Eric Carmichel wrote: > Greetings to All, > Just a few thoughts regarding recent posts and the argon-filled sphere. > Martin, I definitely boo-booed by suggesting the recording would be made in > an all-argon atmosphere. But comparing the *sound* one might experience > between the two conditions (air vs argon) might have been interesting.
It gets worse. The sphere will be filled with liquid argon at about -190 deg C. For Canadians, like me, this is no big deal. ... > If someone wished to do hyper-real sound design for sci-fi movies, he/she > would have to consider how we might sound and hear in alien atmospheres. But > I guess Captain Kirk wouldn't have appeared too manly had he started talking > like Mickey Mouse while in a rarified environment. Actually, the ideas of > echoes and sound on distant planets might be of value... one of these > years. In the titles of the original Star Trek, as the Enterprise zooms past the camera it makes a whooshing sound. The makers knew that this was wrong -- that in space there would be no sound -- but they found that, without the whoosh, it just looked wrong. Quite often, hyper-real design appears unrealistic. This is presumably because it is completely outside the experience of the audience. Movies are entertainment, and there is a need to preserve the willing suspension of disbelief. Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/ _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
