Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-12 Thread Carsten Bohn
Hello Stefan ! Not that this is extremly important, but... This list has an amazing side-effect, which is : getting to know new words things that I haven't heard as off now, f.e. M?l?e : which Google translates in german to something like fray in naval warfare? !? M?l?e?

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-11 Thread Charlie Richmond
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Stefan Schreiber st...@mail.telepac.ptwrote: Sampo Syreeni wrote: How about a simple group called ambisonic or Ambisonics, in FB? There already is an ambisonics group in fb:

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-11 Thread Augustine Leudar
What about a forum ? I mean mailing lists are s 1980s - with a forum you can easily see/search for earlier posts and topics ? Is such a suggestion blasphemous ? On 11 October 2012 17:55, Charlie Richmond charlie@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Stefan Schreiber

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-11 Thread Marc Lavallée
Email is still a valid and reliable technology. For archives (with search): https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/ http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.sursound Marc Augustine Leudar augustineleu...@gmail.com a écrit : What about a forum ? I mean mailing lists are s 1980s -

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-11 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Martin Leese wrote: Carsten Bohn wrote: It has sort of got lost in the melee. ... This list has an amazing side-effect, which is : getting to know new words things that I haven't heard as off now, f.e. M?l?e : which Google translates in german to something like fray in naval

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-11 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Augustine Leudar wrote: What about a forum ? I mean mailing lists are s 1980s - with a forum you can easily see/search for earlier posts and topics ? Is such a suggestion blasphemous ? No, but forums are s 90s. FB is sooo noughties. Best, Stefan On 11 October 2012 17:55,

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-11 Thread Charlie Richmond
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Stefan Schreiber st...@mail.telepac.ptwrote: Augustine Leudar wrote: What about a forum ? I mean mailing lists are s 1980s - with a forum you can easily see/search for earlier posts and topics ? Is such a suggestion blasphemous ? No, but forums are

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-11 Thread Aaron Heller
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Charlie Richmond charlie@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Stefan Schreiber st...@mail.telepac.ptwrote: Sampo Syreeni wrote: How about a simple group called ambisonic or Ambisonics, in FB? There already is an ambisonics group in fb:

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-11 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 10/11/2012 06:59 PM, Augustine Leudar wrote: What about a forum ? I mean mailing lists are s 1980s - with a forum you can easily see/search for earlier posts and topics ? Is such a suggestion blasphemous ? not at all. if a facebook group works for some people, by all means go ahead.

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-11 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2012-10-11, Charlie Richmond wrote: How about a simple group called ambisonic or Ambisonics, in FB? There already is an ambisonics group in fb: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ambisonics/https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ambisonics/108150639213488?fref=ts On FB, pages and groups are

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-11 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2012-10-11, Augustine Leudar wrote: What about a forum? An FB group is definitely a forum already. I mean mailing lists are s 1980s - with a forum you can easily see/search for earlier posts and topics? If search functionality is wanted, I'd advocate for more and better

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-11 Thread etienne deleflie
However, I do see there is a Surround Music group on FB that looks pretty active. https://www.facebook.com/groups/472608276094365/ a quote from that page: I’m playing a VDT (Verband Deutche Tonmeister) event at Galaxy 10/6 using an 8.0 setup (quad on the ground and quad in the air). I don’t

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-11 Thread etienne deleflie
I think the *real* problem is that sursound does not have a publicly available archive. Etienne On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:52 PM, etienne deleflie edelef...@gmail.com wrote: However, I do see there is a Surround Music group on FB that looks pretty active.

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-11 Thread Michael Chapman
Also http://www.mail-archive.com/sursound@music.vt.edu/ M. I think the *real* problem is that sursound does not have a publicly available archive. Etienne You are at http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.sursound/2709 ... and I always thought this list was 'private' ... ;-( (I

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-11 Thread etienne deleflie
yes indeed, my mistake. Etienne On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Michael Chapman s...@mchapman.com wrote: Also http://www.mail-archive.com/sursound@music.vt.edu/ M. I think the *real* problem is that sursound does not have a publicly available archive. Etienne You are at

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-10 Thread Carsten Bohn
It has sort of got lost in the melee. Try: http://mur.mu.rs/?p=560 https://www.facebook.com/TransDimensionalPortal Regards, Martin This list has an amazing side-effect, which is : getting to know new words things that I haven't heard as off now, f.e. Mêlée : which Google translates in

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-10 Thread Augustine Leudar
It definitely behoves you to remain among us Carsten (=; On 10 October 2012 11:29, Carsten Bohn c...@bignote.de wrote: It has sort of got lost in the melee. Try: http://mur.mu.rs/?p=560 https://www.facebook.com/**TransDimensionalPortalhttps://www.facebook.com/TransDimensionalPortal

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-10 Thread Martin Leese
Carsten Bohn wrote: It has sort of got lost in the melee. ... This list has an amazing side-effect, which is : getting to know new words things that I haven't heard as off now, f.e. M?l?e : which Google translates in german to something like fray in naval warfare? !? My English dictionary

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-10 Thread Augustine Leudar
an academic duel to the death over facebook - swashbuckling stuff ! On 10 October 2012 18:20, Martin Leese martin.le...@stanfordalumni.orgwrote: Carsten Bohn wrote: It has sort of got lost in the melee. ... This list has an amazing side-effect, which is : getting to know new words

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-09 Thread Martin Leese
Augustine Leudar wrote: so ... what's all this about a portal ? It has sort of got lost in the melee. Try: http://mur.mu.rs/?p=560 https://www.facebook.com/TransDimensionalPortal Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web:

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-08 Thread Michael Chapman
Marc Lavallée wrote : This list is not the place to explain why, but I must also mention that I'm strictly non-Facebook. Amen ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-08 Thread Michael Chapman
Eric Benjamin wrote : I don't understand what would be the benefit of a facebook group I certainly sympathize with all of those who have posted anti-facebook comments. That is why I maintain only a minimal facebook presence. But it does seem to me that there are some benefits. Like

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-08 Thread Martin Leese
John Leonard wrote: Hmm, I'm strictly non-Facebook and I'm afraid I'm not going to change my views, even for Ambisonics. Ditto. In my case, the reason was elegantly explained by Douglas Adams: I've [Douglas Adams has] come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technology:

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-08 Thread Richard Dobson
Oh well, looks like I am the odd one out, again...I am on FB, but under what for convenience I will call my stage name, which my friends know and understand but my music students or the idly curious will never find; On 08/10/2012 21:54, Fons Adriaensen wrote: In my case, the *reason* is

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-08 Thread Robert Greene
It is rather alarming how insubstantial it all is-- google ,facebook, apple selling gadgets that are really quite useless and google and facebook making money on ads and no other way(google sells how far up the search list you are but that is ad stuff too in effect) The whole USA and a good deal

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-08 Thread Robert Greene
This is funny but it is of course wrong, I like facebook a lot, but I dislike text messages, and so on. Which general types of things one likes may develop early, but the details are not set in stone. This kind of thing is an excuse for all kinds of bad stuff that is supposed to be progress but

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-08 Thread Augustine Leudar
so ... what's all this about a portal ? On 9 October 2012 01:24, Robert Greene gre...@math.ucla.edu wrote: This is funny but it is of course wrong, I like facebook a lot, but I dislike text messages, and so on. Which general types of things one likes may develop early, but the details are

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-07 Thread Tom Wilkinson
To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal On 2012-10-06, Charlie Richmond wrote: I'd put up a group already if said persons were part of my FB-circuit. I'm in. So you are. The group resides at https://www.facebook.com/groups/355566654536126

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-07 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2012-10-07, Tom Wilkinson wrote: I requested membership. Looking forward to learning as much as I can about Ambisonics. I've been a lurker here a couple years. Do keep your membership here even if the Facebook group succeeds: groups are better for lighter discussion and publicity. Mailing

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-07 Thread Charlie Richmond
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 1:53 PM, John Leonard j...@johnleonard.co.uk wrote: Hmm, I'm strictly non-Facebook and I'm afraid I'm not going to change my views, even for Ambisonics. Sampo changed the name of the group to Surround sound to get away from the ambisonics label and we now have almost

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-07 Thread John Leonard
That's good to hear, but it's one of my rules that I won't subscribe to Facebook. I think it's probably one of the main scourges of the internet, run by a deeply unpleasant person and existing solely for the purpose of selling targeted advertising - or spam. I get enough of that without adding

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-07 Thread Ronald C.F. Antony
On 7 Oct 2012, at 16:53, John Leonard j...@johnleonard.co.uk wrote: I'm strictly non-Facebook and I'm afraid I'm not going to change my views, even for Ambisonics. Ditto. I use FB, but in an extremely limited way, and I refuse to do apps, games, likes and any of that crap. Ronald

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-07 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 10:03:52PM +0100, John Leonard wrote: That's good to hear, but it's one of my rules that I won't subscribe to Facebook. Same here. -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-07 Thread Marc Lavallée
This list is not the place to explain why, but I must also mention that I'm strictly non-Facebook. I hope that the results of the TDP project will be available not only on FB... This project is like my domestic ambisonics project; I postponed it because of a lack of time and energy, but I

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-07 Thread David Pickett
At 15:53 07/10/2012, John Leonard wrote: I'm strictly non-Facebook and I'm afraid I'm not going to change my views, even for Ambisonics. I am with you, John, and the others that have agreed. David ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu

[Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-06 Thread Martin Leese
Hi All, At present, no more details on this are available, but it looks like one to watch: http://mur.mu.rs/?p=560 Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/ ___ Sursound

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-06 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2012-10-06, Aaron Heller wrote: There's more info about this at https://www.facebook.com/TransDimensionalPortal How about a simple group called ambisonic or Ambisonics, in FB? With a number of the current best-knowing, FB-willing people as admins? No transdimensional nonsense there, but