Hi, > I am writing to let you know about the largest multichannel sound art > installation in the world at the Eden project. For those unfamiliar with the > Eden Project it is the largest indoor tropical conservatory in the world > covering several acres and presently has lots of speakers hidden in the > bushes ! Hopefully this event is something that would interest you as well > > http://www.edenproject.com/come-and-visit/whats-on/heart-of-darkness.php
Sounds exciting! > hopefully somebody from this list will be able to get down and check it out, > Although the installation is laid out with a very unusual speaker > configuration which included height information as well as surround sound I > have discovered several things during my application of large sound > installations. Discrete sound sources (ie one speaker dedicated to one > sound) work much better than trying to put the sound in a surround sound > image using a surround sound panner in Nuendo or whatever). Leaves act as > fantastic dispersers of souind and the sound of say, insects, sound much > more realistic if the speaker is hidden in the bushes. Depending on how you are rendering and distributing material, DBAP (distance-based amplitude panning) might be of interest as well. It's so far available for MaxMSP as part of Jamoma, as part of Ircam Spatialisateur, and included in the Flux Ircam Spat plugin: http://www.jamoma.org/ http://www.jamoma.org/papers/icmc2009-dbap.pdf http://www.fluxhome.com/products/plug_ins/ircam_spat DBAP doesn't make any assumptions on positioning of loadspeakers or listener, and was developed for installation purposes. > Although the installation is ambisonically laid out many of the recordings > were only taken with surround sound microphones - I am shortly to return to > the amazon with new equipment and would welcome any advice on a good > multichannel recorder and low noise mics to take with me (I reckon I need at > least six inputs for this - sound devices look good but are so expensive - > what are peoples on the Tascam 680 ?) any suggestions welcome. I also look > forward to discussing the best way of recording ambisonically , So far I'm quite happy with the Tascam 680. It's way better to use with the Soundfield 250 than the Edirol. Cheers, Trond _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
