GIA

Global Internet Audio

GIA is an intuitive modular mixing environment for sharing sonic scenes, acoustic properties, and social events across the global internet network in real-time. GIA is a feature on OpenMixer, a collaborative mixer-less multi-channel audio system for playback, mixing, and spatialization. With GIA, a user will be able to send and receive audio from an environment or node, to any other or multiple nodes.

Examples

• Imagine watching a play and sounds streaming live in context with the scenes(city streets, dining hall, forest, ocean)


• Sing or play into a microphone and have it play through several spaces, mixed with visuals, and live streamed into an exhibit or museum for viewing.


• Have a scheduled performance lineup involving several performers at several stages with each stage experiencing the whole show simultaneously during a campus wide event.


• Create real-time stereo mixdown of events in 3D HRTF preserving spatialization and broadcast it over IceCast


• Perform live using analog electronics and digital effects remotely eliminating the need for bringing heavy and expensive gear.


• During the buildup, tear down, or modification of a space, take sonic snapshot of the acoustical features and recreate that sonic environment in another space.

Week 1

• Brainstorming

Week 2

• Design hardware and software spec for nodes.





• Complete Gia addition to OpenMixer.


• Implement ambisonics in OpenMixer and tune Speakers in Listening room.


• Organize Lineup, Venues, and Date for multi-location performance.


• Inquire about Icecast on multi-core machine.

Week 3

• Place nodes in various locations on campus and experiment with sounds


• Simulate Multiple Venue concert inside CCRMA and broadcast over Icecast