as a location sound mixer, i exploited the visual reinforcement of sound in many situations. if you are recording half a dozen people speaking, and the camera focus on one - provided the sound is in synch - the person in picture will sound louder, nearer the mic, than the others. it is a surprisingly strong effect, and one side benefit is you can check for synch very quickly using it. umashankar
i have published my poems. read (or buy) at http://stores.lulu.com/umashankar > Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 03:09:40 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Sursound] Catching the same fly twice (and a curious question) > > I once had a piece played atspatial audio concert and some people came to > visit. Afterwards one guy came up to me and said - the sound was right > there - right there in front of my face ! Was it ambionics ? Im pretty sure > he just heard what he expected or hoped to hear - simply because he > thought it was "ambisonics" and thats what he expected. I didnt get os > dramatic an effect and I made it ! > I think a really good related example of this sort of thing is WALLACH, H. > (1940) The role of head movements and vestibular and visual cues in sound > localization. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 27, 339-368.,,,, which > demonstrates that visual cues can completely overide audio cues when it > comes to sound localisation. > Im beginning to think that people often hear what they believe they are > going to hear and that the context in which you put the sounds can be as > important as the filtering etc you apply to the sounds. > > > the argument essentially says that for something to appear real it has to > > fit people's *pre-conception* of what is real, rather than fit what > > actually is real. In other words, throw out veridicality (coincidence with > > reality), instead try to satisfy people's belief of reality. This is an > > other argument for questioning the extent to which physical modelling has > > the capacity to create illusions of reality in sound. > > > > It is perfectly possible that a more accurate illusion is actually > > perceived as less real than a less accurate one. > > > > Etienne > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: < > > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120601/e589e92b/attachment.html > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sursound mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120602/ed042cbe/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120602/7a555db0/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
