Mono could also be understood as 4D (or 3D space) .... in the sense that one can easily recognise certain acoustic spaces with a mono recording..... such as a recording of someone talking in a church.
There will be very clear cues, within that recording, that the voice was captured within a large space that has high ceilings and is bounded by hard surfaces. The difference, of course, is that here the perception of space occurs through 'references' that exist within the sound.... rather than through experiencing the simulation or mimesis of sensory data. And by extension a piece of music performed by an orchestra can also be understood as 4D in the sense that musical form can also allude to space. In the mono sound recording the reference to space can be classified as an 'icon' (after Peirce's Semiological framework) the captured reverberation 'sounds similar' to the sound of a real experienced church. In a piece of music, the reference might be 'indexical': if you hear a bird-like sound, it might reference some form of height. That said, some pieces of music, such as Ligeti's Lontano, very clearly reference space as 'icons'. The long slow changes in sound loundness 'sound similar' to the real-world witnessing of moving through large landscapes. The important question, for the composer, is which holds the greater aesthetic movement? Is it the illusion of reality that is possible with technology and simulation? ... or is it the realm of meaning that the listener is enveloped by when listening to musical form? Etienne On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Dave Malham <dave.mal...@york.ac.uk> wrote: > Ah, but if that's the case, mono is 2-D sound, stereo is 3-D sound........ > :-) > > > On 5 March 2014 11:08, Ronald C.F. Antony <r...@cubiculum.com> wrote: > >> >> On 5 Mar 2014, at 11:58, Dave Malham <dave.mal...@york.ac.uk> wrote: >> >> > And now, 4-D sound >> > >> > >> http://createdigitalmusic.com/2014/03/full-immersion-audio-artists-explore-4dsound-spatial-grid-omni-speakers-ableton-max-lemur/ >> > >> > X, Y, Z and....... >> >> Time, it's 3-D sound in Space-Time ;) >> >> Ronald >> _______________________________________________ >> Sursound mailing list >> Sursound@music.vt.edu >> https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound >> > > > > -- > > As of 1st October 2012, I have retired from the University. > > These are my own views and may or may not be shared by the University > > Dave Malham > Honorary Fellow, Department of Music > The University of York > York YO10 5DD > UK > > 'Ambisonics - Component Imaging for Audio' > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20140305/707e58e6/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound -- http://etiennedeleflie.net _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
