On 26/02/2013, at 9:01 AM, etienne deleflie wrote:

> Jorn,
> 
> it turned out that this monster of a piece is unkillable, no matter what we
>> tried. so this evil little bear of little brain but inexhaustible
>> mischievousness folded it down to mono, out of pure spite. the sound was
>> still all over the place. chowning 10, bear 0.
>> 
>> and here's to fake doppler shifts.
>> 
> 
> I'd say your observation, which I agree with, suggests that space can be
> perceived through the  identification of sound artefacts that act as
> 'icons' (Peirce) or 'symbols' of our experience of space. In other words,
> the realistic projection of spatial acoustic stimuli owes much of its
> success to the fact that we recognise the effect of space on sound
agreed. 
see my Space in sound: sound of space. Organised Sound Vol 3 No. 2 Cambridge 
University Press (1998) pp 93-99.

> ... and
> accurate spatial projection is, in fact, not required to activate that
> recognition (but supports it well, of course)
> 
> Also, Chowning's Turenas makes extensive use of the relative relationship
> between direct sound and reverberant sound, as a means to perceive
> distance. He also uses a directional reverberation, for extremely far
> sounds

James Moorer wrote a now classic paper about this, which JC and his generation 
used extensively:
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/courses/papers/Moorer-Reverb-CMJ-1979.pdf


see also
http://christianfloisand.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/algorithmic-reverbs-the-moorer-design/

David

> ... where what is primarily heard is the reverberant field but it
> comes from a specific direction. These may be as responsible, perhaps even
> more so than Doppler, for acting as 'icons' of space.
> 
> I like Peter's suggestion that Doppler is perhaps best seen as a cue of
> something passing. Good cue for revealing if one has missed the bus!
> 
> Etienne
> 
> 
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