January 19-23 we had a workshop at the State Academy of music in spatialisation.
We where using the Auditorium which has a 7.1 sound system. Working in a big hall made a huge difference especially to Henrik Hellstenius Victoria Counting II. We had about 2 hours each on each piece and I also got to try out Ivar Frounberg,s granulation patch. Everything worked and the new set up for my midi pedal worked too. The patch has 3 buffers with a lot of
possibilities of playback and use of different filters.
Ivar Frounberg and myself trying out the granulationpatch at the workshop
Alexander R Jensenius did a very interesting demonstration of vbap; surround panning for sound sources in multi-loudspeakers environments using Vector-Based Amplitude Panning. “In VBAP the number of loudspeakers can be arbitrary, and they can be positioned in an arbitrary 2-D or 3-D setups.” (from the inventor of vbap Ville Pulkki,s homepage)
Alexander also demostrated rvbap with rewerb and munger1~ realtime multichannel granulator
a.k.a. the swiss-army-knife of realtime granular synthesis (www.maxobjects.com)
Edvin Østvik who is doing the live electronics Victoria Counting II is already using vbap and munger1~ . The new possibilities of the placing of the sounds is very promising. It makes it possible to direct my sounds from the loudspeaker I am the closest to or in between. I do also like the different possebilities of granulation in munger1~
Installation
I was at the opening og Christina Kubisch opening in Mortensrud church February 2 a beautiful chuch a little ouside Oslo. I really liked the way her installation was intergrated in the room and the use of infrared light. 
