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.


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