Benjamin Anderson
30 April 2023
If I haven't seen you recently, you might not know that I'm spending the semester in Hamburg. I'm doing a PhD exchange at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg which has an amazing multimedia composition department, as well as performing the synth part in Cat Hope's opera Speechless! So far it's been very busy, jumping straight into Speechless rehearsals as well as setting up my life here and dealing with all the paperwork that comes with moving to Germany (even just for a few months). I'm cooking up
The last couple of months have been really busy. In addition to preparing to start my PhD, I’ve been working on a commission from RMIT and City of Melbourne for RMIT’s Black Box room – a 24.2 multichannel 3D speaker system. This is really my first time working in multichannel, and having 24 speakers in a 3D layout available to me is hugely different to making music in stereo. I researched Ambisonic sound, which is the technology used mainly for reproducing sound captured with an Ambisonic microphone or crea
Benjamin Anderson