Audio windows is an auditory-object manager, a potentially powerful implementation of a user interface (frontend) to an audio imaging system. The generalized control model of a window is (by analogy to graphical windows, as in a desktop metaphor) an organizational vehicle in the interface, and has nothing to do with room acoustics. We have been studying applications and implementation techniques of audio windows for use in providing multimedia communications. The general idea is to permit multiple simultaneous audio sources such as in a teleconference, to coexist in a modifiable display without clutter or user stress, to realize some of the same kinds of benefits achieved by distribution of visual objects in graphical user interfaces.