The seventh
Student 3D Audio
Production Competition
2023

The Seventh International Student 3D Audio Production Competition in Ambisonics 2023

In 2023, the Student 3D Audio Competition is taking place for the seventh year in a row. Again, we've got many submissions of high quality, elaborate, peppered with trend-setting ideas. The finals and award ceremony take place during the Tonmeistertagung and they will be streamed, too. As last year, the nominated pieces were already presented as part of the ORF musikprotokoll.
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The 3D categories:

  • Contemporary / Computer music
  • Audio drama / Documentary / Soundscapes
  • Music recording / Studio production

Enjoy the live recording from Thursday, November 9, 2023

The winner productions

Wei Yang

Gold Winner in Category 1: Contemporary Music, Computer Music. DXARTS@University of Washington (USA), with „ní nán“

Yongbing Dai

Silver Winner in Category 1: Contemporary Music, Computer Music. Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen (DK), with „Nirvana rebirth?“

Zétény Nagy

Bronze Winner in Category 1: Contemporary Music, Computer Music. Illinois State University (USA), with „Would There Be A Void?“

Jisu Han, Seungryeol Paik

Gold-Winner in Category 2: Audio Drama, Documentary, Soundscape. Seoul National University (KR), with „The Borderless Space“

Mariia Yaremak

Silver Winner in Category 2: Audio Drama, Documentary, Soundscape. Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy, Lviv (UA), with „If trees had a voice“

Lucca Riitano, Leonie Adam, Jan Feldmann, Adrian Hense, Leon Sudahl

Bronze Winner in Category 2: Audio Drama, Documentary, Soundscape. HAW Hamburg (DE), with „Der Hafen“

Felix Niedermair

Gold Winner in Category 3: Music Recording, Studio Production. KUG, Graz (AT), with „Fair“

Stefanos Ioannou

Silver Winner in Category 3: Music Recording, Studio Production. HfM Detmold (DE), with „Aquarium“

Leonard Ehlers, Maite Rauh

Bronze Winner in Category 3: Music Recording, Studio Production. THM Wetzlar (DE), with „Run“

Bartłomiej Mróz

Honorable Mention in Category 3: Music Recording, Studio Production. Gdansk University of Technology (PL), with "Deux Ex Machina"

Many thanks to the Jurors who evaluated the contributions with highest verve and compentence:

Martin Supper, UdK, Berlin , Matthias Kronlachner, Vilnius , Daniel Mayer, KUG, Graz , Thibaut Carpentier, ircam, Paris , Daniel Courville, UQAM, Montreal , Gerriet K. Sharma, SPAES, Berlin , Joseph Anderson, DXARTs, University of Washington, Seattle , Nils Meyer-Kahlen, Aalto University, Espoo , Daniel Arteaga, Dolby Laboratories, Barcelona , Fränk Zimmer, ORF musikprotokoll, Graz , Adi Snir, Reichmann University, Tel Aviv.

Ana Monte, DELTA Soundworks, Sandhausen, Matthias Kronlachner, Vilnius, Annika Neidhardt, Frank Melchior, HdM, Stuttgart, Sebastià V. Amengual Garí, Meta, Seattle, Kristian Jambrošić, FER, Zagreb , Paweł Małecki, AGH, Krakow, Michael Iber, FH St Pölten, Clovis Gouaillier, UQAM, Montreal, Joseph Anderson, DXARTs, University of Washington, Seattle.

Lasse Nipkow, Silent Work, Zürich, Dietz Tinhof, Vienna Symphonic Library, Vienna, Marcel Remy, HR, Kassel, Robert Mores, HAW, Hamburg, Thomas Görne, HAW, Hamburg, Gavin Kearney, University of York, Robert Sazdov, Sydney, Tom Parnell, Bertram Kornacher, RCSMM, Madrid, Frank Melchior, HdM, Stuttgart, Daniel Arteaga, Dolby Laboratories, Barcelona, Christian Munk, munk productions, Valby, Denmark, Annika Neidhardt, Michael Iber, FH St Pölten, Clovis Gouaillier, UQAM, Montreal, Sebastià V. Amengual Garí, Meta, Seattle.

Sponsors of the Competition

ambiXes

APL

Dear Reality GmbH

FLUX:: Immersive

Harpex Ltd

IEM

Munk Productions

New Audio Technology

ORF musikprotokoll

pinguin

Sennheiser

SSA Plugins

Supperware

VDT e. V.

Vienna Symphonic Library

IEM Graz together with the ORF musikprotokoll and the VDT

The Competition is a cooperation of the Institut für Elektronische Musik und Akustik der Kunstuniversität Graz (IEM) and Verband Deutscher Tonmeister (VDT), and this year again with the ORF musikprotokoll.

The contribution format is 5th order Ambisonics as there are many free production tools available and no licence fees have to be paid. Contributing to the Competition is an important step for the students into the professional world of pro audio. At the same time there are attractive prizes for the winners waiting.

Headtracking with Camera-Tracked 3D Audio Player (Cat3DA)

It is best to use circumaural headphones. To be able to use head tracking, a webcam must be available and enabled on the playback device. The following browsers are suitable for playback: Firefox, Opera or Chrome on a PC (Mac or Windows). Playback via the Safari browser, smartphones or tablets is currently not possible or not recommended.

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Productions of other years

Become curious? All award-winning submissions of the 3D-Audio Competitions since 2020 can be heard binaural with headtracking here:

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