As Stefan writes, music is the base for ambisonics and at the moment the only use I make of it.
I record mostly church choir and some jazz music with my core-sound mic and currently a Tascam DR-680. So I kind of took the application of ambisonics to music so natural that I missed to include it in the list :-). The main reason for writing my call to arms :-) is that I hope that Ambisonics does not stay as a golden nugget to be found only by academic students. I think there is at least a few facts about how our brain experience sound that can be better used than they currently are, and now the technology at last is here for a reasonable cost to assist us in exploring this. - Having the sound image from a recording being "fixed" in direction when listening to earphones can convince our brains that the sound is NOT in our head. - The addition of a coordinated view for our eyes makes the even sound much convincing as located outside of the head and assists in fixating the sound source. That is why I for example want to test if a spherical still panorama I have taken with a mobile phone camera combined with a foa Ambisonic recording is better than just a fixed UHJ stereo sound. That is when played back with a head tracker controlling the binaural decoding direction and the panorama view direction. I have had a technical interest in sound technology since the middle of the 60's in the beginning mostly from a conventional HiFi replay angle. It is only in the latest decades I have understood and read up about psychoacoustics as is really important for how to experience real HiFi. I got my core-sound mic in 2007 and after having a number of PC based devices for recording, I now have the DR-680. Recording, HiFi, electronics and Ambisonics is my hobby, work is spent with Internet security and IP networks which I have been doing since the beginning of the 80's :-) A full height ambisonic playback rig (2+6+2 speakers) is not something my wife likes to have in our apartment, and it is not really very portable that is why I looking in to binaural head tracked technology. Best Regards Bo-Erik Sandholm Stockholm Sweden -----Original Message----- From: Sursound [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Stefan Schreiber Sent: den 3 november 2014 20:21 To: kanka...@alivecinema.org; Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] The "BUCKET LIST" for Ambisonics? - or only how to proceed with Head tracked Binaural listening directivity control ? Kan Kaban wrote: >So, Google & games will became the main goals of all this years of >research & resources invested on Ambisonics?. > > If I can speak for Bo-Erik and actually for me too :-) , there will be Ambisonics applications for music. Nevertheless, I fully agree that after so many years of research and papers we urgently need more real-world applications of Ambisonics. This is where Bo-Erik comes in. (And actually he is recording with a sound mike.) Therefore, I can't see any problems in his approach, which seems to be < balanced >. Bo-Erik is just offering a few additional and for my "taste" creative applications in the Internet, game, "mobile" and VR areas - as insignificant as they might seem... O:-) Best, Stefan >On 11/3/14, 6:33 AM, Bo-Erik Sandholm wrote: > > >>There is intense activity going on with Picture and Video applications for >>watching with Direction of view control! >> - Games - a few use Ambisonics for creation of sound. >> - Google Streetview >> - DIY Spherical panoramas - Included in android phones now! >> - Spherical Video Blogs >> - VR Viewers - for example Oculus Rift. >> >>Is this the "Ambisonic Bucket List"? >> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
