Great Festival House

Great Festival House in Salzburg, Austria

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Here you can listen to Mozart’s “Donna Elvira” Aria played virtually in the Great Festival House, in Salzburg, Austria. The multi source auralisation is based on anechoic recordings from Aalto University.

The instruments were recorded individually in an anechoic chamber with 22 microphones: 20 in a dodecahedron arrangement, 1 directly in front, and 1 directly above (as described by this paper). The examples in this page were produced with the tracks from the frontal microphone (0º azimuth, 0º elevation). 

The auralisation was made for 3 audience positions (blue dots) as shown in the figure below.

Sources and receivers for Gothenburg example

Source and receiver positions for the auralization.

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Mozart: "Donna Elvira" Aria
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Audience position 1
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Audience position 2
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Audience position 3
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Below you may download an ODEON Zip Archive of this example, which is a packaged ODEON model (for ODEON Auditorium or Combined, 15.15 or newer) containing all the necessary files to run it: room geometry, assigned materials, source and receiver placements, anechoic recordings, etc. The extracted anechoic recordings can then be used for auralizations on any other room model. 

To unzip an ODEON Zip Archive:

  1. Launch ODEON
  2. Go to File > Zip > Unzip archive
  3. Select your downloaded ODEON Zip Archive
  4. Select a folder to extract the files 
 

ODEON will then automatically load the room.

ODEON Zip Archive download

Room: Great Festival House. Anechoic recording: Mozart’s “Donna Elvira” Aria, produced by Aalto University. 

We have more ODEON Zip Archives available for download, which include different room models and anechoic recordings.