Can you hear me now

McIntosh, Verity

Abstract

Sound is one of the most evocative storytelling devices we have. Never more so than in immersive storytelling, where sound plays so many key roles in the construction of narrative, the creation of presence, the development of an emotional landscape and the building of spatial relationships that allow a participant to locate herself in an embodied manner within the scene.

At UWE Bristol we knew all of this to be true, but until we engaged with the Train the Trainer programme, our ability to teach it with any level of detail, and with the crucial underpinning of technical workflows, had been constrained by a lack of experience within our team.

For us, this project was the opportunity to remedy that. To develop a forward-looking teaching programme that would support students in designing and developing dynamic and sophisticated immersive soundscapes.

We chose to pool internal expertise from across our arts and science faculties, and drew on the expertise of pioneering practitioners Tanuja Amarasuriya and Duncan Speakman to develop inspirational and instructional learning tools.

• Report Type: Research Report
• Acceptance Date: Jul 27, 2021
• Deposit Date: Oct 18, 2022
• Keywords: immersive audio, teaching, augmented reality, spatial computing, ambisonics
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10098430
• Related Public URLs: https://www.storyfutures.com/academy