The third NIME contribution from the fourMs lab this year was the paper: The ‘Virtualmonium’: an instrument for classical sound diffusion over a virtual loudspeaker orchestra Paper [PDF] Soundfiles Despite increasingly accessible and user-friendly multi-channel compositional tools, many composers still choose stereo formats for their work, where the compositional process is allied to diffusion performance over a ‘classical’ loudspeaker orchestra. Although such orchestras remain common within UK institutions as well as in France, they are in decline in the rest of the world.