This week's edition features a mystery sound. Can you identify it?

Join me om another binaural audio field recording starting on the busy A27 main road in Hampshire, UK with the sound of heavy morning traffic, this all fades away as I reach the tranquility of the River Hamble heading out towards the Solent. binauralaudioworld.com

What is binaural audio?

Binaural audio sound, a truly immersive sonic experience, has captivated sound enthusiasts and professionals alike with its unique ability to simulate a 3D auditory environment. Offering an extraordinary depth and realism to sound reproduction, binaural audio enables listeners to perceive sounds as if they were physically present in the environment where the sound is occurring.

Binaural audio sound, unlike traditional stereo sound, utilises two microphones placed in a manner similar to human ears. This spatial configuration is crucial in capturing the intricate audio nuances that produce a heightened sense of realism. The slight time differences and alterations in frequency when a sound wave reaches each ear helps in establishing the direction and distance of the sound source, a phenomenon known as binaural cues.

By mimicking the natural hearing process, binaural audio offers an authentic 3D listening experience. It provides listeners with an unparalleled depth of immersion that surpasses stereo and surround sound formats. From capturing the minute sounds of nature to producing immersive virtual reality soundscapes, the applications of binaural audio are vast and multifaceted.

In the era of digital media, binaural audio is increasingly favoured for its unique capabilities in creating realistic audio environments. The rise of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies has also amplified the demand for binaural audio, as it provides an enhanced sensory experience that syncs perfectly with the immersive visuals. As an important component of the virtual reality technology stack, binaural audio enhances the VR experience by producing immersive, high-fidelity soundscapes that add depth and dimension to virtual worlds.

Additionally, binaural audio finds its significance in the fields of neuroscience and psychology, contributing to research in spatial hearing and sound perception. Binaural beats, a form of auditory biohack, have been leveraged for meditation and relaxation, as they reportedly assist in inducing states of focused concentration or deep sleep.

To conclude, binaural audio sound stands as an epitome of sonic innovation, bridging the gap between digital media and human sensory perception. Its superior ability to create an immersive, three-dimensional sound experience has ushered in a new era of auditory experience, making it a valuable asset in the landscape of modern audio technology.

Keywords: Binaural audio sound, 3D auditory environment, sound reproduction, binaural cues, natural hearing process, immersive sound experience, digital media, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), binaural beats, neuroscience, psychology, spatial hearing, sound perception, sonic innovation, audio technology.

A walk from the depths of Westminster tube station up the escalators and out into the daylight opposite the Houses Of Parliament and onto Westminster Bridge.

Here's another episode from the London Underground, this time on the Jubilee Line. You can follow the exact location by listening to the station announcements in the carriage. f you're new to this kind of audio, it works like this:

Binaural audio is a technique that recreates a three-dimensional sound experience for listeners using stereo headphones. It simulates the way sound is perceived by our ears in real life, capturing the subtle differences in timing and intensity that occur when sound reaches each ear. By recording audio with specialized microphones placed in the ears of a dummy head (or using digital signal processing,) binaural audio can produce an immersive and realistic sound environment, allowing listeners to perceive sound coming from different directions and distances, providing a sense of depth and spatial accuracy.

Do let me know if there's a particular sound you'd like me to record for a future edition.There's links for voicenotes and emails in the show notes, and on the website: https://binauralaudioworld.com/

Travelling on the very noisy Central Line tube from Mile End to Liverpool Street. I was standing near an open window between two of the carriages.

This is a trip on the Docklands Light Railway in London, or the DLR as it is known. It's a seven minute journey from Mudchute station to Heron Quays (although for some unknown reason I say Heron Gate in the recording. Heron Quays is correct). From the Transport For London website:

'The Docklands Light Railway is an automated light metro system primarily serving the redeveloped Docklands area of London and providing a direct connection between London's two major financial districts, Canary Wharf and the City of London.'

On this, the last episode from Spain, join me for a dip in the icy cold waters of a river in rural Murcia, Spain. Come on in, the water's very refreshing!

This was recorded this morning just outside of the Hydro-Electric plant in the Murcia region of Spain.

Early morning countryside birdsong recorded on the weekend of King Charles' Coronation. An escape into nature from the royal celebrations.

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Join me for an early morning walk around Holly Hill Country Park. You’ll hear sounds of nature including birdsong, and plenty of water features. Listen out for the awesome sound of the metal entrance gate you can see on today’s episode artwork. See binauralaudioworld.com for all my contact details.

Welcome to season three of Binaural Audio world. I'm back in the UK after a tour of Australia, and I'll be collecting sounds to add to the podcast every week. This time it's a very immersive drive through an automated carwash. Did I remember to close the windows? Listen to find out!

This is the final epsode of season two, which has featured the sounds of three states in Australia. To finish on a relaxing note I'm back in Queensland at Walkabout Creek Swimming Hole in the D'Aguilar National Park, to the west of Brisbane. Enjoy this final taste of the great outdoors in one of my favourite countries in the world - Australia. 

I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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Thanks for listening - Andy

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It's night time in the tiny village of Bunnadoon, nestled in the hills of the Southern Highlands this charming area is a quaint hamlet with a distinct Scottish feel to it. There's a lot of tartan in the shops around the whole area near to Morton National Park here in the state of New South Wales. 

The rain has come, and in the far distance the haunting sound of a freight train will help lull you into a great state of relaxation. 

I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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Thanks for listening - Andy

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This time I'm back near the ocean, at Point Cartwight Lighthouse near the mouth of the Mooloolah River, in Queensland. The distant roar of the ocean and the sounds of the trail up to to the lighthouse make for a very relaxing summer's day in the great Australian outdoors. 

I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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I'm back in the tranquility of the countryside this week on a very quiet trail alongside Engorra Reservior, a few miles outside Brisbane, Queensland. The sound of the cicadas in the trees is something I find very relaxing, I hope you do too. 

I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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Thanks for listening - Andy

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Today I take a train from the centre of Sydney to St Martin Place Station in the suburbs, (although I did get distracted and overshoot my intended destination by one stop).

I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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I'm taking a break from nature this week, back in the city of Brisbane, the capital of the state of Queensland, Australia. Howard Smiths Wharves next to the city's iconic Story Bridge is a bustling area of bars and restaurants. Join me for a stroll past and through some of the waterside venues on a warm summer's evening. 

I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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Thanks for listening - Andy

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This week, come with me on a hike along the Glass House Mountains trail, in the Sunshine Coast Region of the state of Queensland. The area is home to around only 5000 people, but a good few of them seemed to be on the trail taking in the majestic sights, and sounds of the mountains at the same time as I was. 

I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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Thanks for listening - Andy

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Today, join me as I head back into the state of Queensland, on a short walk through the forest in Walkabout creek, around 12 Kilometers outside Brisbane. There's plenty of nature sounds, and some other signs of human activity too in this week's episode.

As always, I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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Thanks for listening - Andy

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Welcome to episode 8 of our second season of Binaural Audio World, featuring sounds recorded on location around the globe. This season comes from Australia! It's recorded using two microphones placed as if they were human ears. This means if you're wearing headphones or earbuds you will hear a very realistic, almost 3D sound.

Today, a city soundscape from the 29th floor overlookingh the Docklands area. 

As always, I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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Thanks for listening - Andy

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Welcome to episode 7 of our second season of Binaural Audio World, featuring sounds recorded on location around the globe. This season comes from Australia! It's recorded using two microphones placed as if they were human ears. This means if you're wearing headphones or earbuds you will hear a very realistic, almost 3D sound.

Today it's the Dawn Chorus in the tiny town of Rathdowney, Queensland.

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Welcome to episode 6 of our second season of Binaural Audio World, featuring sounds recorded on location around the globe. This season comes from Australia! It's recorded using two microphones placed as if they were human ears. This means if you're wearing headphones or earbuds you will hear a very realistic, almost 3D sound.

Today, a rural soudscape featuring the time just after sunset in Cockatoo, Victoria. We're in a very rural area around 50 Kilometers southeast of Melbourne. As always, I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

You can send a voicenote to me using this link: binauralaudioworld

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Thanks for listening - Andy

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Welcome to episode 5 of our second season of Binaural Audio World, featuring sounds recorded on location around the globe. This season comes from Australia! It's recorded using two microphones placed as if they were human ears. This means if you're wearing headphones or earbuds you will hear a very realistic, almost 3D sound.

Today, a visit to the top of Carrington Falls in the Southern Highlands Region of New South Wales, in the Budderoo National Park.

As always, I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

You can send a voicenote to me using this link: binauralaudioworld

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Thanks for listening - Andy

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Welcome to episode 4 of our second season of Binaural Audio World, featuring sounds recorded on location around the globe. This season comes from Australia! It's recorded using two microphones placed as if they were human ears. This means if you're wearing headphones or earbuds you will hear a very realistic, almost 3D sound.

Today, a visit to the world famous Bondi Beach near Sydney, and a chilled out New Year's day under a shady tree with the ocean in the distance, and a random conversation nearby!

As always, I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

You can send a voicenote to me using this link: binauralaudioworld

You can email me: binauralaudioworld@gmail.com

Thanks for listening - Andy

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This week we're in Queensland, on the City Beach, in the heart of Brisbane, Australia.

Welcome to episode 3 of our second season of Binaural Audio World, featuring sounds recorded on location around the globe. This season comes from Australia! It's recorded using two microphones placed as if they were human ears. This means if you're wearing headphones or earbuds you will hear a very realistic, almost 3D sound. 

As always, I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

You can send a voicenote to me using this link: binauralaudioworld

You can email me: binauralaudioworld@gmail.com

Thanks for listening - Andy

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Welcome to episode 2 of our second season of Binaural Audio World, featuring sounds recorded on location around the world. This week, we're still in Sydney, in the Gallon Pub, right in the city centre! So - headphones on, and come and join me for a pint in the warm garden courtyard. It's recorded using two microphones placed as if they were human ears. This means if you're wearing headphones or earbuds you will hear a very realistic, almost 3D sound. 

As always, I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

You can send a voicenote to me using this link: binauralaudioworld

You can email me: binauralaudioworld@gmail.com

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Welcome to 2023 and Season 2 of Binaural Audio World, which feaures live location recordings from Australia! It's recorded using two microphones placed as if they were human ears. This means if you're wearing headphones or earbuds you will hear a very realistic, almost 3D sound. We start this new season appropriately with the world famous Sydney Harbour fireworks, recorded live on the Benellong lawn of the Royal Botanical Gardens, overlooking the Sydney Opera House and Harbour bridge. 

Thanks for listening to today's edition of Binaural Audio World, if you liked it don't forget to subscribe for a new edition every Tuesday. Do feel free to recommend this podcast to a friend! As always, I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition. You can send a voicenote to me using this link: binauralaudioworld You can email me: binauralaudioworld@gmail.com #SFX #Binaural 

Video here: https://youtu.be/MmXUV-3ixVc

Join me on a walk through West Quay Shopping Centre in the city centre of Southampton, UK.

Thanks for listening to today's edition of Binaural Audio World, if you liked it don't forget to subscribe for a new edition every Tuesday. Do feel free to recommend this podcast to a friend!

As always, I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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Welcome to Clarence Pier Arcade in Portsmouth, UK.

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It's an object that's in nearly every home, and some say the sound of it is very relaxing. Let me know if it helps you....

Thanks for listening to today's edition of Binaural Audio World, if you liked it don't forget to subscribe for a new edition every Tuesday. Do feel free to recommend this podcast to a friend!

As always, I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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Two questions: Do we take notice of everything we hear, and what actually is a code zero?

Thanks for listening to today's edition of Binaural Audio World, if you liked it don't forget to subscribe for a new edition every Tuesday. Do feel free to recommend this podcast to a friend!

As always, I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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Join me this week as I travel on Wightlink’s Wight Ryder 2 ferry from Ryde to Portsmouth, on the south coast of Great Britian. 

As always, I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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This week I take a trip on Europe’s only scheduled passenger hovercraft service! It’s the Hovertravel service from Southsea to Ryde on the Isle of Wight,  off the south coast of mainland Great Britain. It’s actually the WORLD’s longest running commercial hovercraft service, launched in 1965. It’s estimated to have carried over 26 million passengers on various craft since then. 

Here are some photos of the Hovercraft I flew on

Thanks for listening to today's edition of Binaural Audio World, if you liked it don't forget to subscribe for a new edition every Tuesday. And feel free to recommend this podcast to a friend!

As always, I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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This week I’m picking up street ambience from Southampton city centre in the UK. If you know it, I’m in Above Bar, just outside the entrance to the busy West Quay shopping centre, which will feature in a future episode.

Join me on a walk along the pedestrianised street, then along the busier road, and back again. Listen out for random snippets of conversations, buses, traffic and more!

Thanks for listening to today's edition of Binaural Audio World, if you liked it don't forget to subscribe for a new edition every Tuesday. And feel free to recommend this podcast to a friend! 

As always, I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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This week we're at Skiathos Airport, famous with pilots for being one of the trickiest places to land because of the shortness of the runway, and famous with planespotters as being one of the few airports in the world where you can be riduculously close to planes landing and taking off. This edition includes two landings and one take-off. All Boeng 737's. The noise is very loud! 

As always, I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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This week we're harbourside in the Port of Skiathos Town in the Greek Islands. I'm sitting on a balcony overlooking the harbourside, in the early evening. There are restaurants and bars directly below me, and the water, full of moored boats of all shapes and sizes, is less than 50 metres away. There's a large car ferry off to my right which you'll hear loading, then departing as the recording continues. There's a tree between me and the water, you'll hear the breeze in the leaves too.

As always, I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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This week features the highly relaxing sounds of a quiet beach near a taverna on a quiet Greek island. Listen carefully to hear an unintentional recreation of a famous scene from the movie Shirley Valentine!

As always, I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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This week features a flight from London Stanstead airport to the Greek island of Skiathos. We start with boarding the Airbus, through to takeoff and a little bit of cruising.  It's like you're taking a vacation! (Or 'holiday', as we say in the UK).

As always, I'd love to know if there are any sounds you'd like me to capture for a future edition.

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Today's soundscape was recorded at the seaside, at the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour, on the pebble beach which is accessed through the historic city walls. It's not a well-known spot. Unless you happen to live there, it's a well-kept secret from many tourists. People use the area to swim, but it's also busy with boats of all sizes, including cross-channel ferries and the occasional warship.

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Today's soundscape was recorded on the passenger ferry that makes the short harbour crossing from Gosport to Portsmouth here on the south coast of England. It's a very popular service used by thousands of people every day. We start with boarding in Portsmouth, then the journey across the harbour, and finally disembark to the outside world in Gosport. 

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Today's episode was recorded at Hillhead harbour, a very small harbour next to a nature reserve. There are ducks, swans and geese from the nearby nature reserve in the water, and cylclists, joggers, dog walkers and cars on the mainly quiet road behind me. I hope the sound of the wind hitting the rigging and masts of the boats in the water is soothing.

Please subscribe if you liked today's episode, and do share it with someone if you think they would like it too.

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I wanted to capture the atmosphere of a busy coffee shop, complete with the sounds of coffee making, and people chatting over a beverage. It starts with me queing at the counter to order my drink and snack, with around 15 minutes of ambience as I sit at a window table by the door. Then I leave and cross the road outside the coffee shop. 

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Yesterday here in the UK we were told the sad new of the passing of Queen Elizbeth the 2nd, and today she's been honoured with 96 gun salutes from the british armed forces across the country. One of those salutes took place this afternoon at the royal Historic Dockyard in Porstsmouth. 

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Hi, it’s Andy here with my first immersive field recording for  Binaural Audio World. This episode is around 15 minutes long and is a start to finish shopping trip to the supermarket. It starts and finishes in my car. See if you can work out which UK supermarket I’m at by the sounds you hear - Each different brand of store has a slightly different ambience!

The recording is best listened to on headphones. Do let me know how, why, and where you listen - are you using it to help you sleep, are you just curious, or is there another reason. You can send me a voice note or an email to binauralaudioworld@gmail.com 

I’d also love to know if there are any sounds or locations you’d like me to visit and record.

By the way - If you do get so relaxed that you doze off while the field recording is playing, don’t worry - I promise I’ll come out of it very gently!

Headphones on! This two minute trailer introduces you to the world of binaural audio listening - A totally immersive way of listening to sound that actually makes you feel you are where the recording is happening. The first sound you'll hear is me testing my microphone setup at sea out on the Solent, between the UK mainland and the Isle of Wight. Sounds best on headphones.