Surround Sound Radio

This dawned on me a while ago but it’s becoming increasingly obvious that it’s true. I said it out loud to a few people at the AES Convention in Vienna lately and they nodded in agreement.

The simplest way to deliver surround sound audio to “radio” listeners is via the internet. There are potential solutions for both DAB and HD Radio but there are a lot of stumbling blocks along the way.

Most of us sit in front of computers with high speed internet connections all day. We just need folks to buy a few more speakers and get the right software installed. It would be nice and tidy if it were one format but in fact with internet delivery it’s not that big a deal. Most of us are comfortable having multiple players installed on our machines. So it could be MPEG Surround, QuickTime, or even Windows Media.

Let’s just start delivering some content so people get hooked on this stuff.

DAB Comes to Ipods

Frontier Silicon has teamed with Roberts Radio to develop a DAB/FM plug-in accessory that allows listeners to listen to radio stations with an Ipod.

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Interesting but they’ll have to learn how to spell iPod first!

How the brain can hear shapes

A device that turns visual data into sound triggers part of the brain associated with sensing shape – it might help the blind “see”.

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Glenn Gould Exhibition Set To Open This Autumn

The multimedia exhibition about the Canadian pianist features sound recordings, taped interviews and videos. Plus, Zenph Studio’s CD re-performance of Gould’s renowned 1955 version of the Bach Goldberg Variations arrives in stores later this month.

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The release of the Gould disc I worked on is still a couple of weeks away but it’s already getting attention.

Coding Technologies, Philips and Linear Acoustic to Unveil MPEG Surround/PCM Multi-Channel Audio Solution for Professional Broadcasting

VIENNA, Austria, BUSINESS WIRE — Coding Technologies, together with Philips Applied Technologies and Linear Acoustic, today announced the availability of a new professional broadcasting hardware/software solution based on MPEG Surround. The groundbreaking solution enables high quality multi-channel audio to be distributed over existing stereo infrastructures.

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Audio collection to enhance Google Earth

A collection of enriched audio clips from all over the globe that took 40 years to collate will soon be linked to online resource Google Earth

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