This open access book provides a concise explanation of the fundamentals and background
of the surround sound recording and playback technology Ambisonics. It equips readers …

Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and
listeners. Opening the door to an unlimited universe of sound, it engages spatialization as …

This work demonstrates a comprehensive methodology for capture, analysis, manipulation,
and reproduction of spatial sound-radiation. As the challenge herein, acoustic events need …

Spatial sound reproduction systems aim to produce a desired sound field over a volume of
space. At high frequencies, the number of loudspeakers required is prohibitive. This paper …

The quote from Pierre Boulez, given as an epigraph to this article, inspired French
researchers to start developing technology for spherical loudspeaker arrays in the 1990s …

A prototype 2D surround sound system was developed to investigate the use of higher order
loudspeakers and active compensation to both eliminate unwanted reflections and to …

This paper derives a superfast Toeplitz matrix inversion method using FFT techniques. The
approach casts the non-periodic Toeplitz matrix solution into a periodic framework and uses …

An embedded acoustic instrument is an embedded musical instrument that provides a direct
acoustic output. This paper describes how to make embedded acoustic instruments using …

This work concerns the theoretical analysis and synthesis of sound fields by a compact
spherical loudspeaker array. Such an electroacoustic device consists of several transducers …

Three dimensional surround sound reproduction over large areas is a prevailing challenge
due to the enormous numbers of loudspeakers required. In this paper, we propose an array …