Incidentally, I may come across as interested only in classical music(true) but popular music is the same way. Anyone watch the Country Music awards show(you cannot get more grass roots popular than that). See a lot of country music singers doing antiphonal calling from all over the auditorium? Or did you see a bunch of people on stage in front? I did not watch myself, but if there were a lot of the former I would be amazed.
Spatial music has a place in the world, just as does 12 tone row music and aleatoric music and a lot of other things that came and went(12 tone did pretty well for itself for a while, but times change). But most music is still in front. And it is likely to stay there. Whatever one thinks of how things ought to be, if a system is ever going to enter the mainstream , it needs to be offering something that lots of people want. Stereo took off because it sounded enough better that people did not mind the doubling up of everything. Personally I think that some sort of surround is worthwhile, because one likes feeling immersed, if only in ambience. Ambisonics is probably the best way to do this. Or maybe not. But my point is that the general public is not given a chance to find out! And offbeat recordings of peculiar music that not very many people will ever hear is not how one is going to reach the public. Wny don't Ambisonics people do show demos? Robert _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
