{"id":1677,"date":"2020-11-20T17:15:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T17:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2020-11-20T17:15:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T17:15:57","slug":"achieving-the-democracy-of-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/?p=1677","title":{"rendered":"Achieving the Democracy of Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My work and that of a colleague (Dr Adam Hill) is being featured as an impact case study for the upcoming Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF2021).  My work was previously featured as a case study in the last REF, too, as it happens (in <a href=\"https:\/\/impact.ref.ac.uk\/casestudies\/CaseStudy.aspx?Id=9508\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/impact.ref.ac.uk\/casestudies\/CaseStudy.aspx?Id=9508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">REF2014<\/a>).  Here&#8217;s a video of a presentation we made to the rest of the University to let them know what we get up to.  Further details can also be found at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.derby.ac.uk\/research\/showcase\/audio-engineering-research\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.derby.ac.uk\/research\/showcase\/audio-engineering-research\/ <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b8mQYKzbvf4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=842&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My work and that of a colleague (Dr Adam Hill) is being featured as an impact case study for the upcoming Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF2021). My work was previously featured as a case study in the last REF, too, as it happens (in REF2014). Here&#8217;s a video of a presentation we made to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/?p=1677\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Achieving the Democracy of Sound&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iYFT-r3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":382,"url":"https:\/\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/?p=382","url_meta":{"origin":1677,"position":0},"title":"Sounds in Space 2012","author":"Bruce Wiggins","date":"June 26th,  2012","format":false,"excerpt":"We have a programme change in the Sounds in Space 2012 event. \u00a0We are pleased to announce that John Crossley will be talking to us about the 5.1 mix he carried out for Imogen Heap\u00a0(called Neglected Space which was featured on the Xizi She Knows\u00a0single)\u00a0which utilised both Pro-tools and 4th\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":666,"url":"https:\/\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/?p=666","url_meta":{"origin":1677,"position":1},"title":"YouTube, Ambisonics and VR","author":"Bruce Wiggins","date":"April 25th,  2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Introduction So, last week Google enabled head (phone!) tracked positional audio on 360 degree videos. \u00a0Ambisonics is now one of the defacto standards for VR audio. \u00a0This is a big moment! \u00a0I've been playing a little with some of the command line tools needed to get this to work, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ambisonics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ambisonics","link":"https:\/\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"AmbiSignalRemap","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/AmbiSignalRemap.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1799,"url":"https:\/\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/?p=1799","url_meta":{"origin":1677,"position":2},"title":"WHAM &#8211; Webcam Head-track AMbisonics","author":"Bruce Wiggins","date":"January 27th,  2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The restrictions imposed by the pandemic thwarted the continuation of \u2018in-person\u2019 listening tests into Ambisonic Order and transparency over head-tracked headphones in 2020\/21, which is an ongoing project using Very High Order Ambisonics (up to 35th) and hardware head-tracking. 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