Re: [Sursound] Another query..

2013-06-25 Thread Dave Malham
Hi Eero, I'd forgotten about that one even though it is also in my piling system! Interesting to be reminded that Andrew couldn't make his mind up about wether to use capital or lower case 'A' - and also that MAG was at that point a recent member of the team - and that the Ambisonic demo

Re: [Sursound] Another query..

2013-06-25 Thread Eero Aro
Dave Malham wrote: the Ambisonic demo bug was striking even then... Yes, I noticed that too. Makes me wonder if the reason for the slow adaptation of Ambisonics have just been unlucky demonstrations? :-) Eero ___ Sursound mailing list

Re: [Sursound] a query

2013-06-24 Thread Michael Chapman
Interesting - I found the letter through the Uni's electronic journals access. Peter used both ambisonic and ambiphonic ( _not_ Ambiophonic !) in that letter. However, I was then able to go back to his letter in the Feb 8 1973 of that Journal and found that that one also contained

Re: [Sursound] a query

2013-06-24 Thread Michael Chapman
Interesting - I found the letter through the Uni's electronic journals access. Peter used both ambisonic and ambiphonic ( _not_ Ambiophonic !) in that letter. However, I was then able to go back to his letter in the Feb 8 1973 of that Journal and found that that one also contained

Re: [Sursound] a query

2013-06-24 Thread Dave Malham
The letters that Aaron has come up with are really interesting as I hadn't seen them before. I'm really excited to see them as they are definitely fleshing out the early days. However, I'd still appreciate a pointer to the earlier discussion as something is nagging at the back of my mind about

Re: [Sursound] a query

2013-06-24 Thread Dave Malham
Oh well, just finish it, probably better not to return it to the cellar :-) Enjoy Dave On 24 June 2013 20:35, Michael Chapman s...@mchapman.com wrote: Interesting - I found the letter through the Uni's electronic journals access. Peter used both ambisonic and ambiphonic (

[Sursound] Another query..

2013-06-24 Thread Dave Malham
Sorry about this, which is, frankly, just me being too lazy to search my piling system in the attic but does anyone have handy a scanned copy of Peter Fellgett's 'Directional Information in Reproduced Sound,' from the Wireless World, vol. 78, pp. 413-417 (1972 Sept.) Dave Malham -- -- As

Re: [Sursound] Another query..

2013-06-24 Thread Eero Aro
Peter Fellgett's 'Directional Information in Reproduced Sound,' from the Wireless World, vol. 78, pp. 413-417 (1972 Sept.) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22100835/Directional%20Information%20in%20Surround%20Sound%20Peter%20Fellgett%201972.pdf Should be there soon. I think the diocument

Re: [Sursound] Another query..

2013-06-24 Thread Eero Aro
Here's another interesting article from 1974 by Andrew Pozniak: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22100835/1974_Ambisonics_ETI.PDF Eero ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound

[Sursound] a query

2013-06-23 Thread Dave Malham
Hi guys, A year or two ago I seem to remember we had a discussion about the origins of the term Ambisonics and when it was first used. Assuming I am recalling correctly, can anyone remind me when that was as I'm damned if I can come up with a combination of words that brings it up in a

Re: [Sursound] a query

2013-06-23 Thread Gerald Wilson
As I recall, Peter Felgett gave a significant lecture on the subject at the IEE in London in March 1977. By that stage the term Ambisonics had been used by Felgett and Gerzon in several published papers in Wireless World and similar periodicals for about two years previous to that. I think

Re: [Sursound] a query

2013-06-23 Thread Richard G Elen
On 23/06/2013 21:22, Gerald Wilson wrote: they had settled on that terminology after some debate and apologised for mixing Greek and Latin roots; but Felgett pointed out that a precedent had been set by the term television, which in a grammatically pure world would be called either

Re: [Sursound] a query

2013-06-23 Thread Gerald Wilson
Good point. Maybe he was apologising for NOT mixing Greek and Latin roots... (It was a long time ago...) GWW On 23 Jun 2013, at 21:42, Richard G Elen wrote: On 23/06/2013 21:22, Gerald Wilson wrote: they had settled on that terminology after some debate and apologised for mixing Greek and

Re: [Sursound] a query

2013-06-23 Thread Aaron Heller
The term Ambisonics does not appear at all in Fellgett's 9/72 article [1], but is in the title in 11/73 [2]. [1] P. Fellgett, “Directional information in reproduced sound,” Wireless World, vol. 78, no. 1443, pp. 413–417, 1972. [2] P. Fellgett, “Ambisonic reproduction of sound,” Electronics and

Re: [Sursound] a query

2013-06-23 Thread Richard G Elen
On 23/06/2013 21:56, Aaron Heller wrote: The term Ambisonics does not appear at all in Fellgett's 9/72 article [1], but is in the title in 11/73 [2]. The term Periphony incidentally was around in early 1973: M.A. Gerzon, Periphony: With-Height Sound Reproduction, J. Audio Eng. Soc., vol. 21,