<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: georgia; line-height: 17px; ">Once we escape the tyranny of directed attention and remove our frame we find ourselves cast adrift in the meshing and mixing of indeterminate sounds forming a flux-field of energy,"</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><br></div><div>Excellent essay, I didn't spot any notion of representing the field as the person moves though it? was the focus more on stationary </div><div>recording and allowing the listener to 'be' there with context?</div><div> </div><div>I *really* want to be able to visualize that field, I don't mean to record it (more on that later) but to actually make a 3D scan of something (check) and</div><div>then plot the acoustic interference patterns sound makes over the object (not checked) - finite element analysis may get me</div><div>closer to this goal, but imagine the possibilities for microphone research, dummy heads, and hydrophone structures - Im more</div><div>into the shapes and exploring those from nature that really work the best rather than sticking with tradition. Recent example,</div><div>what if bat ears were placed on a dummy head, how would they sound? or other "ears" and objects.</div><div><br></div><div>Mapping a sound field, where do I sign up to start planting microphone flowers? Thats an interesting project in itself...</div><div><br></div><div>I once tried this with two binaural rigs, I got my friend at work interested in binaural recording, I made him a set of binaural</div><div>headphones (mics) and then we recorded osaka castle simultaneously - I was rather disappointed with the result, it was possible</div><div>to jump location and switch from one "head" to the other, but any notion of extreme diffuse field was lost when attempting to</div><div>take the left channel from one head and the right channel from the (other) head, very interesting baudline fodder tho...</div><div><br></div><div>Beam forming via a mic matrix of is on my to-do list, mic flowers, self contained recorders, micro-sd cards about the</div><div>size of a battery all synced "somehow" :-) </div><div><br></div><div>Time to research "audio system on a chip" devices...</div><div><br></div><div>-Mike.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><a href="http://geometer.org.uk/mag/?p=88">http://geometer.org.uk/mag/?p=88</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>microsound mailing list<br>microsound@microsound.org<br>http://or8.net/mailman/listinfo/microsound<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>