This is also something I've been wondering about and trying to achieve in sound installations. A fly landed on a microphone once when I was recording in the jungle and when played back it sort of worked - sort of - but I do think the cognitive visual factors (the sound installation was in a large indoor jungle at the eden project) helped enormously with believability - but anyone listening carefully would have heard a fly about 1 foot high ! I am told Wavefiled synthesis what you decribe , though haven't heard it myelf - I will be building a small WFS setup this summer - quite looking forward to hearing it. Another low tech solution which is really crude but would probably work would be to have a tiny speaker on an invisible string and pulley system pulling it round the room. We are considering introducing fireflies to the sound installation this year and that was one idea that crossed my mind.... Realistic proximity is a tricky thing to achieve !
>FA > This touches on something i've wondered for a while now. Discrete surround > always sounds as though it's in a fixed ring to me. Sounds are always the > same > distance away. I've experianced that with binaural recordings as well. Is > there > a surround sound method that will reproduce actual depth enough so that you > could track the movment of a fly in a room? I'd love a system where i > could hear > a fly moving towards my face, veering off a few inches away, moving at a > diagonal to 5' away then zig-zaging back and around my head. > > Would the lack of a visual component effect that strongly? I can still > locate a > fly without seeing it. > > Can ambisonics do that with a good mic for the W? > > Thanks, > > Bearcat > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: not available > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 198 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120529/b153f60d/attachment.bin > > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > 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/20120530/352e76fd/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
