Sonic Production Intelligence Research and Applications Lab

SPIRAL Facilities

Sound Design A.I. Studio

A state-of-art production space and sound/task analysis infrastructure for audio engineering and
research of task-analysis, music information retrieval, and Creative A.I. tool development.
* Digital Audio Workstation and control surfaces
* Signal analysis workstation.
* Multichannel audio dispersion and monitoring.
* Modular and semi-modular analogue hardware
* Analogue and digital effects processors
* Motu and RME audio interfaces

S​ound Capture

The function of the Sound Capture Facility is to provide the infrastructure necessary to record musicians, and sound effects artists at a professional quality essential for the sound design tasks analysis and music information retrieval objectives in the SPIRAL research program.
Mics: Earthworks M30, DK25/L, Sennheiser e908-B-EW, Neumann KM184, Shure SM57, SM58, BETA 181O, RODE M5, Sennheiser AMBEO
RME 12 Mic

Sonic Experience

The SPIRAL sonic experience infrastructure is a 900sqft acoustically treated space  for research in developing audio technology and user experience studies of perfromance  systems, and immersive envirnments in VR, video games and sound design media. Such research conducting listener and user experience studies will account for the multiple formats layouts that current and future media for-mats require by providing a flexible system of high standard audio and visual displays.
* 36 channel genelec SAM system
* Dual Genelec subwoofer
* Stage Lighting
* Large format projectors