，这项工作将在声学、声学建模和空间声学领域产生一些重大影响，并可能导致声学、建筑和遗产应用领域的新发展。

The Acoustic Realities project aims to realise tangible outcomes in the creative use of acoustic modelling and measurement techniques and thereby further enhance and develop this current portfolio of research in the Audio Lab at the University of York. This will be facilitated through a series of both new and existing research collaborations over the course of a nine month period from October 2007, centred on the project Principal Investigator, Dr Damian Murphy. The planned programme is designed to be cross-disciplinary in its approach and lead to a series of outcomes in terms of demonstrable public works, outreach activities and plans for future research and knowledge transfer related activities. In terms of acoustic modelling work, bilateral collaborations with the Department of Speech, Hearing and Music, KTH, Stockholm and the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast, will explore new methods of articulatory speech and singing synthesis and boundary modelling for room acoustics simulation respectively. The state of the art Sonic Laboratory facility at the latter institution will also be used in the creation and simulation of virtual sound environments based on high resolution spatial acoustic measurements. These will be used to highlight and demonstrate the novel use of such techniques in acoustic heritage based applications in collaboration with the School of the Built Environment at the University of Nottingham. Two-way knowledge transfer between academia and industry will be enhanced through closer working relationships with a partner from the pro-audio software industry, leading to additional development and commercialisation opportunities for aspects of this research focused on room acoustics simulation and virtual environment modelling. Finally new international collaborations will be established with one of the world's renowned music technology groups at McGill University, Montral, Canada where the outcomes from this project will be disseminated and developed further under guidance from leading researchers in the field and using new facilities at The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT).This dynamic and diverse programme of collaborative work, focusing on the fields of acoustic modelling and acoustic measurement, will see a direct benefit to those parties participating in the project and more widely through their own local, national and international partnerships. In particular this work will make some significant impact in the voice, acoustic modelling and spatial acoustics communities and also potentially lead to new developments in the field of acoustics, architecture and heritage applications.