Stowaway City is an immersive audio experience that combines electroacoustic composition and storytelling with extended reality. The piece was designed to accommodate multiple listeners in a shared auditory virtual environment. Each listener, based on their tracked position and rotation in space, wirelessly receives an individual binaurally decoded sonic perspective via open-back headphones. The sounds and unfolding narrative are mapped to physical locations in the performance area, which are only revealed through exploration and physical movement. Spatial audio is simultaneously presented to all listeners via a spherical loudspeaker array that supplements the headphone audio, thus forming a hybrid listening environment. The work is presented as a conceptual and technical design paradigm for creative sonic application of the technology in this medium. The author outlines a set of strategies that were used to realize the composition and technical affordances of the system.

中文翻译：

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Stowaway City：在混合聆听环境中为多位听众提供身临其境的音频体验

Stowaway City 是一种身临其境的音频体验，它结合了电声作曲和讲故事与扩展现实。该作品旨在在共享的听觉虚拟环境中容纳多个听众。每个听众根据他们在空间中跟踪的位置和旋转，通过开放式耳机无线接收单独的双耳解码声音透视。声音和展开的叙述被映射到表演区域的物理位置，只有通过探索和身体运动才能揭示。空间音频通过补充耳机音频的球形扬声器阵列同时呈现给所有听众，从而形成混合聆听环境。这项工作是作为一种概念和技术设计范式呈现的，用于该技术在该媒体中的创造性声音应用。作者概述了一组用于实现系统组成和技术可供性的策略。