The Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PCSS) has created an installation that allows scientists to hear sound in a 360-degree perspective. The constructed system consists of 24 independent speakers, forming three octagonal rings, located at three different heights.
The loudspeakers are placed in a circle, and the listener should stand in its central point, the so-called sweet spot – a place where the ambisonous sphere has its greatest efficiency. It allows them to fully experience the sound of space around. The presented sound is a kind of imitation of how the sound wave moves in the space of the natural environment.
As part of the Immersify research project, PCSS performed a series of experimental ambisonic recordings and multi-channel sound projections. One of them was the recording of the jazz band Anomalia, whose members are students of the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań.
