The Poème Électronique in the Philips Pavilion at the World Fair of Brussels 1958 was a unique experience, the very first multimedia project to involve a sense of the total experience of vision and sound. Realized by three relevant personalities of contemporary culture, Le Corbusier (conception after Kalff, coordination and visual show), Varèse (organized spatial sound delivered over 350 loudsp...

Topic of this paper is an interactive sound reproduction system to create virtual sonic environments and visual spaces, called Virtual Audio Reproduction Engine for Spatial Environments (VARESE). Using VARESE, Edgard Varèse’s Poème électronique was recreated within a virtual Philips Pavilion. The system draws on binaural sound reproduction principles including spatialization techniques based on...

This paper outlines a demonstration of the reconstruction of the Poème électronique experience using virtual reality and binaural audio techniques. Here we discuss the genesis of the project, the search for original material, discovery of clues for the reconstruction of several sections of the artwork and the creation of the VR/binaural installation within the context of an interactive exhibition.