AuralHeritage.org – Project Website (Web Resource)
Title: AuralHeritage.org – Project Website
Author: Sungyoung Kim
Author: Doyuen Ko
Author: Miriam Kolar
Abstract: In the first year of the project (2019), we developed and launched our project website (auralheritage.org), a key public interface for project dissemination and auralization demonstrations.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: http://auralheritage.org
Primary URL Description: The project website serves as a key public interface for project dissemination and publication of auralization demonstrations (to be produced during the second and third years of the project), which also provides project information, including objectives, references to NEH support, an introduction to aural heritage research, and press discussions about the project.
Sound Hounds: How One Research Team Is Helping Preserve the Acoustics of Historic Places (Web Resource)
Title: Sound Hounds: How One Research Team Is Helping Preserve the Acoustics of Historic Places
Author: Nicholas Som
Abstract: The National Trust for Historic Preservation profiled the NEH-Funded Research project case-study aural heritage research conducted in May 2019 at Columbia Studio A on Nashville's Historic Music Row. The research project, co-organized by Doyuen Ko (an associate professor of audio engineering technology at Belmont University), Sungyoung Kim (an associate professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology) and Miriam Kolar (a visiting scholar from Amherst College), will produce public demonstrations of aural heritage and provide tools for other researchers to do the same.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://savingplaces.org/stories/sound-hounds-how-one-research-team-is-helping-preserve-the-acoustics-of-historic-places#.XoLBim57mFw
Primary URL Description: Project profile article on the website of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Team receives grant to recreate the ‘sound signature’ of cultural heritage sites (Web Resource)
Title: Team receives grant to recreate the ‘sound signature’ of cultural heritage sites
Author: Michelle Cometa
Abstract: Advanced audio technologies being developed are helping to preserve the unique sounds of historic sites from recording studios in Nashville, Tenn., to a pre-Columbian archeological site in Peru. Sungyoung Kim, an associate professor of audio engineering technology at Rochester Institute of Technology, is leading a team of researchers to develop a set of tools using advanced augmented and virtual reality technology to preserve and replicate the acoustics of historical venues. The project would bring attention to the overlooked work in preserving aural heritage.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://www.rit.edu/news/team-receives-grant-recreate-sound-signature-cultural-heritage-sites
Primary URL Description: RIT News Website coverage of the project announcement.
Belmont Faculty to Research Digital Preservation of Music Row Studios’ Aural Heritage (Web Resource)
Title: Belmont Faculty to Research Digital Preservation of Music Row Studios’ Aural Heritage
Author: April Hefner
Abstract: Dr. Doyuen Ko, colleagues receive $350,000 National Endowment of Humanities grant to replicate acoustics of historic structures. Ko, along with co-principal investigator Dr. Sungyoung Kim (RIT) and aural heritage consultant Dr. Miriam Kolar, research how building acoustics influence human experience, particularly in religious, performance and other public gathering spaces. The researchers will develop, test and share their aural heritage process via three case studies, which represent culturally, architecturally and temporally distinct examples of endangered aural heritage.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://news.belmont.edu/belmont-faculty-to-research-digital-preservation-of-music-row-studios-aural-heritage/
Primary URL Description: Belmont University News & Media Website coverage of the project announcement.
Preserving Human Perspectives in Cultural Heritage Acoustics: Distance Cues and Proxemics in Aural Heritage Fieldwork (Article)
Title: Preserving Human Perspectives in Cultural Heritage Acoustics: Distance Cues and Proxemics in Aural Heritage Fieldwork
Author: Sungyoung Kim
Author: Miriam A. Kolar
Author: Doyuen Ko
Abstract: We examine the praxis implications of our working definition of aural heritage: spatial acoustics as physically experienced by humans in cultural contexts; aligned with the aims of anthropological archaeology (the study of human life from materials). Here we report on human-centered acoustical data collection strategies from our project “Digital Preservation and Access to Aural Heritage via a Scalable, Extensible Method,” supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the USA. The documentation and accurate translation of human sensory perspectives is fundamental to the ecological validity of cultural heritage fieldwork and the preservation of heritage acoustics. Auditory distance cues, which enable and constrain sonic communication, relate to proxemics, contextualized understandings of distance relationships that are fundamental to human social interactions. We propose that source–receiver locations in aural heritage measurements should be selected to represent a comprehensive range of proxemics according to site-contextualized spatial-use scenarios, and we identify and compare acoustical metrics for auditory distance cues from acoustical fieldwork we conducted using this strategy in three contrasting case-study heritage sites. This conceptual shift from architectural acoustical sampling to aural heritage sampling prioritizes culturally and physically plausible human auditory/sound-sensing perspectives and relates them to spatial proxemics as scaled architecturally.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/acoustics3010012
Primary URL Description: Acoustics 2021, 3, 156–176.
Access Model: Open Access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Acoustics
Publisher: MDPI
Web Tutorial: BINAURAL AURALIZATION #1: Comparison of Two Case-Study Listening Perspectives (Web Resource)
Title: Web Tutorial: BINAURAL AURALIZATION #1: Comparison of Two Case-Study Listening Perspectives
Author: Doyuen Ko
Author: Miriam A. Kolar
Author: Sungyoung Kim
Abstract: Comparison of LISTENING PERSPECTIVE: Centralized Source with Close Listener (Proportional) in Music Row Recording Studio, Nashville, TN (left plan, below) vs. 19th-century Byzantine Revival Bank, Rochester, NY (right plan, below). This computational auralization is scaled for individual listening over headphones or earbuds. To create each auralization, a "dry", close-up recording of a mandolin (using one microphone, without acoustical context) was convolved with binaural/two-channel acoustical impulse responses as documented in the measurement session photographs below each site plan. Convolution is the name of a digital signal process that can be used to virtually locate one sound in another place, by mathematically combining audio (the mandolin recording) with measured data (the impulse response) from that space. How would you describe the differences and similarities of the sonic environments presented in these auralizations? How do you think the acoustical differences affect social interactions in these spaces during their intended uses? These are some of the social and historical questions that can be explored and tested using aural heritage data and auralization interfaces, for both researchers and public audiences.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: http://auralheritage.org/auralization-CSAvsRSB.html
Primary URL Description: BINAURAL AURALIZATION #1: Comparison of Two Case-Study Listening Perspectives on the Project Website for Digital Preservation and Access to Aural Heritage Via A Scalable, Extensible Method