Multi Channel Audio Links

J http://www.meridian-audio.com/ara/multips3.pdf Tutorial introduction to perception-and-multi channel audio by J.Robert Stuart.

J Good background white paper (3 parts) on multichannel audio by Floyd E. Toole, vice president of Harman Audio:-

http://www.infinitysystems.com/home_audio/whitepapers/inf-rooms_1.pdf - Part 1 - How many loudspeakers? What kind? Where do I put them?

http://www.infinitysystems.com/home_audio/whitepapers/inf-rooms_2.pdf Part 2 - Making a good loudspeaker – Imaging, space and great sound in rooms.

http://www.infinitysystems.com/home_audio/whitepapers/inf-rooms_3.pdf Part 3 - Getting the Bass Right

http://www.infinitysystems.com/home_audio/technology.asp -links to other white papers by same author(s)

http://www.infinitysystems.com/homeaudio/products/glossary/glossary.asp -basic glossary of audio-related terms

http://www.mtsu.edu/~dsmitche/rim456/3D_Sound_Links.html 3 Dimensional Sound Links

http://www.studiocovers.com/articles15.htm Links to articles on acoustics and studio treatments, including home studio-on-a-budget.

J http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~wareing/3daudio.htm -Audio and Three Dimensional Sound Links. Regarded by many as the best starting-off point for web-searching the topic of artificial spatial sound.

http://hsv.com/scitech/audio/index.htm . The Virtual Times, Audio Section -Links “All” of the internet sites and newsgroups dealing with Audio and/or Acoustics (good but needs updating)

http://www.ht-audio.com/audio.htm -recently updated (mid2002).

http://www.omg.unb.ca/~mleese/ ..or:

http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/mustech/3d_audio/ambsfaq.htm#1 (mirror site in uk) Martin Leese’s authoritative FAQ site on Ambisonic surround sound. Good basic explanations and extensive links.

http://www.wendycarlos.com/gosurround.html

Adventures in Surround Sound, from 7.2 to Quad (personal and historical notes, basics, and acoustic realities often forgotten)
The website of music pioneer Wendy Carlos including essays which throw some light on what happened to Quadrophonics and what’s happening today; substantially different perspective on surround matters.

J http://www.howstuffworks.com/movie-sound2.htm Very simple, straightforward explanations of various film sound surround formats.

Jhttp://www.ambisonic.net/ Excellent way into ambisonics, with extensive links and is updated regularly.

http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/mustech/3d_audio/ambis2.htm mirrors ambisonic.net, and is a centre for ongoing research into ambisonics.

http://www.muse.demon.co.uk/3daudio.html introducing “2nd order” ambisonics

http://mcgriffy.com/audio/ambisonic/transcoder/ -Ambisonics decoder for Protools (horizontal only, as yet)

http://www.geocities.com/ambinutter/Integrex.pdf How to build analogue decoders –the original.

http://www.sospubs.co.uk/sos/oct01/articles/surroundsound3.asp SURROUND SOUND EXPLAINED * PART 3 Though a commercial failure in the 1970s, the Ambisonics surround sound system was technically flawless, and survives to this day -- indeed, today it is more relevant than ever. Hugh Robjohns unravels the mysteries of the B-format...

http://www.northwestern.edu/musicschool/classes/3D/pages/sndPrmGK.html A 3-D sound primer by Gary Kendall of Northwestern University

http://www.airjohn.com/~surround

tons of links to surround-sites and some articles about surround-related topics.

Jhttp://olias.arc.nasa.gov/ihh/spatial/papers/pdfs_db/Begault_2000_3d_Sound_Multimedia.pdf Durand Begault’s entire book on the subject of virtual audio 3-d

Jhttp://www.moultonlabs.com/articles.htm Excellent site for Dave Moulton’s articles on sound and sound engineering matters

http://www.mtsu.edu/~dsmitche/rim458/materials/Aes_105.html - Toward an Aesthetic in Mixing for Multi-channel Music Presentation

http://www.aes.org/technical/documents/AESTD1001.pdf Important standardising recommendations of AES technical committee on 5.1 usage

http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/~wlm/iwhit.html Does KEMAR Sleep in a Procrustean Bed? By William Martens

http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/~wlm/terms.html Spatial Audio Terminology

http://mediatheque.ircam.fr/articles/textes/Jot96a/ Synthesizing Three-Dimensional Sound Scenes in Audio or Multimedia Production and Interactive Human-Computer Interfaces

Jean-Marc Jot -5th International Conference: Interface to Real & Virtual Worlds, Montpellier, France, Mai 1996
Copyright © Ircam - Centre Georges-Pompidou 1996

http://www.sfu.ca/sonic-studio/handbook/index.html HANDBOOK FOR ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY -Barry Truax, editor. Second Edition, 1999

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/richard_brice/franci.htm stereo just won’t die!

http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/Diffusion/diffindex.htm A magazine about sound diffusion /electroacoustics!

Links pages

http://www.philomel.com/sites.html small site, good general sound links

http://www.mtsu.edu/~dsmitche/rim456/3D_Sound_Links.html another good links site

Physics of sound:

http://www.silcom.com/~aludwig/Physics/Main/Physics_of_sound.html#Physics_content

http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/ very readable site on acoustics, with educational (but accurate) animations of acoustic phenomena

http://hypertextbook.com/physics/waves/sound/ under construction, but excellent resource, with good links

Binaural hearing/Display

http://www.noogenesis.com/binaural/binaural.html Duen Hsi Yen's Binaural, 3D, Holographic Sound Page!

http://neuro.bio.tu-darmstadt.de/langner/tinnitus-html/english/Tinnitus_Beispiele.htm test your high frequency hearing
Music and Events Management Links:-

http://www.leeandthompson.com/MusicGuide/index.html -Lee & Thompson is a leading media and entertainment law firm and represents some of the biggest-name artists, including the Spice Girls, Simply Red, Massive Attack and new client Richard Ashcroft This clients guide to music industry agreements is comprehensive and up to date (2002)

http://musicyellowpages.com/ USA yellow pages for music industry

http://www.musicianmag.com/musicianmag/index.jsp -MUSICIAN'S GUIDE TO TOURING & PROMOTION. Online presence of USA mag, with 5000 links, etc., good features and articles.

http://www.motetmusic.co.uk/index.html -“Motet - the UK's best music resource site”– well they would say that- large resource of music related links

http://www.funktion-one.com/home.htm Funktion One are one of the most respected event P.A designers. They also have experience with large-scale use of ambisonics.

http://www.curveaudio.net/index.htm A company run by sound recordists! – specialising in ambisonic soundscape production and installations for museums and visitor attractions

http://www.avatar.com.au/domes/PMPS.html homepage of Australian company who make domes – they have some with ambisonic sound systems in.

http://www.cloudbass.com/Site/events/modulus/splash.html Derby-based 360 -degree sound and vision portable facility

Technical Implementations:

http://www.1limited.com/tech/sp/ “digital sound projector” – single source multichannel audio projector

http://www.emfi.net/panphonics/multimedia.html elctrostatic-type flat panel but new in many respects. 1st paper was @ the AES16 conference in Finland

http://www.aes.org/publications/preprints/lists/110.cfm list of AES110 preprints relevant to developments in sound technology

http://www.sc-server1.bt.com/bttj/archive.htm BT’s work on spatial audio for telepresence

http://www.sc-server1.bt.com/bttj/vol17no1/04.pdf similar to above

Audio Illusions.

http://www.sandlotscience.com/Ambiguous/Ambiguous_frm.htm familiar Shephard ever-ascending (or descending) scale illusion, but you can play the java applet with the mouse

http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/dwmdir/da.html brief description of “McGurk effect”

http://www.noah.org/science/audio_paradox/

three interesting audio paradoxes

http://www.philomel.com/description.html#mysterious several of Diana Deutsch’s famous auditory illusions available online

http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/labs/auditory/bregmancd.html#top sample (audio) demonstrations of auditory scene analysis

http://pages.wooster.edu/jneuhoff/PBR-Doppler.pdf Doppler is not what you think it is…

Audio-visual illusions and interactions

http://mag.bidmc.harvard.edu/pdf/ShamsKamitaniCogBrainRes02.pdf a beep and a flash presented together= fine, but multiple beeps produce the illusion of multiple flashes. Cognitive science paper (bit heavy)

http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~book/MATCpages/chap.4/chap4.snd/forann.aiff.mp3 Sound sample: ever-ascending mp3 -For Ann (rising), by James Tenney. Tenney is an important computer music composer and pioneer who worked at Bell Laboratories with Roger Shepard in the early 1960s.

Audio Art:

http://www.emf.org/artists/neuhaus99/

http://www.emf.org/index.html

http://kalerne.free.fr/index2.html interesting things you can do by throwing away the rule book

Psychology of hearing

http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/~zahorik/papers/asa02b.pdf (not for citation without permission) – one of a series of papers by respected researcher; this one deals with distance perception, one of the most important ingredients of spatial perception

http://www.ambiophonics.org/ Ralph Glasgal’s idiosyncratic ambiophonics site has readable sections on the psychoacoustics. See also http://www.ambiophonics.org/blumlein_conspiracy.htm

http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~duda/Duda.Research.frameset.html Sound Localization Research Richard Duda – excellent resource concerning both the analysis and synthesis of spatial sound. Also: http://www-engr.sjsu.edu/~knapp/HCIROD3D/3D_home.htm - tutorials.

http://www.parmly.luc.edu/parmly/clifton.html Clifton effect and precedence effect

http://www.parmly.luc.edu/parmly/franssen.html Franssen effect

http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/labs/auditory/laboratory.html Auditory Scene Analysis

http://www.auditory.org/ Homepage for the Auditory list; valuable technical resource

http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~dmh8/AcPsych/acpsyc.htm Excellent online book, “Acoustics and psychoacoustics” by David M Howard and James AS Angus

http://online.sfsu.edu/~psych200/unit6/67.htm Simple spatial hearing tutorial -undergrad / A-level.

http://www.speech.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/lectures/C526.htm hearing Third year Hearing course

http://www.speech.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/lectures/C526/hearing4.pdf binaural hearing models

Distance perception:

http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/~zahorik/papers/asa02b.pdf - see above.

http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/~zahorik/papers/dist.html Auditory Distance Perception: A Literature Review^*Pavel Zahorik

http://www.icad.org/websiteV2.0/Conferences/ICAD2002/proceedings/54_Zahorik.pdf AUDITORY DISPLAY OF SOUND SOURCE DISTANCE Pavel Zahorik

http://www.icad.org/websiteV2.0/Conferences/ICAD2002/proceedings/08_DensilCabrera2.pdf AUDITORY DISTANCE PERCEPTION OF SPEECH IN THE PRESENCE OF NOISE Densil Cabrera and David Gilfillan

http://www.afrlhorizons.com/Briefs/0012/HE0001.html -Auditory Distance Perception of Speech: The Influence of Production Level

An experiment that examines the perceived distance of speech samples as a function of the actual production level across the entire range of speech.

http://www.unc.edu/~rhwiley/pdfs/NaguibWiley2002.pdf REVIEW

Estimating the distance to a source of sound: mechanisms and adaptations for long-range communication

MARC NAGUIB* & R. HAVEN WILEY†

Hearing overviews

http://library.thinkquest.org/19537/Ear.html simple but enjoyable interactive site

http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/Courses/ESM172a/FILES172A/Week3.htm pertinent to theories of music perception; undergrad level.

http://www.aip.org/pt/nov99/locsound.html Excellent and straight forward explanation of basic spatial hearing theories.

http://web.mit.edu/hst.723/www/ThemePapers/Plasticity/WightmanKistler98.pdf -Of vulcan ears, human ears and earprints

http://www.biols.susx.ac.uk/home/Chris_Darwin/Perception/Lecture_Notes/Hearing_Index.html

Signal processing for spatial sound.

http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/GlobalJOSIndex.html useful index for subject headings – quite exhaustive.

http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/index.html#searchform Homepage of Julius Orion Smith, author of the above resource an extensive guide to audio signal processing material at Stanford, -primarily a resource for M.Sc. material

http://www.patenworks.com/links/audio.asp Iain Paterson-Stephen’s links page – good resource for Derby students

http://ff123.net/index.html Discussion of Audio Compression -links to listening tests, for various codecs

http://www.cnl.salk.edu/~tewon/Blind/blind_audio.html Blind Source Separation of recorded speech and music signals. – Cocktail party effect: “We present methods to separate blindly mixed signals recorded in a room. The learning algorithm is based on the information maximization in a single layer neural network”

Auditory Displays:

http://www.icad.org/

http://pages.wooster.edu/jneuhoff/index.htm perception - “real world” items.

http://www.soundalert.co.uk/ University of Leeds spin-off company specialising in research into the effectiveness of spatial audio as display medium

http://www.well.com/user/smalin/samindex.html Interesting site by sound enthusiast – very varied links as well as short essay on audification of data traffic.

Virtual Reality:

http://www.presence-research.org/ Presence-Research.org aims to offer up-to-date and relevant information and resources on (tele-)presence, i.e. the subjective experience of 'being there' in mediated environments

http://etrij.etri.re.kr/etrij/pdfdata/18-01-04.pdf “Realistic Audio Teleconferencing using Binaural

and Auralization Techniques” paper

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/pai/papers/KlPaKr00.pdf Perception of Material from Contact Sounds – relevant to sound synthesis in VR

Books on pertinent subjects;

http://hallphysic.com/physics/637.shtml lists several seminal audio-related books

http://www.stereosoundbook.com/index.html Definitive handbook on stereo matters, including plenty of psychoacoustics.

Sound synthesis and similar resources:

http://linux-sound.org/swss.html huge list of synthesis links.

http://profs.sci.univr.it/~dafx/Final-Papers/pdf/Chowning.pdf digital sound synthesis, acoustics, and perception: a rich Intersection

http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~mkc/mitpress/node2.html timbre and its components; relevant to synthesis.

, Discrete-Time Modelling of Brass and Reed woodwind Instruments with Application to Musical Sound Synthesis, Maarten van Walstijn Faculty of Music, University of Edinburgh, June 2002

Acoustics and Signal Processing Techniques for Physical Modeling of Brass Instruments, David P. Berners Ph.D. thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University (CCRMA), June 1999

http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/tonehole/ This paper presents a digital waveguide woodwind instrument tonehole implementation which, in a single model, characterizes all states of the hole from open to closed Gary P. Scavone (gary@ccrma.stanford.edu)
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
Department of Music, Stanford University

http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pmupd/Strings.html discussion of modelling strings

Research institutions, and interesting developments:

http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ika/framu/english/framu/research/resea.htm

Local news:

http://www.framleyexaminer.com/ -vital for contextual research