Future Sound Forum

An inspiring afternoon

 Thanks to all of you who contributed to an inspiring event at Aalborg University in Copenhagen!

Speakers, panelists, people in charge of the demos & games, researchers, students from several universities and participants from the sound business, – and all other participants joining this networking day. 

 

Participants from a broad spectrum of the sound industry

29 organizations were represented at the Future Sound Forum.

 

Talks and Panels

 Machine learning for audio-visual speech enhancement or reconstruction

• Daniel Michelsanti, CASPR, AAU

Cochlear implants & privacy including synthesized data from models of real users

• Niels Pontoppidan, Eriksholm Research Centre

Sound quality in digital meetings paper, presented for the first time by:

• Birger Schneider, Chairman on the Danish Sound Cluster board
• Clément Laroche, Jabra
• Tore Stegenborg-Andersen, SenseLab, FORCE Technology
• Torben Christiansen, Director of Technology, EPOS

Panel: Privacy & Audio

• Jonas Lidström, Alexandra Instituttet
• Sune Hannibal Holm, Copenhagen University
• Torben Christiansen, EPOS
• Nick Dunkerly, Hindenburg

Panel: The sound of Metaverse

• Oliver Scheuregger, Senior Spatial Audio Engineer, Bang & Olufsen
• Stefania Serafin, Professor, Multisensory Experience Lab, AAU
• Edo Fouilloux, Director, Patch XR
• Morten Haulik, CEO, Midwife VR

Demos & Games

Patch XR

• Patchworld, an open-ended world builder
• The Jellyfish, a new collaborative work by Mélodie Mousset and Edo Fouilloux

Vibrating Concert Furniture

• Razvan Paisa, AAU Multisensory Experience Lab presents vibrating concert furniture for cochlear implant users

The Tickle Tuner

• Francesco Ganis’ Master’s thesis project in collaboration with Oticon Medical: A haptic device used for music training in cochlear implant users

Duo Rhythmo

• Enables people living with motor disabilities to create music collaboratively and remotely in real time. Read more here. Created by Lilla Tóth, Marcus Dyrholm, Scott Naylor, Christian Tsalidis, Balazs Ivanyi and Truls Tjemsland.

Lyt Igen

• An interactive virtual reality application developed for young people with hearing loss to train their hearing and other skills related to their condition. This project was made in collaboration with The Velux Foundations, Decibel, and Rigshospitalet’s Center for Hørelse og Balance. Created by Carl Hanefeld-Møller Hutters and Daniel Reipur

Music Museum

• A museum in virtual reality allowing users to listen to and play on various different instruments. Created by Carl Hanefeld-Møller Hutters and Daniel Reipur

MuCIcal Adventures

• ‘MuCIcal Adventures’ is a virtual reality game with the purpose of gradually improving cochlear implant users abilities in localization of sound, musical instrument identification and melody recognition. Created by Signe Kroman and Emil Sønderskov Hansen.