In a recent interview on connectedlife.style Wilfried van Baelen, founder of Auro Technologies, talks about his work on Auro-3D & the future of 3D-Audio. After 140 years of the evolution of sound, we finally have sound in 3D, we can integrate it and, of course, what you see now is a learning curve for the whole industry. This is just the beginning of a lot of learning for … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought 15 – Fore | Mid | Back
As the year continues, many of these posts will be philosophical in nature. Some will be in contradiction to previous postings. These are not intended as truths or assertions, they’re merely thoughts…ideas. Think of this as stream of consciousness over a wide span… I'm continuing the "visual vs. sound analogs" stream this week. I feel confident in expecting that everyone … [Read more...]
Real Spaces
When we say “space”, people generally think of two things: outer space, or a bounded area that something fits into. It's a safe bet that most people in the sound community immediately think of the latter. So often we focus on the characteristics of a space...how far a sound carries, reflections and reverberation time, etc. Certainly that helps us define a space, but...for the … [Read more...]
Immersive Sound: From Production to Playback
Mix Magazine, The MPSE and CAS have collaborated to put together a one day conference (September 6th, 2014) at Sony Studios in Culver City (Los Angeles, CA) exploring the Dolby Atmos and Auro 3D formats. Mix has been advertising this event for a while now, but details were fairly sparse. Things appear to have been locked down, and the schedule is now up on the event's website. … [Read more...]
The World in Three Dimensions…
There was a time when people argued that theatrical (even home) sound has long been three dimensional. Maybe there are still some that make that claim. With the rise of binaural audio, Dolby Atmos and Auro 3D, sound actually is entering the third dimension. This is just a small semantic argument. Surround sound, in its traditional 5.1 and 7.1 formats, wasn't technically three … [Read more...]