“Thanks to two new programs at la Société des arts technologiques (SAT), you will soon be able to experience the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal in a fully immersive audio environment on your phone,” writes Brendan Kelly in Thursday’s (7/24) Montreal Gazette (Canada). “Madeleine Careau, CEO of the OSM, said the … orchestra is always searching for new ways to reach audiences beyond the concert hall…. The research programs are for collective spontaneous immersion and acoustic simulation for virtual reality and augmented reality…. SAT [is] a … center for research into immersive technologies [and] a venue for a wide variety of cultural events, with the immersive shows happening in the Satosphère, a permanent dome built specifically for 360-degree immersive experiences. The OSM already has opened a space just beside its concert hall at the Maison symphonique to help people discover the history of the orchestra via, in part, virtual reality. ‘And we’re going to bring projects developed by the SAT to this space,’ said Careau.… For the next three years, the team from SAT will spend a week each year recording OSM rehearsals and concerts to create immersive acoustic projects.” Says SAT president and founder Monique Savoie, “We’re democratizing the experience of listening to an orchestra.’ ”
Posted July 30, 2019
