Aalto student team won gold at the 6th European Students 3D audio competition

The winners Photo: Der Verband Deutscher Tonmeister*innen (VDT)

A team of four Aalto University students — Pietari Nurmi, Kamila Kondraciuk, Mia Savo and Teodors Kerimovs — won the gold medal in Category 2: Audio Drama / Documentary / Soundscapes at the 6th European Students 3D audio competition. The winning project was the Spatial Audio Book (fairy tale) “Hansel and Gretel” which could be called a proof of concept for spatially mixed audiobooks.

The student team and their initial idea were formed as final project work in a course called Immersive Sound taught by Sebastian J. Schlecht, Nils Mayer-Khalen and Andrea Mancianti.

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Associate Professor for Signal Processing

My research interests include the virtual- and psychoacoustics, physical modeling and the design of virtual worlds.