UC3M participates in the Madrid es Ciencia Fair 2022

The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) will carry out scientific outreach activities at the 11th Madrid esCiencia Fair, which is being held in Hall 14 of IFEMA, as part of Education Week 2022. These activities aim to bring together some of the R&D&I work carried out at the University in various scientific and technological fields, such as communication, computer science and sound engineering, in an enjoyable way. On Wednesday, 2nd of March, from 10am to 3pm at the UC3M stand at this fair, attendees will be able to experience what the 3D music of the future will be like, testing how our brain works when listening to and locating three-dimensional spatial sound. "This is the basis of current virtual reality systems (related to audio systems) and of what is colloquially known as 8D music", explains the researcher responsible for this activity, Luis Antonio Azpicueta, from the UC3M Signal Theory and Communications Department. To do this, they will use binaural mannequins (which have two ears) that make live 3D sound recordings to later play through headphones and create an immersive sensation. In addition, audio rendering software will be used to show what "music of the future" will be like, with which users will be able to "move" the sound sources (musical instruments) in real time and arrange them however they want. During the afternoon shift at the University's stand, from 3pm to 8pm, attendees will be able to learn symmetric cryptography (data encryption and authentication techniques) through Crypto Go, an educational card game created by the researchers themselves.