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Re: Sonic seascape terrace - viewing and listening

Subject: Re: Sonic seascape terrace - viewing and listening
From: "Bernie Krause" bigchirp1
Date: Fri Mar 9, 2012 6:15 am ((PST))
Makes perfect sense. While the result of ambisonic is often magical,
to record, then set up and calibrate a comprehensive playback system
is enormously complicated (assuming one can find the "sweet spot").

Bernie


On Mar 8, 2012, at 10:53 PM, revery wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Came across this item in an architectural design magazine which I
> think is is a beautiful concept. Essentially it provides a realtime
> constructed 'surround' sound environment within an open viewing
> pavilion of the underwater sounds in the seascape you are looking at.
>
> The technical summary given is very brief -
>
>> Underwater sounds picked up by submerged hydrophones are digitized
>> and sent with Internet audio streaming to computer running an Max/
>> MSP application which analyzes, processes and organizes the signals
>> into an ambi-sonic four-channel soundscape composition. Speaker
>> systems built inside the walls of the terrace located on the
>> shoreline, diffuse the real-time soundscape around the listeners.
>
> The link I have is      http://www.dezeen.com/2011/09/14/sonic-seascape-t=
errace-by-decoster-taivalkoski-haaslahti-and-montes-de-oca/
>
>
> Worth a look if you haven't heard of it.
>
> Ray.
>
>
>
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> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
> Krause.
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