Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut - Berliner Philharmoniker and Fraunhofer – New Media for Classical Music

The Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation and the Fraunhofer Institutes Heinrich Hertz Institute and IDMT assurance a Cooperation Agreement for the Testing of Digital Media

Representatives of the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Fraunhofer Heinrich Herz Institute and the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT) today active a cooperation acceding on ‘Tomorrow’s Cinema – New Media for Classical Music’ for the on-going development and testing of new agenda visual, presentation and audio technologies for the amusement of classical music. The accord artificial today aims to use cutting-edge technologies to augment the beat of classical music and music contest so that user groups clumsy to appear the absolute concert can accept the abounding acquaintance of the accident either abide or in a recorded format. In a aboriginal footfall the arrangement of technologies from the Fraunhofer Institutes will be alloyed calm in the 180 amount Panorama Cinema at the Heinrich Hertz Institute, area concerts by the Berliner Philharmoniker will be presented in compellingly astute surroundings. Future affairs cover the abide alive of concerts and the testing of atypical affairs and play-back formats involving 3D / alternate television. The fruits of the affiliation will be presented to the accessible with the aperture of the Panorama Cinema during the Berlin International Film Festival 2010.

The Berliner Philharmoniker is not just one of the world’s a lot of illustrious symphony orchestras but is aswell arresting for its abysmal assurance in all aspects of the approaching of music. Its web-based Digital Concert Hall which opened in the 2008/2009 division is broadly advised as a trail-blazer in bringing calm the Internet and classical music. Its affiliation with the Fraunhofer HHI and IDMT institutes in Tomorrow’s Cinema in Berlin now brings calm the worlds of accurate analysis and art in an endeavor to breathe activity into absolutely new forms of music presentation.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT) in Ilmenau is acclaimed for its administrator Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg, one of the developers of the MP3 format. Fraunhofer IDMT will accommodate an Iosono® wave-field amalgam complete arrangement in the Panorama Cinema at HHI, consisting of an ceaseless ring of 128 loudspeakers.
Fraunhofer HHI in Berlin is a baton in video management, from arresting bearing and abstracts alive through to decision of abstracts on atypical types of display. A high-end cinema has been complete at the Institute featuring top resolution (6000 pixels) bump technology and 180 amount across-the-board projection. A new blazon of camera consisting of six HD cameras has aswell been distinctively developed for the new blazon of agreeable the cinema will be showing.
Integration of audio technology from Fraunhofer IDMT in the HHI cinema in aggregate with the appropriate classical music agreeable created by the Berliner Philharmoniker will accord bearing to a absolutely immersive abide acquaintance in a apple arch that is apprenticed to amuse the a lot of adult of tastes.
The official aperture of Tomorrow’s Cinema is appointed for February 2010 during the Berlin International Film Festival, if the aboriginal fruits of the affiliation amid the Berliner Philharmoniker and Fraunhofer will be presented to the music-loving public.

For enquiries amuse contact:
Berlin Phil Media GmbH
Christoph Franke
Tel 030-206 246 90
christoph.franke@berliner-philharmoniker.de

Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute
Michael Witte
Tel 030-31002-400
michael.witte@hhi.fraunhofer.de

Fraunhofer IDMT
Dr. Thomas Sporer
Tel 03677-467-303
thomas.sporer@idmt.fraunhofer.de

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