Re: [Sursound] Acousmatic

2015-11-21 Thread Marc Lavallée
Thanks Ero for the reference. The contribution of Michel Chion is major to understand a world where large part of sounds are coming from loudspeakers. His acousmatic music is also excellent. A bilingual glossary is available from his web site: http://michelchion.com/texts Also a free eBook editio

Re: [Sursound] OT: Opportunities for Study and Funding at the University of Birmingham / BEAST

2015-11-21 Thread Scott Wilson
Actually I’m enjoying this discussion, and considering opening up a new research area in ‘asthmatic composition’. ;-) S. > On 21 Nov 2015, at 10:23, Jörn Nettingsmeier > wrote: > > On 11/21/2015 11:15 AM, Dave Malham wrote: >> Not quite sure how we got from defining acousmatic music to film s

Re: [Sursound] OT: Opportunities for Study and Funding at the University of Birmingham / BEAST

2015-11-21 Thread Michael Chapman
> And yet another reason - with dialogue in glorious mono on one channel, > dubbing for other languages is super-easy. > > Richard Dobson > Mmm,but if the dialogue is not understandable (loosely, 'inaudible') does that matter? To descend into bad taste : What's the betting the average ISIS video*

Re: [Sursound] OT: Opportunities for Study and Funding at the University of Birmingham / BEAST

2015-11-21 Thread Richard Dobson
And yet another reason - with dialogue in glorious mono on one channel, dubbing for other languages is super-easy. Richard Dobson On 21/11/2015 10:52, Eero Aro wrote: .. Ever since, 99% of all dialogue has been placed in the center channel for the reasons Dave is describing. There are even mo

Re: [Sursound] OT: Opportunities for Study and Funding at the University of Birmingham / BEAST

2015-11-21 Thread Eero Aro
Sorry, still continuing the off-topic with this subject. Dave Malham wrote: ...they sure as hell notice if voices don't "come from the actor's mouth". Hehe. A propos Blumlein: Reminds me of the story told in the Blumlein biography, which explains how Blumlein became interested about "binaural

Re: [Sursound] OT: Opportunities for Study and Funding at the University of Birmingham / BEAST

2015-11-21 Thread Dave Malham
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[Sursound] Acousmatic

2015-11-21 Thread Eero Aro
Dave Malham wrote: Not quite sure how we got from defining acousmatic music to film sound I mentioned that the word is used with cinema sound. It's not just music that can be acousmatic, it's sound as such. Michel Chion has developed a number of conceptions that were needed to be able to dis

Re: [Sursound] OT: Opportunities for Study and Funding at the University of Birmingham / BEAST

2015-11-21 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 11/21/2015 11:15 AM, Dave Malham wrote: Not quite sure how we got from defining acousmatic music to film sound, but... For the record, we got here from Scott announcing study opportunities (a hazy after-image of the original intention of this thread is still visible in the subject line).

Re: [Sursound] OT: Opportunities for Study and Funding at the University of Birmingham / BEAST

2015-11-21 Thread Dave Malham
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Re: [Sursound] OT: Opportunities for Study and Funding at the University of Birmingham / BEAST

2015-11-21 Thread Richard Dobson
I totally agree; and found much the same on many of the recent Bond films. 'Tomorrow Never Dies' was especially overladen and noisy; perhaps they felt they had to cover up the more than usually silly plot. But I do have to acknowledge that the sound system in our local Frome cinema is probably n

Re: [Sursound] OT: Opportunities for Study and Funding at the University of Birmingham / BEAST

2015-11-21 Thread Michael Chapman
David Pickett wrote: > > Which brings us back to why Blumlein invented > stereo. Yet even the IMAX version of Spectre has > the voices all panned centre! Concerning which, > I sat in a good seat (very comfortable!) and was > appalled at the lack of coherence of the sound > generally. I have he