Spatial Audio

Catalog description

This course focuses on the relationship between sound and space from a scientific and artistic perspective. It reviews the physiological and psychacoustic foundations of spatial hearing, as well as of stereophonic recording and production techniques. Other major topics include: impulse responses, binaural sound reproduction, 5.1 and other surround sound formats, Ambisonics and other 3D sound spatialization techniques, microphone and loudspeaker arrays. Examples will be drawn from the history and current artistic practice of spatial audio.