On 20 November 2015 at 19:58, David Pickett <d...@fugato.com> wrote:
Another one. Sic transit...
What the hell is acousmatic? Sounds like asthmatic.
At 22:29 20-11-15, Dave Malham wrote:
Hmm - well, it is a very "European" thing.
I must have been away too long! But I just find
it strange to need to assign a name to something
that has been around since before Varèse (1957,
nearly 60 years). If I may say so, it is more
characteristic of US Americans to do this.
in a very simplistic way, it could be said that
it is music that is designed to be heard *only* through loudspeakers.
At 22:42 20-11-15, Eero Aro wrote:
Hmmmm...well. Yes, basicly.
As used today, in film/cinema sound, an acousmatic sound is something you
can hear, but you cannot see the actual source of the sound in the picture.
Which brings us back to why Blumlein invented
stereo. Yet even the IMAX version of Spectre has
the voices all panned centre! Concerning which,
I sat in a good seat (very comfortable!) and was
appalled at the lack of coherence of the sound
generally. I have heard better string tone from
a synthesizer, and even my ancient ears found everything 10dB too loud.
David
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