[Sursound] Symposium / Festival in The Hague next week

[Justin Bennett]

Dear SurSounders,

If any of you are in the area this may be interesting to you.
There are some ambisonics hidden among the pieces
and there's a demo of a "dynamic binaural synthesis" system
which has just been installed at Sonology (head tracking etc)
- re recent discussions about head movements, binaural recording etc.!!

for the flyer...

http://sonology.org/NL/SOmain.html

best wishes, Justin


Justin Bennett

jus...@justinbennett.nl

www.justinbennett.nl



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[Sursound] An April's Fool...

[Daniel Courville]

... that could be actually useful:




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Re: [Sursound] Anthropometrics, Loudspeakers, & Vision

[Eric Carmichel]

 as our ability to choose information deemed important to the task at 
hand. We do learn from experience what is “true” or “correct” and is why we can 
learn to localize with fake pinnae or even develop localization ability with 
ONE ear (animal research supports this). Cochlear implant recipients need time, 
too, to make use of their “new” sense of hearing.

Another area I would be interested in investigating is time-to-contact as it 
applies to hearing (Gibson was mostly involved with
 vision), and how binaural implantation might improve a listeners sense of 
safety in “three dimensional” space where there are multiple, moving, sound 
sources. Such studies under headphones are very realistic. As you wrote, “One 
of the characteristics in Gibson’s ecological approach that has been adopted by 
the VR field is the idea that perceptions are confirmed as true through 
‘successful action in the environment’. Tilting one’s head can be considered 
action in the environment, and if the spatiality of the sounds heard correlate 
then that action can be considered successful. So head movements help to 
confirm that what is being perceived is correct.” I very much agree with what 
you wrote. Adding to this, avoiding collision is certainly a more successful 
action than identifying location to the nearest nth of a degree.

Thanks for taking time to read. I always look forward to the Sursound Digest 
regardless of topic.
Best always,
Eric C.
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[Sursound] A quick Post Scriptum (yep, I goofed)

[Eric Carmichel]

Referring to my last post (moments ago) the following paragraph is in error.


Another area I would be interested in investigating is time-to-contact as it 
applies to hearing (Gibson was mostly involved with vision), and how binaural 
implantation might improve a listeners sense of safety in “three dimensional” 
space where there are multiple, moving, sound sources. Such studies under 
headphones are very realistic. As you wrote, “One of the characteristics in 
Gibson’s ecological approach that has been adopted by the VR field is the idea 
that perceptions are confirmed as true through ‘successful action in the 
environment’. Tilting one’s head can be considered action in the environment, 
and if the spatiality of the sounds heard correlate then that action can be 
considered successful. So head movements help to confirm that what is being 
perceived is correct.” I very much agree with what you wrote. Adding to this, 
avoiding collision is certainly a more successful action than identifying 
location to the nearest nth of a
 degree.

What I meant to say was, "Such studies under headphones are NOT very realistic."

A surround of speakers still rules.
Eric C.
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