Sonic Days 2024: Full Schedule

10:30 CET

Sound design for automotive

Wednesday November 20, 2024 10:30 - 11:30 CET

Sound interaction plays a crucial role in the general user interface of a car, especially since the task of driving a car largely occupies the driver visually. Hence automotive sound design is generally intended to promote safety and optimize usability. As the automotive industry is in the transforming, shifting from combustion to electric propulsion, manual to autonomous driving and adding new mobility solutions, new use cases are arising including possibilities as well as challenges with regards to the need of sound interaction and design. This session will cover some background, the current use of sound design and sound interaction principles as well as upcoming trends and outlooks for sound interaction in automotive industry with a special focus on Volvo Cars implementation.

Speakers

Fredrik Hagman

Volvo Cars

Wednesday November 20, 2024 10:30 - 11:30 CET
3.09 - Conferences room Universitetsparken 2, Kolding, Danmark

Interactive Audio, Intermediate

13:30 CET

Decounstruction of Sound Good & Evil

Wednesday November 20, 2024 13:30 - 14:30 CET

3.09 - Conferences room

In Else Marie Pades electronic music works from 1950s-1980s we find a rare combination of compositional strategies: ‘concrete sound’ recordings ranging from the sounds of everyday life to prepared acoustical instruments, side by side with pure electronic sounds, all manipulated and structured through compositional operations of strict serialism – composed for radio broadcast or to be performed as theatrical performances or as multimedia sound installations.
We are at the birth of electronic avantgarde music and musical modernism in Europe beginning in the 1950s, where the horrors of 2. World War permeats everything including art and music – much like today. In this atmosphere of trauma and hope Else Marie Pade discovers sound wave interference that she uses as an aesthetic technique to create a sonic continuum with ‘good’ and ‘evil’ as its opposite poles.
With this palette of early electronic sound techniques, what does war sound like? Doomsday sound like? Or love and salvation sound like?

Speakers

Ingeborg Okkels

Ingeborg Okkels is sound researcher and sound designer living in Copenhagen, Denmark.She has a PHD degree in Musicology from Copenhagen University, where she has looked into the relation between music technology, sound perception and listening behaviour. She has been a lecturer and... Read More →

Wednesday November 20, 2024 13:30 - 14:30 CET
3.09 - Conferences room Universitetsparken 2, Kolding, Danmark

Interactive Audio

15:30 CET

Sonic Travel

Wednesday November 20, 2024 15:30 - 16:30 CET

3.09 - Conferences room

How to compose out of pure movement using vertical dancers, a VR system, binaural sound, some programming and a lot of imagination? BEFORE notes and harmony, BEFORE rhythm and timbre. Pure movement in space as the beginning of composition.
A part of MicroGravity (an action performance by Sparrow Dance), Sonic Travel is a sound installation which visually links the blind with the deaf, and in which the two spaces they individually choreograph become renewed tools for the creation of music.

Speakers

Yann Coppier

Sound Artist, Ovale

Yann Coppier is a sound artist, composer and PhD candidate in artistic research in music at Lund University (Sweden).An experimental musician focusing on absurd sounds, he tends to be pushing for extremes while creating new techniques in order to generate, record and diffuse sounds... Read More →

Wednesday November 20, 2024 15:30 - 16:30 CET
3.09 - Conferences room Universitetsparken 2, Kolding, Danmark

Interactive Audio

10:30 CET

4 Sound Perspectives in Mixed Reality.

Thursday November 21, 2024 10:30 - 11:30 CET

3.09 - Conferences room

Creative Sessions:

Creating immersive experience on multi platforms, ways of composing music for interactive immersive environments, including installations, exhibits, and VR/AR experiences.

Hear directly from creators Mons Niklas Schak as he share their experiences, challenges, in bringing audio-driven projects to life.
Based on the site-specific audiovisual experience Cars Choir - The Redemption Sound, the project explores interaction in a Mixed Reality ,
which merges Dolby Atmos, 3D audio in VR, and augmented reality to create a unique auditory experience on multi platforms.

It inspires creative minds to rethink how we can use technology to create meaningful and interactive experiences in new ways.

Speakers

Mons Niklas Schak

Assistant Professor in film composition, Danish National Academy of Music.

Mons Niklas Schak : Over the past 22 years, I've composed music for films, art installations, virtual reality, TV series, dance performances, and released 5 albums. I composed music for "Heirloom" by Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind for the 58th Venice Biennale, "The Ambassador" by Mads... Read More →

Thursday November 21, 2024 10:30 - 11:30 CET
3.09 - Conferences room Universitetsparken 2, Kolding, Danmark

Interactive Audio

13:30 CET

Spatial audio rendering in the vehicle environment

Thursday November 21, 2024 13:30 - 14:30 CET

3.09 - Conferences room

Dive into the challenges and opportunities of bringing immersive audio experiences into the confined space of a vehicle. This talk will highlight some of the challenges with reproducing spatial audio in the vehicle environment and discuss strategies to overcome those challenges.

Thursday November 21, 2024 13:30 - 14:30 CET
3.09 - Conferences room Universitetsparken 2, Kolding, Danmark

Interactive Audio

17:00 CET

Auditory Displays for Remote Road Vehicle Operations - An Overview

Thursday November 21, 2024 17:00 - 18:00 CET

3.09 - Conferences room

There are many technical and practical challenges that need to be solved to ensure efficient and safe automation of road vehicles such as cars and trucks. Remote operation, which allows a human operator to support and even drive an automated vehicle from a distance, has been proposed as a solution to some of these challenges. In this session, we will give an overview of the field of remote operation as such and deep dive into the use of sound as a potential improvement to the current predominantly visual remote operator interfaces. We will try to answer what types of sounds and auditory displays will be helpful for the operator, how these should be designed and how they might be integrated into the operator interface. Furthermore, we will give examples of studies that show that when designed properly, auditory displays can have measurable positive effects such as lowered cognitive load, improved speed regulation performance and increased situational awareness.

Speakers

Pontus Larsson

Human factors specialist / Sound designer, Ictech AB

Thursday November 21, 2024 17:00 - 18:00 CET
3.09 - Conferences room Universitetsparken 2, Kolding, Danmark

Interactive Audio

Sonic Days 2024