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OpenAirLib: A JavaScript Library for the Acoustics of Spaces

Authors: Brown, Kenneth; Paradis, Matthew; Murphy, Damian

AES Convention 142 · Paper 9708 · May 2017

Abstract

The possibilities for creating online sonic art and virtual acoustic environments have been increased by the introduction of audio Application Programming Interfaces, libraries, and online resources of acoustic impulse responses (which encapsulate the acoustics of real or imaginary spaces.) This paper presents the OpenAirLib JavaScript library that extends the capabilities of the World Wide Web Consortium Web Audio API, facilitating the incorporation of three-dimensional acoustics of spaces into web audio projects. It enables first-order ambisonic material from the Open Acoustic Impulse Response Library (OpenAIR) website to superimpose the acoustics of one space onto synthesized or recorded material from another space. An example is then described which uses these technologies to produce instances of generative online sonic art from OpenAIR data.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 142
AES Convention
142
Paper number
9708
Publication date
May 6, 2017
Session subject
Posters: Room Recording, and Listening
Affiliation
University of York, York, UK; BBC Research and Development, London, UK (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper