Research At SARC
The multidisciplinary work at SARC evolves and expands as collaborations develop and with variations in our research community.
PhD Thesis
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Audio Engineering Seminars
A new series of Audio Engineering Seminars has commenced in 2018. The seminars, which will normally be held at SARC and are linked to the new cross-school BSc in Audio Engineering, are aimed at bringing together people at QUB and from the local industry & wider community interested in audio and related topics.
Research Projects
Virtual Reality Audio for Cyber Environments (VRACE)
Map a Voice
The Crunch Test
SARC_Immerse
Sounding Conflict
Humanising Algorithmic Listening
The Mozambique Case Study
NI Hospice Sound Gardens
Sounds of the City - Engaging Communities in Sonic Arts
Performance Without Barriers
Belfast Sound Map
Recomposing the City
Distributed Listening
The Soundscape Park Project
Translating Improvisation
Street Society: Innovative and Imaginative Approaches to Activate Specific Sites in Belfast

Research Project
Virtual Reality Audio for Cyber Environments (VRACE)
VRACE is a €4M project funded through the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Innovative Training Network (ITN) programme. It will establish a 48 months multidisciplinary training and research programme running focusing on the analysis, modelling and rendering of dynamic three-dimensional soundscapes for applications in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), delivered by nine cooperating European Universities and their industrial partners. A total of 15 Early Stage Researchers will be contracted for 36 months to conduct research at the various partner institutions.
QUB will lead one of the VRACE projects, entitled “Physics-Based Source Modelling with Time-Variant Parameters”, the research for which is conducted by the Systems & Sensors group within the School of Electronics Electrical Engineering. The ESR will be based at the Sonic Arts Research Centre and work towards the expected results of the project together with Dr Maarten van Walstijn and researchers of the University of Performing Arts Vienna. In addition to the individual scientific projects, the network pursues a dedicated training program for the ESRs in the various fields of expertise of the consortium partners, which includes active participation in workshops, conferences and outreach activities.
Website: http://vrace-etn.eu
ESR Job Application Page: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/400308
Academic Consortium Partners:
- University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna AT (Project Coordinators)
- Technische Universität Wien (TUW), Vienna, AT
- Hochschule füe Musik Detmold (HfM), Detmold, DE
- Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TUe), Eindhoven, NL
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, FR
- Queen’s University of Belfast (QUB), Belfast, UK
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Leuven, BE
- Aalto University (AALTO), Helsinki, FI
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH), Hannover, DE
Industrial Consortium Partners:
- Mueller-BBM GmbH (BBM), Munich, DE
- Siemens Industry Soft-ware NV (SISW), Leuven, BE
- Sennheiser Electronic GmbH & Co. KG (SENN), Hannover, DE
- Facebook Reality Labs / Oculus VR, LLC (OCULUS), Seattle, US
- Centre d’etudes et d’expertise sur les risques l’environnement (CEREMA), Paris, FR
- SYOS, Paris, FR
- ARTIM, Gänserndorf, AT
- IESTA, Vienna, AT