Wave field synthesis – The 192 speaker experience

This is a great project, it’s a new technique of reproducing sound. One of the main advantages is (as explained in the movie) that it contains a far more realistic spatialisation of the waveforms.

See it for your self right here

Here you can find also a schedule of where the installation will be exhibited and has been in the past. Seeing it for real is the only way you can truly understand what this stands for.

There’s a lot of info on the theory behind wavefield synthesisis on the web, very interesting material.