Saturday was our last day and we could not resist to attend an entrepreneur event in San Francisco and learn directly from a local initiative at the heart of Silicon Valley.

Carlos kindly spent part of the Friday afternoon showing us the rest of CCRMA studios and preparing some demos in Ambisonics and multichannel in the Listening space.

Friday visit to Google Campus and the large Interactive Map at Google's Beta Visitor Centre in Mountain View.

Day 5 was a day including 2 visits and 3 demos. Our visit to Apple Park Visitor Centre was to get a sense of the attention to detail in the use of the Augmented Reality tool of the new AR Kit 2.

On Thursday, we finally found the time to discuss in greater depth some aspects of the EASTN-DC visit to Stanford in parallel to LAC19 (probably back to back).

Live game-audio with UE4: Ricardo Climent demonstrated one of his recent interactive compositions combining graphics, physics and audio engines. It will include Real, VR and Anthropomorphus AR models of Musical Instruments.

Maia (AR/VR): Ignacio Pecino demonstrated "Maia (VR/AR)" by creating a hyper-real virtual replica (1:1 scale) of a room at CCRMA, to construct 3D parallel worlds, where user-generated content is accurately localised.

It was an amazing opportunity to talk to Chris Chafe's students after performing / battling with Pipa player Shuxin Meng in class. This was part of Music 220A on the topic of Curves in Music, where some students also presented some pieces.

Ignacio Pecino, Artist in Residence 2017-21 at EASTN-DC Manchester fully measured and rendered the CCRMA Stage (including speakers!) for his demo "Maia (AR/VR)" - Towards a mixed-reality simulation framework for synchronised trans-real experiences –

Musical Duel Rehearsal: testing out ideas with fantastic Pipa player Shuxin Meng. I provide materials in advance to the musicians I battle | play together and rehearsal time should not be longer than 2-hour slots.

Next Generation Fun: Unreal Engine for composing live musical battles – by Ricardo Climent. | Maia (AR/VR): Towards a mixed-reality simulation framework for synchronised trans-real experiences – by Ignacio Pecino

We just rounded up a superb learning day by attending Prof. Ge Wang’s Music 256a / CS 476a Class. It included interesting discussions around his new book Artful Design and a Unity-Chuck demo by Jack Atherton, his course GTA.

Huge thanks to Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Associate Professor of Computational Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz for the meeting. We received great advice on the use of AI in game-like environments at the Expressive Intelligent Studio.

We have just landed at San Francisco Airport and we are heading on to Menlo Park, near Stanford University. We have some exciting work to do at CCRMA - Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics -

EASTN-DC: Celebrate innovations in digital media with concerts, installations, workshops, AR/VR and discussions with media industry partners from around Europe. Video Credits: Kieran Hanson (concept and design) and Valeria Luongo (footage)

‍Soda is a semi-modular electroacoustic instrument with several inputs and outputs, which enable interfacing with other audio devices (such as synths, rhythm machines, guitar pedals, etc.). Register via email: info@ljudmila.org COST: £35

All events are FREE (limited to availability), except for the three large-scale Surround Sound Dome concerts with the MANTIS system (concession prices)

“Magnetic Dance Glove” (MDG). The MDG is a wearable controller that is used by a dancer or other kind of performer to send movements of the hand that it is worn on wirelessly to a computer that participates as a node in the Magnetic Dance project.

With a month to go until our Festival of Digital Creativity, find out more about our first resident artist, Ignacio Pecino, and his work exploring virtual reality vs. augmented reality. Join us at 11:00 on 26th June for a demo!

Glad to announce our first Residency and collaboration with game-audio company specialised in location aware devices and founder of sonicmaps.org

Creative Europe Beneficiary Get- together - Manchester Monday, 25 September 2017 from 13:00 to 17:30 (BST) Location HOME 2 Tony Wilson Place M15 4FN Manchester United Kingdom

Time has come! Delighted to attend the launch of the EASTN-DC Network in Grenoble, meet partners in person and learn about the mechanics of this great Culture Europe Project