ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates aspects of body and space using a sound installation of mine as a concrete example. It provides some technological foundations on binaural technology and engineering issues that are also relevant for Parisflaneur. The chapter also provides insights into the close relation of technical building blocks and their aesthetic role in the artwork, in particular virtual audio technology using headphones along with psychoacoustic mechanisms and cultural implications of listening for personal, synthesised or recorded auditory spaces. It focuses on the Parisflaneur framework, and describes its appearance to the listener and its realisation, followed by aesthetic and cultural references as well as implications of the installation and the technologies involved. Binaural synthesis denotes methods of generating head-related signals without recording an entire auditory scene by means of binaural microphones. Most binaural synthesis techniques are based on so-called head-related impulse responses (HRIR).
