Phil Coleman is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey in the UK. He currently conducts research into audio technology for personalised audio experiences, mentors/supervises postgraduate research students, and teaches the theory of audio engineering to undergraduates.
Here he presents a range of AES and external resources that provide an excellent introduction to the field.
Phil explains that sound field control can be broadly interpreted as the process of creating a set of loudspeaker signals to create a certain listening experience over a listening area. The desired sound fields may be physically or perceptually defined, and can cover a wide range of use cases. These can range from delivering a uniform listening experience to multiple listeners over a wide area, to delivering a personalized listening experience to an individual listener inhabiting a small zone.
