This cooperative infrastructure research project of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Artistic Research Center and Department for Composition, Electroacoustics and Tonmeister_innen-Education) and the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences is funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) in cooperation with the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) of the EU.
The ÆSR Lab is a three-part, mobile and modular sound research laboratory at the interface of art and science, which as an infrastructure – with precise instrumentation and state-of-the-art technology – promotes interdisciplinary research and artistic design and helps to open up the development and testing of new technologies.
At mdw, the sub-project “ÆSR – sound projection laboratory” will be implemented in the years 2023–2026 under the direction of Thomas Grill. The system to be developed within the framework of research and teaching will enable new and unconventional forms of spatial acoustic design for musical composition and performance.