Re: In search of Basic Pedagogical Audio Material

[Erick Gallun <gallun@xxxxxx>]

I have received good responses from students when I played some of Al 
Bregman's very nice demos.  The cd can be ordered from his webpage 
http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/labs/auditory/bregmancd.html for $25. Some of 
the demos can be downloaded for free.

I usually also use the ASA demo cd which can be purchased at their website 
http://asa.aip.org/discs.html for $5.

Erick Gallun
Hearing Research Center
Boston University


At 10:26 AM 1/10/2006, Olivier Tache wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Within a very short (2 days) course on Sound Synthesis, I would like to 
> introduce the very basics of psycoacoustics.... in something like 1 hour, 
> or less !
>
> I already have the sufficient scientific background & material.
> Unfortunately I have no exemplary sound.
>
> Would anyone have a WWW pointer, or a CD reference, that would help me 
> finding such basic exemplary sounds ?
>
> I would be particularly interested in sound examples on :
> - perception of Timbre (3D timbre space, suppression of attacks or of 
> spectral enveloppe evolution, emergence of several instruments by applying 
> vibrato...)
> - sound localization, room and space perception
> - perception of pitch (of sine sounds, to begin)
> - eventually auditory illusions
>
> Note that I don't plan on offering a deep introduction to psychouacoustics 
> at all.
> Basically, the simple message I would like to transmit to learners is that 
> audio perception is something complex, sometimes astonishing.
>
> I did not find such www pointers in the list archive, nor on google.
>
> I consider generally that asking for pedagogical material is not very nice...
> I allow myself to do so in that case because the core topic of my course 
> is not psychoacoustics, and because I am only looking for the basics.
>
> Hope you'll understand !
>
> I thank you all in advance,
> all the best,
>
> Olivier Tache
>
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