Prof. Eric Lyon at Virginia Tech has edited a special issue of Divergence Press on spatial music, which has just been published online (free, open access) by the University of Huddersfield’s Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM).
You can read the editorial for the issue here.
The issue has articles on sound installations, spatial music presentation spaces, artistic collaborations and techniques and theories.
It includes my own collaboration with Dr Ricky Graham at Stevens Institute of Technology, entitled ‘Strategies for Spatial Music Performance’. This article is part of our ongoing work on applying ideas and models from embodied cognition to a spatial music performance system (see also our NIME 2014 short paper/poster and our paper for Re–New Digital Arts Conference, Copenhagen, 2013). The new article is nicely summarised by the editor thus:
Ricky Graham and Brian Bridges explore spatial performance practice with a focus on spatial mappings and gestural narratives. Their detailed report on technical implementations will be of particular interest to musicians working to extend the boundaries of spatial sound performance.
This journal is flying the flag for open access, so please read and share; great to see such a cross–section of work, including one from fellow Spatial Music Collective member Augustine Leudar: An alternative approach to 3D audio recording and reproduction.