Welcome to the Ambisonics Symposium 2009

The Ambisonics Symposium was held  June 25-27, 2009 at the IEM in Graz, AUSTRIA [Symposium Flyer, pdf].

The symposium is dedicated to discussing the various problems and solutions concerning spherical sound field analysis and re-synthesis (Higher Order Ambisonics). Furthermore, strategies and  guidelines for the exchange and distribution of Ambisonics encoded material shall be discussed with a focus on potential standardisation.

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Contributions on the following topics are highly desirable:

• New Ambisonics playback strategies for sound scene reproduction
• Spherical microphone arrays
• Analysis and capture of directional sound sources
• Synthesis of directional and focused sound sources
• Virtual acoustics via headphones
• Standardisation, exchange, implementation and hardware issues
• Theoretical considerations on comparative subjective and objective studies
• Generalisation and theory
• ...