Ultimate Spatial Audio Index

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The Ultimate Spatial Audio Index is a resource for spatial audio as it relates to the Internet, multimedia and virtual reality. If you know of any other links that can be added, please contact me.
Last Updated 6/30/98

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Table of Contents

Audio Files

• Binaural Demos
• Duen Hsi Yen's Binaural, 3D, Holographic Sound Page
• Holophonic Samples
• Intel RSX Demos
• Lake DSP Audio Demonstrations
• Sensura Sound Samples
• Sights and Sounds of SRS Labs

Music

• The Binaural Source
• Tchad Blake's Binaural Recordings
• Cyborgasm
• Cyborgasm2
• Interactive Sound Installation
• Netfield an Internet Sound Environment
• Virtual Audio Sampler

Companies

• A3D.com
• Aureal
• CATT-Acoustic
• Diamond Multimedia Systems
• Headspace
• Holophonics
• Imprint
• Intel Corp. Realistic Sound Experience (RSX) for the Internet
• Lake DSP
• Level Control Systems
• MuscleFish
• NuReality
• Paradigm Simulations Inc.
• QSound
• Reality by Design
• Roland Corporation RSS-10 Sound Space Processor Product Information
• Sensaura
• Sony IMAX Theatre
• Spatializer Audio Laboratories
• SRS Labs
• VSI Visual Synthesis Incorporated
• Waves, Inc.

Research

• 3D Sound Imaging for Immersive Environment Simulation at Trinity College, Dublin
• 3D Virtual Sound Project at Stanford University
• The AA-Lab (The Auralization and Acoustics Laboratory) at the Naval Postgraduate School
• Ambisonic Surround Sound
• Army Research Laboratory
• Audio/Music Engineering at University of Miami
• CCRMA- Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University
  • Dynamic Spatial Sound Movement Toolkit
• CNMAT- Center For New Music and Audio Technologies at University of California, Berkeley
• DIVA- DIgital Virtual Acoustics
• HDRL- Hearing Development Research Laboratory
• Human Interface Technology (HIT) Lab at University of Washington
• HUT Acoustics Lab
• Institute of Communication Acoustics at Ruhr-University Bochum
• Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) at the University of Southampton
• Interval Research
• IRCAM
  • Le Spatialisateur
• The Mercator Project at Sun Microsystems Laboratories
• MIT Media Lab: Machine Listening Group
• NASA: Auditory Science and Technology
  • 3-D Audio Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System
  • Localization in Reflective Environments
  • Measurement of Personalized HRTFs
  • The Role of Dynamic Information in Virtual Acoustic Displays
  • Terminal Area Productivity (TAP) Program -- Taxi Navigation and Situation Awareness (T-NASA) System: 3-D Audio Ground Collision Avoidance System (GCAS) & Navigation System
• SCCP Virtual Reality SOUND at University of Aizu
• Simulations (Auditory Virtual Space) at the Parmly Hearing Institute
• Sound Localization Research at San Jose University
• Spatial Audio Generator Web Page -- a Java applet under development that spatializes sound supplied over the Internet
• Spatial Audio Work at Georgia Tech
• Spatial Hearing with Complex Stimuli at UC Berkeley
• Spatialized Audio at New York University
• The WORLDSONG Project

VRML

• Audio in VRML by David Engberg
• At Intel:
• VRML 2.0 Browsers with 3D Sound
  • Community Passage by Sony
  • Cosmoplayer by SGI
  • Worldview by Intervista
• VRML97 Spec: AudioClip Node
• VRML97 Spec: Sound Node
• VRML Audio Extensions by William Martens
• VRML Audio Tutorial

Conferences

• The Third International Workshop on Human Interface Technology at the University of Aizu
• International Computer Music Conference 1996
• International Computer Music Conference 1998
• ICAD International Conference on Auditory Display

Mailing Lists

• auditory@vm1.mcgill.ca- focuses on auditory perception research. To subscribe, send email to owner-auditory@vm1.mcgill.ca
• ICAD Mailing List- to subscribe, send email to icad-request@santafe.edu
• sound@acm.org- focuses on the computation of sound. To subscribe, send email to sound-request@acm.org

Newsgroups

• comp.dsp
• comp.lang.vrml
• comp.music.research
• sci.virtual-worlds

Organizations/Societies

• Audio Engineering Society
• Interactive Audio Special Interest Group- part of the MIDI Manufacturing Association (MMA) that focuses on 3D audio
• SIGSOUND a Special Interest Group of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) that focuses on techincal issues on sound software and hardware

People

• Shigeaki Aoki
• Durand R. Begault
• Jens Blauert
• Phil Brown
• Dr. Richard Duda
• Tom Erbe
• Angelo Farina
• Scott Foster
• Ari Hollander
• Jyri Huopaniemi
• Eugene L.Jhong
• Gary Kendall
• William Martens
• Keith Martin
• Elizabeth Mynatt
• Malcolm Slaney
• Russell Storms
• Mikio Tohyama
• Barry Vercoe
• Elizabeth Wenzel

FAQs

• DSP FAQ
• Multidimensional and surround sound systems

Links

• 3D Audio Immersion
• 3DSoundSurge
• Audio and Three Dimenisional Sound Links
• Aureality
• Euphonia (French)
• Spatial Sound Links

Literature

• 3D Sound for Virtual Reality and Multimedia by Durand Begault
• Binaural and Spatial Hearing in Real and Virtual Environments
  Edited by Robert Gilkey and Timothy R. Anderson
  ISBN: 0-8058-1654-2
  approx. 816pp. $89.95
  
• Spatial Hearing: The Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization: Revised Edition
  by Jens Blauert
  The MIT Press, Cambridge Mass.
  ISBN: 0-262-02413-6
  480 pp. 215 illus.
  $35.00 (cloth)
  
  • Book Review
• Bibliography for the "IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing", 1980-1989
• DIVA - DIgital Virtual Acoustics Publications
• ICAD- Related Books and Other Publications
• Online Publications
  • 3-D Audio for HCI by Richard Duda
  • Auditory Perception at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Cellular Approach for Modeling Room Acoustics:A Framework for Implementations Based on the Ray Tracing Algorithm by Navdeep S. Dhillon
  • A Computational Model of the Precedence Effect and Sound Localization in Reverberant Environment by Jie Huang
  • Digital Ear Technology for 3D Positional Audio White Paper by Sensura, Inc.
  • Design and Implementation of an Auralization System with a Spectrum-Based Temporal Processing Optimization by Frank Filipanits Jr.
  • An Exploration of Virtual Auditory Shape Perception by Ari J. Hollander
  • HDRL Spatial Hearing Abstracts
  • Lexicon of Auditory Display
  • Modeling the Elevation Characteristics of the Head Related Impulse Response (HRIR) by Phil Brown (380K .pdf file)
  • NPSNET-3D Sound Server: An Effective Use of the Auditory Channel by Russell Storms (442k .ps file)
  • Spatial Sound: An Overview by Kimmo Vennonen
  • Spatial Sound at SIGGRAPH: Is It 3D? by William Martens
  • Syncronized Structured Sound: Real-Time 3-Dimensional Audio Rendering by Araz Inguilizian
  • Synthesizing Three-Dimensional Sound Scenes in Audio or Multimedia Production and Interactive Human-Computer Interfaces by Jean-Marc Jot
  • Technical Reports from MIT Listening Group (.ps files)
  • Technologies for Three Dimensional Sound Presentation Issues in Subjective Evaluation of the Spatial Image by Elizabeth A. Cohen, PH.D
  • Three Dimensional Sound for Data Presentation in a Virtual Reality Environment by Luis F. Tavera (308K .ps file)
  • Unexamined Assumptions in the Commercialization of 3D Audio: Does KEMAR Sleep in a Procrustean Bed? by William Martens
• Sound Localization Bibliography
• Virtual Audio Bibliography at HITLab

Journals

• Applied Acoustics
• Computer Music Journal
• IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing
• Leonardo Music Journal
• Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments- has occasional audio papers

Tutorials

• "The Sonic CD-ROM for Desktop Audio Production"
  Author: Durand R. Begault
  Publisher: Academic Press Professional
  ISBN 0-12-084738-8 $44.95
  Mac and PC version on one disc
  Phone Order: 1-800-321-5068
  

Freeware/Shareware

• SoundHack
  for Macintosh. Includes binaural filter from HRTFs of Durand Begault.
• Virtual Sonic Space for SGI

Hardware

• Acoustetron II Audio Server from Crystal River Engineering (No Longer Available)
• AMES Spatial Auditory Display (ASAD)
• Binaural Microphones
  • Build your own biaural microphones
  • Core Sound Binaural Microphones
  • Sound Professional Binaural Mics
  • Sonic Studios DSM(tm) Stereo Microphones
• Lake DSP hardware
• MonsterSound from Diamond Multimedia
• Neumann KU 100 Binaural Head
• Soundstorm 3D by Reality by Design
• Spatializer hardware
• QSound hardware

Software

• Aurora by Angelo Farina
• Audio and Music Applications for Silicon Graphics Systems
• AudioWorks2 from Paradigm Simulations Inc.
• Lake DSP software
• QSound plug-in software
• PT3D plug-in from Spatializer Audio Laboratories
• Le Spatialisateur from IRCAM
• TrueVerb v1.1 Reverb/Distance, Virtual Space Processor from Waves, Inc.