Re: [Sursound] The horse test: a (possible) experiment to throw light on the cognitive role in spatial perception

2012-06-12 Thread Augustine Leudar
a successful illusion of reality... or to create reality-equivalence. Etienne -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120612/8f269f8d/attachment.html

Re: [Sursound] The horse test: a (possible) experiment to throw light on the cognitive role in spatial perception

2012-06-12 Thread Dave Malham
On 12/06/2012 09:00, Augustine Leudar wrote: From experience doing sound installations the illusion of insect noise in a forest is completely destroyed if anyone can see a speaker. If the speakers are hidden you can get away with what would otherwise be considered unconvincing spatial cues

[Sursound] Ambisonia : BitTorrent

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Chapman
I suspect that this was well considered when Ambisonia was moved to York, but I'll ask anyway : Does York have sufficient bandwidth (and is it willing to allow its use) for Ambisonia downloads to be just that : i.e. file downloads direct* from the server ? If not, I'll get the cold towels out,

Re: [Sursound] The Sound of Vision (Mirage-sonics?)

2012-06-12 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 06/12/2012 11:32 AM, Richard Dobson wrote: It is also a concept that needs clarification not least with respect to questions of temperament - do people with absolute pitch insist on 12T Equal Temperament based on A=440? Or it is a broad categorical distinction, like recognising red as red and

Re: [Sursound] The Sound of Vision (Mirage-sonics?)

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Dobson
On 12/06/2012 11:55, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: On 06/12/2012 11:32 AM, Richard Dobson wrote: It is also a concept that needs clarification not least with respect to questions of temperament - do people with absolute pitch insist on 12T Equal Temperament based on A=440? Or it is a broad

Re: [Sursound] The horse test: a (possible) experiment to throw light on the cognitive role in spatial perception

2012-06-12 Thread Augustine Leudar
bah - you ruin everything Dave - I was really looking forward to trying to justify bringing a horse into our department and using this list as justification for such randomness Although the principle is sound, there's a problem with using a horse - they have a very big presence, not least

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonia : BitTorrent

2012-06-12 Thread etienne deleflie
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Re: [Sursound] Ambisonia : BitTorrent

2012-06-12 Thread Marc Lavallée
Bittorrent works well: the more people will download and seed files from Ambisonia, the more bandwidth will be available to all. With only a few seeders, I was able to download some files at 500K bytes per second. On Ambisonia the defaut download speed is limited to 100K, to save bandwidth from

Re: [Sursound] The Sound of Vision (Mirage-sonics?)

2012-06-12 Thread umashankar mantravadi
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Re: [Sursound] Can anyone explain this ?

2012-06-12 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 06/12/2012 01:49 PM, Augustine Leudar wrote: Ok so you might not get the same effect on the speakers you're using and maybe its not your taste in music (its not really mine either but...) several people have told me they do get this effect . On this track :

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonia : BitTorrent

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Chapman
Thanks Paul : Somebody (perhaps you) already suggested Opera. And yes I have installed it and it does 'work'. I didn't want to put my 'personal' problems on the list, but ah well: Opera is now trying to route through some proprietory ADSL box . . . and I'm trying to understand the opaque