Electroacoustic piece in ambisonic format.

Jardin de Délices has been selected by the international call The Space Laboratory 2022 and played in Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid on October 13th 2022. The piece, produced in Ambisonics, was exported to an octophonic format for the occasion.

A second presentation took place on October 20th at GME (Gabinete de Música Electroacústica), Cuenca, Spain.

Jardin de Délices is born from the acoustic space of the Jerónimos' Cloister in Madrid, today's a part of Prado Museum. This space has been acoustically measured, graphically modeled and finally auralised.

The study has been interested not only in its present form, but also in its historical configuration as a monastic cloister, as well as in other possible imaginary variations of its state and sound diffusion characteristics (e.g. surfaces covered by an absorbent material, or by a green wall, etc.). The listening points have also been multiplied in terms of distance, location and directionality with the aim of describing the sound qualities of this unique space in terms of transparency and depth.

These aural responses and multiple realities have then been applied to a series of acoustic (studio-recorded) and electronic (algorithmically synthesized ) audio materials able to sensorially portray their diffusion spaces. The result is a sonic fresco in three parts that aims at testing and expanding our everyday experience of sonic spaces by confronting acoustic realities that are not always compatible or even physically possible.

Temporary link: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/shared/c2e551ad255a50073c8af8c3b4a7775a (see "experiment 7")