{"id":18,"date":"2025-01-14T11:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T11:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apl.create.aau.dk\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2025-01-14T12:33:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:33:36","slug":"about-the-apl","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apl.create.aau.dk\/","title":{"rendered":"About The APL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Augmented Performance Lab is linked directly to the Sound and Music Computing (SMC) graduate education. As control and expressiveness in performance are related to perceived emotion and meaning, a primary focus is to enhance gestural control of live performance methods using new instruments and interfaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Areas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The laboratory consists of three areas &#8211; Making, Moving &amp; Hearing &#8211; which investigate technological, cultural, and artistic projects with both national and international partners. APL&#8217;s technical equipment captures, analyses, processes, and displays real-time human performances with augmented\/hybrid musical instruments, tangible interfaces, reactive surfaces, and 3D spatial interaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Applications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Areas of Application<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Applying such new technologies is possible in a variety of areas, such as professional music production and performance, music education, the media arts, therapy, and rehabilitation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Research Topics<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Research topics include those related to New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Active Acoustics, Sound Mixing and Spatialization, and evaluation of user\/audience experience with augmented instruments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Equipment and Facilities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Augmented Performance Lab includes three main areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Moving Space<\/strong>: An interaction area with space for gestural performance research with motion capture equipment, custom interfaces, and instruments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Making Space<\/strong>: Includes a variety of custom-designed and built augmented musical instruments, and electronics and fabrication equipment to design and create future concepts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hearing Space<\/strong>: An area for sound capture and reproduction, including sound spatialisation equipment with many high-quality loudspeakers, and an anechoic chamber for acoustic measurements and research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>All lab equipment is placed in a flexible environment that allows a wide variety of experiments to be conducted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview The Augmented Performance Lab is linked directly to the Sound and Music Computing (SMC) graduate education. As control and expressiveness in performance are related to perceived emotion and meaning, a primary focus is to enhance gestural control of live performance methods using new instruments and interfaces. Research Areas The laboratory consists of three areas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apl.create.aau.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apl.create.aau.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apl.create.aau.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apl.create.aau.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apl.create.aau.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/apl.create.aau.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/apl.create.aau.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apl.create.aau.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}