Richard: > So, what ~is~ the point of this list, exactly?
To discuss the opportunity to PLAY with *sound* with our friends in a DIGITAL world! Mass-markets (i.e. "programming" large numbers of people who you will never know) come from a different era -- the "electric" media era *before* computers came to dominate our environment. The LIST only exists because of *computers* and so does current Ambisonics practice. We are *digital* now and no longer *analog/electrical* , , , We are not in KANSAS anymore (for those not familiar with Americanisms, this means that we live in a completely different world now from the 1920s or 1950s)! We are so poorly equipped to understand these sorts of changes in our environment and the impact that they have on us, that some people actually believe that Facebook has an "audience" of 800 million people. It doesn't. I has many, many thousands of SMALL groups (typically of dozens to around a hundred people each), which overlap and extend in a myriad of ways. There is no MASS audience on Facebook -- which is why it will ultimately fail as an advertising-driven "investment" for many who make the mistake of not just "speculating" on its rise-and-fall. Expecting that Ambisonics would participate in a MASS *media* phenomenon when the world is aggressively moving *away* from ANY activities of this sort is to fundamentally misunderstand the times in which we live. The "failure" isn't in the Ambisonics "people" or in the "technology" -- what is happening is entirely appropriate for our times. Small *is* BEAUTIFUL . . . so we might as well admit it and enjoy ourselves! <g> Mark Stahlman Brooklyn NY -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120402/595f5771/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
