Over the past ten years there has been a large increase in number of projects using sound to represent astronomical data and concepts. Motivation for these includes potential enhance scientific discovery within complex datasets, by utilizing inherent multidimensionality ability our hearing filter signals from noise. Other motivations include creating engaging multisensory resources, education p...

Sound installation interfaces musical and visual art through time and space. It is a sonic intermedia practice, which blurs the boundaries of the visual and aural and includes the spatial, the temporal and the haptic. Since 1977 I have been designing sound installations that merge the senses, offering unique experiences for the listener as participating auditor. In the discussion of several of ...

Rick Chinn is a working sound engineer who has been involved in all facets of recording, sound reinforcement and acoustical design for the past fifteen years. He has written articles for Modern Recording and Music, Music and Sound Output and A/V Video and has worked for TAPCO and Kaye-Smith studios.

This paper presents a system design and experimental evaluations for ambient sound-based proximity detection with smartphones. Ambient sound is useful as spatiotemporal identifier. This is because ambient sound contains abundant information which depends on time and space. To detect proximity at high accuracy, we calculate cross correlation in frequency domain for the similarity measure of ambi...

This article introduces some new possibilities of audio manipulations and sound processing in the Computer-Aided Composition environment OpenMusic. Interfaces with underlying sound processing systems are described, with an emphasis on the use of the symbolic and visual programming environment for the design of sound computation processes.

Software engineering requires creativity, thorough design and analysis, and sound design decisions. Design decisions often have tradeoffs and implications associated with them. Therefore, it is important that design decisions are based on sound analysis. With respect to embedded systems, key drivers are often performance and cost. Thus the purpose of this paper is to describe an approach to aid...

[GHJV94] proposed a number of design patterns that offer good solutions for recurring design situations. Along with the good solutions they also discuss naiv solutions to these design situations and argue why such naiv solutions should be replaced by a sound design pattern. Our position is that this exactly describes the task of OO reengineering: find patterns within a legacy OO program that sh...

In this keynote, relations between psychoacoustics, sound quality, and music are discussed. In the domain of psychoacoustics, a Dynamic Loudness Model (DLM) is presented which can simulate loudness perception of sounds with strong temporal structure for both normal hearing persons and persons with (slight) hearing deficits. Recent results on the hearing sensation pitch strength will be presente...

We combine two concepts, the musical instrument as metaphor and technology probes, to explore how tangible interfaces can exploit the semantic richness of sound. Using participatory design methods from Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), we designed and tested the A20, a polyhedron-shaped, multichannel audio input/output device. The software maps sound around the edges and responds to the user’s ...

The control of sound propagation and reflection has always been the goal of engineers involved in the design of acoustic systems. A recent design approach based on coordinate transformations, which is applicable to many physical systems, together with the development of a new class of engineered materials called metamaterials, has opened the road to the unconstrained control of sound. However, ...