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Just wanted to let you know about my binaural audio blog. The goal of this blog is to let people experience different locations and events through sound. You can check it out here:

www.throughmyears.com

Let me know what you think.

An open source project enabling microcontroller synthesized binaural beats synchronized with LED lights continues to hold my attention. The Make Magazine solder and software instructions along with kit parts helped me to build several versions of the device. I'd never stuck with listening to recorded binaural beats before but the brush fires this particular project triggered finally moved me to spend the $20 to order the basic kit that needed to be modified using the helpful instructions freely available.

The web community enthusiasm and thrill of the build fueled the sprint to my first use; the hot glue had hardly cooled. The visual effects got my attention. Previously unimaged colors and patterns came from my own brain. Clearly I'm visually oriented and I didn't focus my attention exclusively on the audio generated until about two weeks of daily use of the device. It generated the same "brain-wave states" but without the visual effects that set the hook and seem more powerfully entraining.

You can browse through the reference links and continue reading about this sound and light machine, which is sometimes called a mind machine, and visit some of the sites I found most helpful. I've included a recording of the sound portion of the standard program that comes with the initial firmware installation.

I've been a visitor to this site for a while now. I finally have some content to share with all you binaural fans. I've done a youTube music video using my homemade binaural head. Unfortunately, I had to sacrifice video quality to get the higher res stereo audio (bandwidth limits of youTube etc...). Hope you enjoy, drop me a comment at jeffmo77 using gmail.com if you'd like.

Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVRJBloHQ1A

For pictures of the head and link to the website with the hi-res video, and more - click on "Continue reading...", below.

Here you'll find information on binaural related studies in a PDF presented at AES in 2006:

http://pcfarina.eng.unipr.it/Public/Papers/217-AES120.pdf

These web pages are dedicated to the HRIR measurement sessions that have been peformed at Ircam and AKG in the context of the Listen project (more information...).

Learning stretches understanding. These two links can help you appreciate the simplicity of binaural as you review the complexities of ambisonics.

Ambisonics: Questions & Answers

(http://www.ambisonic.net/ambifaq.html) tutors on ambisonics in an article from 1982.

A-Format to B-Format Conversion

(http://pcfarina.eng.unipr.it/Public/B-format/A2B-conversion/A2B.htm) shows and tells about today's ambisonic considerations with university style and grace.

http://www.holophonic.ch/intro.php

Replay after the choppy loading to experience a fine sound and visual presentation.

"The following are binaural recordings made by placing microphones at my ears and recording the sound around me. If you listen to them on headphones and close your eyes, you're infor a treat. The image at left downloads, while the image at right streams."

http://www.kipjones.net/binau.html

FEATURED PODCASTS TAGGED WITH BINAURAL

Caution: Binaural beats. You may be unpleasantly affected.

http://podfeed.net/tags/binaural

http://www.univ-brest.fr/mstis/omnihead/accueil.htm

The purpose of the French association of binaural sound engineers and artists is to study the techniques of sound recording and reproduction able to respect a three-dimensional sound space, i.e. our sphere of usual perception. People of France Telecom and IrCAM are involved.

(An English conversion is available. Today's and tomorrow's links courtesy of Simone Fontana)