Learning spatial audio with the Open Ambisonics Toolkit

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With the recent extension of application of spatial audio in the entertainment industries, an increasing number of academic institutions are renewing their interest in the subject. However, the plethora of techniques and practices, together with the relative novelty of them, has resulted in a lack of a methodology for teaching these technologies. This served as a motivation for our team to develop the Open
Ambisonics Toolkit (OAT): a modular educational method for institutions and individuals alike, offering a standardised and gradual theoretical introduction and promoting a democratisation of spatial audio through a DIY approach. We describe the overall design of OAT and discusses its use in an exploration-based creative media curriculum.

Presenters:

• Dr. Per Magnus Lindborg, Associate Professor (City University of Hong Kong)
• Giuseppe Pisano, PhD student (Norwegian Academy of Music)

Session type: Case Study