The Sound of the City- 2023
The Sound of the City (2023) captures everyday life in central London, allowing immersnts to experience the city through an embodied sonic perspective where sound moves naturally around them. I studied the Introduction to Spatial Audio course at UCL, where I gained hands-on experience with Ambisonic recording, spatial mixing, and integrating immersive audio with 360° video. This training deepened my understanding of spatial perception and how sound can enhance immersion in VR storytelling.
First-order Ambisonics with four channels.
Ambisonics is a method of encoding a sound field taking into account its directional properties. In traditional multichannel audio (e.g., stereo, 5.1 and 7.1 surround) each channel has the signal corresponding to a given loudspeaker. Instead, in Ambisonics each channel has information about certain physical properties of the acoustic field (Arteaga, 2023). It has been suggested that Ambisonics, as a full-sphere surround sound technique, plays a fundamental role in enhancing the realism of 360-degree visual content within virtual reality experiences (RanaOzcinar and Smolic, 2019).