Thursday, December 30, 2010

New 3D-EST/DTS HD MA demo is coming...

I am pleased to announce the next release (2011) of a blu-ray disc in DTS HD Master Audio containing three special demo mixed by me in 3D-EST using my X-spat boX2. The three masterpieces, released at no cost under Creative Commons license, are:
1 Shock the monkey, Peter Gabriel;
2 A Secret Life, Brian Eno & David Byrne;
3 Only, Nine Inch Nails.
Stay tuned for more information on how to download free of charge the real-never-heard-before 3D audio versions of the famous songs. Please consider they are listenable only using eight speakers connected to an amplifier compatible DTS HD MA.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Kindle edition of 'Creating Soundscapes' available now on Amazon.com!


We live all our lives surrounded by sounds. Sounds are communication and aggression, emotions and alienation, art and…pollution. Creating sound landscapes means becoming aware of the existence of an individual acoustic space and learning how to enjoy it while respecting other people’s spaces. How? By developing an aesthetic sensitivity that will allow us to distinguish quality sounds from noises that damage our health; by building a new ecologic conscience to correct compromised environments; by listening… and not just to music.
Second part includes the point of views of 1. Sabino Cannone 2. Darwin Chamber 3. Angelo Farina 4. Italo Lombardo 5. Francesco Michi 6. Charlie Richmond 7. Louis Siciliano 8. Angelo Talocci 9. Andrea Valassina.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Listen in 3D at home? Now you can. (Press release)


The new codifying and de-codifying system for Blu-Ray® DTS-HD Master Audio® has today been certified compatible with the technology patented by A&G Soluzioni Digitali® for the creation of three-dimensional sound landscapes, called 3D-EST® (3D Enhanced Surround Technology). DTS-HD Master Audio® technology, for the first time since the arrival of digital audio, allows the reproduction of eight audio tracks identical to the master produced in the studio, thanks to the higher audio streaming speed of the Blu-Ray disc. 3D audio that can be achieved through the X-spat boX² workstation for productions in 3D-EST™ created and marketed by A&G Soluzioni Digitali, when played back through a 7.0 or 8.0 speaker setup, is the most lifelike and spectacular audio experience for a home theatre system currently available on the market.

“Since 1997 A&G Soluzioni Digitali has invested substantial resources and capitals in research and development focused on the problem of three-dimensional audio reproduction” says Luigi Agostini, sole director of A&G, “ and even if our X-spat boX² was already the best practical and economical solution on the market for installations and live performances, in the consumer sector the absence of a truly non compressed format with a minimum of eight channels for digital media was seriously hampering the quality of our algorithms in the distribution phase. Now, by producing in 3D-EST on Blu-Ray protected in DTS-HD Master Audio, record companies will have at their disposal the long awaited concrete solution to re-master and market in real 3D all their catalogues with truly state of the art quality.”
A&G Soluzioni Digitali started the evolution of 3D audio production in the 90s participating in the E.A.S.Y. European Project, and re-invented 3D Audio Workstations in 2004 with its X-Spatialisation Card for Apogee Rosetta 800. Today A&G Soluzioni Digitali is still in the forefront of innovation in its industrial sector with its 3D Audio Workstations and its professional applications for iPhone® and for the Apple Mac OS X operative system.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

My bestseller "Creating Soundscape" is downloadable since yesterday from Amazon UK, for Kindle PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone and Android...

Sinossi: We live all our lives surrounded by sounds. Sounds are communication and aggression, emotions and alienation, art and...pollution. Creating sound landscapes means becoming aware of the existence of an individual acoustic space and learning how to enjoy it while respecting other people's spaces. How? By developing an aesthetic sensitivity that will allow us to distinguish quality sounds from noises that damage our health; by building a new ecologic conscience to correct compromised environments; by listening... and not just to music.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

3D-EST in sync with 3D video

Since the first days of July 2010, one X-spat player is used daily in a Japanese Theme Park to add a 3D-EST soundscape to a 3D video. The soundscape have been made with X-spat boX2. My compliments to Acoustic Field, A&G exclusive distributor in Japan, for this new amazing application of our technology...

(more in Japanese language)

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

X-spat boX2 introduced at IVR Tokyo.


The new X-spat boX(2) has been presented by our Japanese Distributor, Acoustic Field, at 19th 3D & Virtual Reality Expo in Tokyo, from the 23d to the 25th of June 2010. All the visitors have liked very much the 3D audio demo and have been favorably impressed by the 3D-EST spatialization quality.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

3D-EST event with X-spat player in Rome

X-spat player and Charlie Morrow at IFS Arts 2010.
Rome, 21st of April 2010. The "Scenography Professional Days" have been held in Rome at the Casa dell'Architettura (Architecture House), a former aquarium and now the Headquarters of the Order of Architects of Rome. The IFSArts team has chosen to organise such a key event in the historical building now occupied by Roman architects. The former Aquarium is a fine example of public architecture, inaugurated in 1887 and situated in the heart of Rome’s historic centre, a short stroll from Termini mainline station. Formerly used as a cinema and as a storage facility for Rome’s Opera House, it was recently restored by the City Council and entrusted to the Order of Architects to use as their base. The restoration work unearthed in its grounds archaeological finds from ancient Rome dating from the 4th century B.C.
Luigi Agostini for A&G Soluzioni Digitali and Umberto Zanghieri for ZP Engineering have spoken about "Architetture sonore tridimensionali per una nuova estetica del suono. La progettazione, la realizzazione e la diffusione dei paesaggi sonori artistici negli ambienti pubblici e residenziali", focusing on 3D-EST® technology, the industrial brand registered by A&G Soluzioni Digitali, acronym of 3D Enhanced Surround Technology.
The main audio event has been a concert of the famous sound designer Charlie Morrow (New York) played in 3D audio using an A&G Soluzioni Digitali X-spat player and several Genelec speakers (thanks to Fiore Confuorto of A&DT).

Monday, April 12, 2010

Prima rassegna internazionale_yoursoundscape

Check out this SlideShare Presentation: in Italian but with a lot of musicians from Australia, US, Poland, Germany and Japan...

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

ProLight&Sound 2010


An X-spat player will be used as multi-channel playback system in the Link Srl booth F26 Hall 8.0 in Frankfurt. The audio will be reproduced in stereo, but it is a good occasion to evaluate to the X-spat player audio quality...

Sunday, March 7, 2010

I'm involved in a new cultural project...

Since the 4th of March 2010 I am a proud contributor of the OISTAT project, Italian language, sound category. The main target is the release, in the June 2011, of a sort of free wikipedia focused on show-business terms and technologies descriptions in 13 different languages...
http://www.oistat.org

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Two new titles available in our Yoursoundscape Binaural collection for iPhone®

Journey in the Houses of Things by Mop Cortex

Available as SD card for A&G X-spat player and as binaural software for iPhone® on iTunes™.


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Mu.E.S.Li Volume One by Associazione Mu.E.S.Li

Available as SD card for A&G X-spat player and as binaural software for iPhone® on iTunes™.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Three new Yoursoundscape Binaural softwares for iPhone®


Tamil Nadu Project by Marco Cioffi, American City Ambience by Darwin Chamber and Oltreoceano by EneaHead are the latest three softwares for iPhone® released by A&G Soluzioni Digitali for the Yoursoundscape project. The corresponding SD cards for X-spat player are available on 3Daudioshop.com.

Monday, January 11, 2010

A fantastic technical and artistic meeting


Livorno, Italy, January 7-8 2010. Steve Heimbecker and Luigi Agostini have spent two days at Auditorium Chiti of Istituto Musicale Mascagni testing the resident X-spat boX2 24 speakers system with a lot of soundscape and musical compositions created in the last years by the Canadian composer. From the meeting have originated a lot of new ideas and possibilities that will produce events and artistic creations involving the Heimbecker's Turbulence System and X-spat boX2.


In the picture, from left to right, Simone Cercignani (Senior Software Engineer at A&G), Steve Heimbecker of Qube Assemblage of Art in Motion, Luigi of A&G and Stefano Agostini, the Director of Istituto Musicale Mascagni.

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