1. A method comprising: inputting one or more audio signals for an audio scene; determining relevant auditory cues that preserve detailed information about sound features over time, said determining comprising: windowing said one or more audio signals, wherein said windowing comprises first and second windowings of different bandwidths to produce a first windowed audio signal and a second windowed audio signal respectively; transforming the first and second windowed audio signals into a transform domain; and calculating said auditory cues based on said first and second windowed audio signals; forming an auditory neurons map comprising paths in the transform domain of the relevant auditory cues; transforming said one or more audio signals into a transform domain; using the auditory neurons map to form a sparse representation of said one or more transformed audio signals; and outputting said sparse representation of said one or more transformed audio signals for at least one of encoding by an encoder and storing in a storage device.