From: malcolm@interval.com (Malcolm Slaney)
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 17:41:58 +0000
Subject: Binaural Demonstrations at CCRMA
Message-Id: <ab3b16610c021004def7@[192.203.7.191]>

The CCRMA Hearing Seminar is back.  We are starting the new year with a
couple of talks on binaural hearing.  Sorry for the delay.  We have lots of
possible talks and I'm trying to schedule them in interesting combinations.
I'll try to finalize the rest of the calendar soon.

To start, Dick Duda has been collecting a number of interesting binaural
sounds.  This is the **Hearing** seminar, so Dick is going to let you hear
these sounds and lead a discussion.  We've all heard about the precedence
effect, and binaural recordings, but how many of you have heard them?  What
about wonderful effects such as the Frannssen effect and the Clifton
effect?  This is your chance!  How do these sound affect the way that we
build models of binaural hearing?  It's going to be wonderful!

But this talk does require some technical setup.... PLEASE RSVP.  If we
have too many people we'll have to double up or give the talk twice.  When
you RSVP, please say whether you can bring your own pair of headphones with
1/4" headphone jacks.  We'll have a headphone distribution amplifier.
We're also going to have a number of wireless headphones (courtesy of
Interval Research) to cover the people without their own headphones.
Please RSVP... equipment could be a problem, so we want to get this right.

        Who:    Richard O. Duda (San Jose State University)
        What:   Binaural Auditory Examples
        When:   11AM Thursday January 19, 1995
        Where:  CCRMA Library (Top floor of the Knoll at Stanford)

The following week, Bill Martens a recent graduate from Northwestern's
group will talk about his work on binaural hearing.  More details to
follow.

Don't forget to let me know if you are coming to hear these wonderful sounds.

-- Malcolm



Binaural Hearing Demonstrations

Over the past year, I have assembled a number of binaural
recordings.  Some of these have primarily entertainment
value.  However, others illustrate interesting psychoacoustic
effects, such as the Franssen effect, the Clifton effect,
and a form of binaural adaptation.  We will play as many
of these recordings as time allows, and hopefully still have
time to discuss the different perceptions that different
people will undoubtedly experience.

This will be an informal presentation in which you must
bring your own headphones (with a 1/4" stereo plug) if
you want to hear any of the examples.