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>From Wired okt02000
"... Talman uses the standing waves - the so-called room tone - of a space
to create multichannel, site-specific pieces often alternately described as
absolutely bewildering and heavenly. He begins by recording a room's
silence, then runs it through a sonogram analysis program designed by Swiss
programmer Martin Hairer. The ouput sohws the frequencies that resonate the
best. These are then imported into a digital editing-program that Talman
has tweaked to produce neck-twisting eight-channel extravaganzas. He calls
the result sonic architecture.
'If you are good at listening, you can hear actual "sound objects" coming
into being in space and then moving through the room,' says Talman. 'I
wouldn't call it music. It's way beyond that."
Well, apart from the mumbo-jumbo and the "...it's way beyond that." it's a
pretty cool idea. Sounds would probably not be sounding like coming from
the speakers, but the whole room would be radiating the sound... And if
acoustically refelctive you would get terrific reverb.
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