Zach Layton
512 Voices
Amelia Watkins, Soprano
EMPAC
March 31, 2016
7:30pm

World premiere of a new work for voice and electronics
featuring soprano Amelia Watkins utilizing an innovative wavefield synthesis loudspeaker array in 512 discrete
channels, currently in development at EMPAC. Wavefield synthesis is a spatial audio reproduction
technique enabling the perception of precise positioning and dynamic shaping of sound sources in virtual
auditory space. The concert will feature live voice, 512 channels of processed vocals and spatialized
electronic sound, and the first public performance utilizing this incredible new sound system developed by
the engineering team at EMPAC.

directions and more information at empac.rpi.edu