Re: In search of Basic Pedagogical Audio Material

[Yoshitaka Nakajima <nakajima@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Olivier,

Please try the following website to find some basic and astonishing auditory
illusions for your students.
http://www.design.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~ynhome/ENG/Demo/illusions2nd.html

Best regards,

Yoshitaka NAKAJIMA, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Acoustic Design
Kyushu University
Fukuoka 815-8540, Japan
Telephone: +81 92 553 4558
Facsimile: +81 92 553 4520
nakajima@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olivier Tache" <olivier.tache@xxxxxxx>
To: <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:26 AM
Subject: In search of Basic Pedagogical Audio Material


> 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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