No - HOA could be ideal for achieving spaciousness! - it can achieve that decorrelation so much better...
Dr Peter Lennox School of Technology University of Derby, UK tel: 01332 593155 e: p.len...@derby.ac.uk -----Original Message----- From: sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Dobson Sent: 18 April 2012 14:21 To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] audio point / audio plenum On 18/04/2012 13:55, Gregorio Garcia Karman wrote: > I reckon someone mentioned Stockhausen here but my enquiry is not > related to a piece by him but rather to his british homologous, ie. > one of the electronic music pioneers in England: Roberto Gerhard. > Unfortunately there is not much documentation available relating to > this work, as the piece was never performed. G > "plenum" is a reasonably well-established word (though I can well imagine Stockhausen would find an esoteric meaning for it); and as we all know Gerhard had a mastery of the English language that surpassed what most native-born composers generally managed. See e.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenum_chamber So I think it would be fine to treat it as a succinct expression of the idea of filling the space (um, soundfield?), but not necessarily with any more precise technical meaning, unless, perhaps, "envelopment". Indeed, if anything it may specially signify the ~absence~ of a sense of directionality. (So I guess using HOA is specifically ~not~ indicated here...) Richard Dobson _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound _____________________________________________________________________ The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this email was sent to you in error, please notify the sender and delete this email. Please direct any concerns to info...@derby.ac.uk. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
