Experience Binaural

Binaural experience is at ceter stage again, largely due to popularity of virtual reality games. Imagine. Listening to an album by your favorite band and feel like you're with them in the studio or in the front seat of their concert.
Hear a bird flying over your head or hear a whisper in one ear. And if you record a band, you'll hear it exactly as the band was positioned when playing. In 1933, AT&T Bell Laboratories brought binaural audio to the Chicago World's Fair. The acoustics research department of the company created a mechanical dummy, which it named Oscar, with microphones placed on its cheeks in front its ears. For decades, binaural recording was a novelty, but with the rise of virtual reality hardware like the Oculus Rift, Sony's Morpheus, and Samsung's Gear - systems dependent on realistic 3D audio to fully immerse their users - binaural audio is on the cusp of a renaissance.  Radiohead did it in the studio. Tom York playing piano in the studio just for you! Watch Beck concert (David Campbell directing) reimagines David Bowie's 'Sound and Vision'
Binaural recording systems are unique because they emulate the workings of the human head. The architecture of our anatomy dictates how we understand the sounds we hear: with an ear on either side of a thick skull and spongy brain, we hear sounds enter our left and right ears at different times. Binaural recording takes the stereo method one step further by placing two microphones in ear-like cavities on either side of a stand or dummy head. Because the dummy head recreates the density and shape of a human head, these microphones capture and process sound exactly as it would be heard by human ears, preserving interaural cues. The effect is best experienced over headphones, with a clear distinction between left and right perspectives. It's a simple concept, but when done with high-quality microphones and played over equally high-quality headphones, the effect is eerie: it fools the brain into believing it's hearing the sounds firsthand. Visit The Binaural Sessions with 3D Sound - Binaural Recording of a Musical Performance with Peter and Kerry here