From: Kevin Austin (kevin.austin@videotron.ca)
Date: Sun Sep 19 2010 - 07:39:17 EDT
And from a more aesthetic point of view, it might be that there is no desire / need / attempt to duplicate / replicate / portray any 'real' situation at all.
A number of painters a century ago gave up the idea that on a two dimensional surface they were trying to represent a three-dimension reality.
Does this look like a moon, the sky, haystacks and a corn field?
or a horse, a river, trees, sky and a city?
A nude and a staircase?
And little wonder that Picasso's Duo for Guitar and Violin isn't played much these days. considering the apparent condition of the intruments ...
(not to mention his models!).
and portraying reality
Perhaps the use of space can be about inventing, defining and refining imaginary acoustical environments rather than representing / simulating them.
In some recent MIDI-instrument work, I added different kinds of reverb to different instruments, and then put them all inside a single larger reverberation field. This is a kind of collage technique where the elements of the collage, torn from magazines, are in different styles, but brought together within a single frame. The creation of acoustical (and aesthetic) unity in ea collage is (another) [IMV[ un-researched area, creatively or critically.
Kevin
On 2010, Sep 19, at 4:33 AM, lawrence casserley wrote:
> An interesting point about Kontakte is that KS specifies speakers in a "diamond" shape, at Centre Front, Left, Right and Centre Back. In my experience some of the movements do seem to be more coherent in this configuration.
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> Another comment on this is my experimentation with a terahedral configuration in the 70s. In a surround theatre the tetrahedron was installed in the centre stage area (ie audience around the speakers, rather than speakers around the audience). I found this gave a very strong sense of spatial distribution, which was discernable from wherever one sat. The tetrahedron was skewed so that one corner (speaker) was at floor level, one was quite high and two were at medium height.
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> Best
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> Lawrence
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> On 19 Sep 2010, at 02:31, Kevin Austin wrote:
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>> This is found in Kontakte. And what I find interesting here is that when the signal is 'between' speakers, its amplitude is reduced. The analogy I use is to imagine that you are sitting in a room and in each corner there is a window. You see a car go past the front left window, then the front right, then the right back, then the left back etc. There are no windows in the sides of the room.
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> Lawrence Casserley - lawrence@lcasserley.co.uk
> Lawrence Electronic Operations - www.lcasserley.co.uk
> Eye Music Trust Ltd - www.eyemusic.org.uk
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