There has been a strong interest in theory and design of spherical microphone arrays in recent years due to their possible use in recording directional sounds for surround sound creation. The theory of such arrays is based on decomposition of sound fields to spherical harmonics which are the natural basis functions for valid sound fields over three dimensional space. However, due to physical si...

Procedural audio is sound as a process. Instead of thinking about nouns, we think of verbs, or the actions that cause sounds. Procedural sound is also a structural and reasoned, rather than purely sensible, approach to sound, in which behaviour supplants identity and we ask not what sound is, but what it does. This chapter follows the publication of Designing Sound (Farnell, 2008) in which I la...

In this paper, we discuss methods for digital filter design with application to 3-D sound. A review of existing filter design methods for binaural and transaural processing is presented. New methods that take into account the nonuniform frequency resolution of the human ear are explored. Listening tests have been performed to determine the subjective preference of different designs. 0 INTRODUCT...

Among sonic interaction design practices a rising interest is given to the use of the voice as a tool for producing fast and rough sketches. Goal of the EU project SkATVG (Sketching Audio Technologies using Vocalization and Gestures, 2014-2016) is to develop vocal sketching as a reference practice for sound design by (i) improving our understanding on how sounds are communicated through vocaliz...

Digital sound synthesizers, ubiquitous today in sound cards, software and dedicated hardware, use algorithms (Sound Synthesis Techniques, SSTs) capable of generating sounds similar to those of acoustic instruments and even totally novel sounds. The design of SSTs is a very hard problem. It is usually assumed that it requires human ingenuity to design an algorithm suitable for synthesizing a sou...

Sound is an important part of the human experience and provides valuable information about the world around us. Auditory human-computer interfaces do not have the same richness of expression and variety as audio in the world, and it has been said that this is primarily due to a lack of reasonable design tools for audio interfaces. There are a number of good guidelines for audio design and a str...

Sound surrounds us every day, whether we are inside buildings or moving around our cities. But what is “sound” and “noise?” What effects can arise from exposure to one the other? This article will introduce complex fascinating world of sound, highlighting opportunities that acoustic scientists have reduce noise pollution design cities sound good ears, improve people’s health wellbeing.

Real-time sound synthesis by physical modeling requires accurate design of each model block, together with special care on efficiency, computability, complexity issues. This paper review the case of the piano: implementation of the complete model is discussed, from the sound generation mechanism to radiation issues and couplingpedal effects. Several design techniques are discussed and compared ...