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Psychoacoustic Music Sound Field Synthesis

Creating Spaciousness for Composition, Performance, Acoustics and Perception

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  • Presents a new approach to spatial audio: psychoacoustic sound field synthesis that enables a natural, spatial, music listening experience
  • Considers the relationship between music and space from the viewpoint of multiple disciplines to argue for psychoacoustic sound field synthesis as a new approach to spatial audio technology
  • Presents a psychoacoustic sound field synthesis approach for music as an exemplary case that illustrates the advantages of psychoacoustic considerations throughout the development of new spatial audio technology

Part of the book series: Current Research in Systematic Musicology (CRSM, volume 7)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxix
  2. Introduction

    • Tim Ziemer
    Pages 1-8
  3. Spatial Concepts of Music

    • Tim Ziemer
    Pages 9-43
  4. Biology of the Auditory System

    • Tim Ziemer
    Pages 45-64
  5. Psychoacoustics

    • Tim Ziemer
    Pages 65-110
  6. Spatial Sound of Musical Instruments

    • Tim Ziemer
    Pages 111-144
  7. Spatial Acoustics

    • Tim Ziemer
    Pages 145-170
  8. Conventional Stereophonic Sound

    • Tim Ziemer
    Pages 171-202
  9. Wave Field Synthesis

    • Tim Ziemer
    Pages 203-243
  10. Psychoacoustic Sound Field Synthesis

    • Tim Ziemer
    Pages 245-281
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 283-287

About this book

This book provides a broad overview of spaciousness in music theory, from mixing and performance practice, to room acoustics, psychoacoustics and audio engineering, and presents the derivation, implementation and experimental validation of a novel type of spatial audio system. Discussing the physics of musical instruments and the nature of auditory perception, the book enables readers to precisely localize synthesized musical instruments while experiencing their timbral variance and spatial breadth.

Offering interdisciplinary insights for novice music enthusiasts and experts in the field of spatial audio, this book is suitable for anyone interested in the study of music and musicology and the application of spatial audio mixing, or those seeking an overview of the state of the art in applied psychoacoustics for spatial audio.

 


Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Systematic Musicology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Tim Ziemer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Psychoacoustic Music Sound Field Synthesis

  • Book Subtitle: Creating Spaciousness for Composition, Performance, Acoustics and Perception

  • Authors: Tim Ziemer

  • Series Title: Current Research in Systematic Musicology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23033-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23032-6Published: 24 August 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23035-7Published: 25 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23033-3Published: 06 August 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2196-6966

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-6974

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXIX, 287

  • Number of Illustrations: 148 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Engineering Acoustics, Music, Acoustics

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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