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 over.
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. Pretty vague about the rendering of the ambisonic four channel stream, but it is an architectural magazine. As a 'realtime composition' it has the advantage of not having the aim of re-creating an existing soundfield as such. I'd love to hear and see it. The link I have is http://www.dezeen.com/2011/09/14/sonic-seascape-terrace-by-decoster-taivalkoski-haaslahti-and-montes-de-oca/ Ray. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
