Interactive Acoustic Sound Field Reproduction with Web System for Gion Festival

In this study, we try to create a digital archive for festival music, which are called "Ohayashi" in Japanese, for the Yamahoko parade of the Gion festival in Kyoto, Japan. The festival music, which consists of Japanese traditional drums, flutes, bells, ambient noise, sounds of floats moving, and shouts during the parade, need to be reproduced to create the authentic atmosphere of the Gion festival. To reproduce a high-quality sound field, we recorded some festival music including these sounds in the Yamahoko parade. After that, we tried to reproduce the festival music using a web system linked to the map of a Yamahoko float to construct a more interactive acoustic sound field. This system reproduces the Ohayashi at particular positions along the route when the user clicks on any position of the float route.