INTRODUCTION

1 - HOW WE CREATE A 3D SOUNDSCAPE OF THE WORLD

• DIRECTION OF SOUND

• HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION

• VERTICAL RESOLUTION

• FREQUENCY

• DISTANCE PERCEPTION

• THE SPACE IN SPATIAL SOUND

• CONSCIOUSNESS

• AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS

• WHAT WE PAY ATTENTION TO

• WHAT WE IGNORE

• WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO LISTEN TO?

• OBJECTIVITY AND UNIVERSALITY

• HEAD BOBBING

• MOVEMENT

• SELECTIVE ATTENTION

• MULTIMODAL PERCEPTION

2 - BINAURAL SOUND

• BUT WHY?

• MICROPHONE DIRECTIVITY

• CONVENTIONAL STEREO RECORDING

• THE AB STEREO TECHNIQUE

• THE XY STEREO TECHNIQUE

• THE ORTF STEREO TECHNIQUE

• THE MID-SIDE (MS) TECHNIQUE

• BINAURAL RECORDING

• USE YOUR HEAD

• DIY HEAD

• MINI BINAURAL HEADS

• FULL-SIZE BINAURAL HEADS

• WHAT'S THE CATCH?

• NOISE AND ACOUSTICS

• BINAURAL PANNERS

• WHAT DO I NEED TO START PLAYING WITH BINAURAL SOUND?

• ASMR

• BINAURAL BEATS

3 - USING BINAURAL SOUND IN AUDIO DRAMA

• DRAMATIC POSSIBILITIES & PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS

• THE CONVENTIONAL PROCESS OF AUDIO DRAMA PRODUCTION

• HEAR, DON’T TELL - WRITING FOR SPATIAL AUDIO

• PERSPECTIVE, PRESENCE AND INTERACTIVITY

• THE DISCOVERY ADVENTURES

• THE DARK IS RISING

• SCRIPT CHOICES

• TELL WHEN YOU CAN’T SHOW

• RECORDING BINAURAL AUDIO

• RECORDING ON LOCATION

• SIGNAL VS NOISE

• STUDIO RECORDING

• JOURNEYS AND GEOGRAPHY

• BINAURAL EDITING

• MUSIC

• PRODUCTION ELEMENTS

• SFX

• LIBRARY & RECORDED & SYNTHESISED SFX

• FOLEY SFX

• MIX, MASTER AND DELIVERY

• DOLBY ATMOS FOR AUDIO DRAMA

4 - USING BINAURAL SOUND IN THEATRE

• THE ENCOUNTER

• MACBETH

• LEFT-CENTRE-RIGHT

• LOGISTICS

• BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE (BYOD)

• WIRELESS HEADPHONES

• WIRED HEADPHONES

• VOLUME CONTROL

• BRING YOUR OWN HEADPHONES (BYOH)

• MAKING A WIRELESS SYSTEM WORK

• USING WIRELESS AS A BACKUP SYSTEM

• PRE-SHOW CHECKS

• ACCESSIBILITY

• HEADPHONE TYPES

• ON-EAR HEADPHONES

• OVER-EAR HEADPHONES

• IN-EAR HEADPHONES

• BONE CONDUCTION HEADPHONES

• OPEN BACK VS CLOSED BACK

• NOISE REDUCTION AND TRANSPARENCY

5 - AMBISONICS, DYNAMIC BINAURAL SOUND AND 360° FILMS

• MOVING BEYOND THE FIXED PERSPECTIVE OF BINAURAL

• 360° FILMS

• AMBISONICS

• OTHER SOUND FIELD RECORDING TECHNIQUES

• AMBISONIC TO BINAURAL SOUND

• DYNAMIC BINAURAL SOUND

• SIMULATIONS OF OTHER MICROPHONE TYPES AND FORMATS

• AMBISONICS FOR INTERVIEWS

• AMBISONIC PANNERS

• SPAT, NON-SPAT AND HEAD-LOCKED STEREO

• THE DECLINE OF 360° VIDEO

• AMBISONICS AND SPEAKERS

• IN CONCLUSION

• WHAT DO I NEED TO START EXPERIMENTING WITH AMBISONIC SOUND?

6 - VR, AR, MR AND GAME AUDIO TECHNOLOGY

• WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VR, AR, MR AND XR?

• THE GAME ENGINE

• TIMELINES VS INTERACTIVITY

• IN PURSUIT OF REPETITIVE BEATS

• VR vs MR

• REKORDER-LAND

• WHAT DO I NEED TO START PLAYING WITH VR & AR?

• HAPTICS

7 - LOUDSPEAKER SPATIALISATION

• GLORIOUS MONO

• STEREO

• QUADROPHONICS

• THE LOUDSPEAKER SIDE OF THINGS

• COMMON LOUDSPEAKER SYSTEMS

• AT HOME

• DEATH TO THE SMART SPEAKER, LONG LIVE THE HI-FI

• IN THE CAR

• UPMIXING

• AMBISONICS AND SPEAKERS

8 - CINEMA, HOME CINEMA AND THE RISE OF DOLBY ATMOS

• CINEMA

• 7.1

• DOLBY ATMOS

• OBJECTS AND BEDS

• HOW WE USE SURROUND SOUND

• WHY ISN’T DIALOGUE RECORDED WITH AN AMBISONIC OR BINAURAL MIC?

• DOLBY ATMOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT - HOME CINEMA & TV

• BEYOND CINEMA

• WHAT DO I NEED TO START PLAYING WITH DOLBY ATMOS?

• IMAX

• DTS:X

• THX

• DVD & BLU-RAY

9 - SPATIAL AUDIO FOR MUSIC PRODUCTION

• SPATIAL SOUND FOR THE RECREATION OF THE PLAYING ENVIRONMENT

• SPATIAL SOUND FOR THE MODERN AESTHETIC OF MIXING MUSIC

• REMASTERING EXISTING ALBUMS IN SPATIAL SOUND

• CREATING A NEW AESTHETIC IN SPATIAL SOUND

• 8D AUDIO

• STEREO VS SPATIAL MUSIC PRODUCTION - RECORD, EDIT, MIX, MASTER

• RECORDING FOR SPATIAL MUSIC

• MIXING ON SPEAKERS VS HEADPHONES

• BINAURAL RENDER MODE

• PANNER PAN LAW CONFUSION

• WHAT CAN WE TAKE AWAY FROM THIS CONFUSING SET OF IMAGES?

• SPATIALISING

• EFFECTS

• DYNAMICS

• LFE

• MASTER

• TESTING

• DISTRIBUTION - DD+ JOC AND AC4-IMS - AKA MORE TECHNICAL MALARKEY

• LOUDNESS

• WHAT DO I NEED TO START PLAYING WITH DOLBY ATMOS?

10 - THEATRE AND CONCERTS

• THEATRE

• SURROUND SOUND

• CONCERTS

• SURROUND SOUND

• EXIT NON-SPATIAL AUDIO, PURSUED BY A BEAR

• SPATIALISED REVERB & VIRTUAL ACOUSTICS

• LOCALISING PERFORMERS

• LOCALISING MUSIC

• BRING ME ALL THE SPEAKERS

• HAMLET HAIL TO THE THIEF

• HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD

• WAVE FIELD SYNTHESIS

• FILTERING THE TRACKING SYSTEM

• SPATIALISATION SYSTEMS

• WHAT DO I NEED TO START PLAYING?

• 11 - THE FUTURE