Hi Richard and hi everybody, of course you can say I gave my availability to go there and record the IRs and Sweeps.. I am impressed how you could organize things so quickly and effectively, and I'll be delighted to do that.
I drive through the Gran Sasso tunnel almost every week, and entering in that iconic laboratory for physics will be of course thrilling. I'll bring an ST450 as from the original idea, but also a built sphere with Schoeps CCM2s' and a couple of DPA 4060s for a quick self-weared binhaural as well.. I think these three methods will give a fairly complete 'picture' of the space and differently usable sound files.. Apart from the weird resonant space of the small metal sphere - a resonator to be used for sure for sonification pourposes as you said - I think the acoustics of the big tank containing the sphere, will be more usable as an interesting reverb. So I'll try to do both if there will be time.. Advices are welcome and thank you.. But please don't tell me to float in argon for too long... :o) David Il giorno 08/feb/2013, alle ore 22.53, Richard Dobson ha scritto: > A follow-up: > > I was contacted off-list, and it looks like things are going ahead - we have > permission from one of the PIs for the recording, and there is not really > anything else for me to do now apart from hope it all happens, and eventually > receive some soundfiles. Time is tight. I am waiting for permission to say > here who is doing it; suffice it to say they are local to Gran Sasso, are > well equipped, and can act at short notice. It has all developed since this > morning with a flurry of emails. > > It appears that we can sample both the sphere (which will be filled with > argon) and the enclosing water tank. An overview of the whole site is shown > here: > > http://www.nature.com/news/gran-sasso-s-chamber-of-physics-7.4635?article=1.10696 > > Thank you to everyone who offered to help. I have had to act quickly so I > could not really leave time for multiple offers to come in. And thank you > also for the interesting discussion re argon acoustics etc! Whether it will > ever be possible to run such a test actually in an argon atmosphere remains > to be seen; I hope the physicists will be tantalised by the whole exercise, > at least. One slightly interesting aspect is that it took a little while to > explain exactly what we are trying to do - even today the PI felt it > necessary to tell me that the detector itself, to be installed inside the > sphere, will not make any sound of its own. So possibly the concept of > sampling an acoustic is not as familiar to physicists as we might all assume! > So anyone living close to a large particle physics research installation > should henceforth be prepared for the call, some day, some time. > > So, if this does happen, I hope it may help to alert physicists to the > possibilities, to ensure that whenever they make a large cavern or container, > they get its acoustics sampled as a matter of course! Whether there is a > paper to be written about this exercise remains to be seen... > > Richard Dobson > > > > On 06/02/2013 15:31, Richard Dobson wrote: > .. >> The news report says the detector (including, presumably, the argon) >> will be placed inside "in the next few weeks", which is pretty vague, >> but implies it will all be up and running by April. I hope to get some >> more inside info on the real timetable, but this does suggest there is >> unfortunately not much time to play with. >> >> Richard Dobson >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sursound mailing list >> Sursound@music.vt.edu >> https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound >> > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20130209/167dd566/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
