#spatial music

[thebandghostofficial]

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We wish to inform you Ghost's catalog from Infestissumam to present is now available on #AppleMusic in spatial audio.

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[bpod-bpod]

The Ghost Orchestra

Gazing up at the iconic bells of Notre Dame Cathedral you hear music. You spin around looking for musicians, but there’s no-one there. The Ghost Orchestra isn’t supernatural in a spooky way, but uses a combination of acoustics and computer models to recreate the spectre of a French concert. Thousands of miles away in The USA, listeners are surrounded by the sound of 19th century opera "La Vierge" performed on Notre Dame’s 850th birthday – they can even move around the computerised cathedral using virtual reality headsets (pictured), experiencing the disembodied spatial music from different angles. Researchers plan to tailor the sensory experience to different ears, fine-tuning it for differently-abled listeners. The technology is also being used to investigate how visually-impaired people understand and remember unfamiliar places, perhaps making use of hidden creaks and echoes to build a mental picture of the architecture.

Written by John Ankers

Image by Ghost Orchestra Project/LIMSI

Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de L'ingénieur (LIMSI), Orsay, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France

Image copyright held by the photographer

The Ghost Orchestra Project was launched by CNRS Groupe Audio Acoustique in June 2017

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“The Armory is the playground for artists with outsized imaginations.”

                                                       — The Financial Times

Check out what Music Director Alan Gilbert and Rebecca Robertson, president and executive producer of the Park Avenue Armory, have say in this video about the outsized program of spatial music, Philharmonic 360, to be presented by the New York Philharmonic and Park Avenue Armory, June 29-30.

Follow the Sound to the playground of the Armory in this Philharmonic 360 video series.

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Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (December 22, 1883 - November 6, 1965) was a French-born composer, the first to coin the term "organised sound", a term describing the combination of timber and rhythm, creating a whole new level to music. Basically he was the father of electronic music. Just casually. Arguably his most notable work, Poème èlectronique, was a massive spatial installation consisting of around 350 speakers (although some estimates claim figures closer to 450) pumping out his composition, in a pavilion designed and built exclusively for the event. And this was in 1958. Try doing that now and you'll be laughed at. I'm not saying that he wasn't laughed at, but he was French, and that's a whole other issue.