<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Here are a couple of good places to start reading about the art of diffusion:</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Moore, Adrian, Dave Moore, James Mooney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“M2 Diffusion: The Live Diffusion of
Sound in Space.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Proceedings of the 2004 International
Conference on Music and Computers</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Miami: USA, 2004: 317-320.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://sheffield.academia.edu/AdrianMoore/Papers/91459/M2-Diffusion-%E2%80%93-The-live-diffusion-of-sound-in-space">http://sheffield.academia.edu/AdrianMoore/Papers/91459/M2-Diffusion-%E2%80%93-The-live-diffusion-of-sound-in-space</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">Moore, Moore, and Mooney give a good concise definition of diffusion, a brief technical history of the art, and the results of some of their research into new diffusion technologies.</p><p class="MsoNormal">*</p><p class="MsoNormal"><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal">Truax, Barry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>"Composition & Diffusion: Space in Sound in Space."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Organised
Sound</i>, 3(2):141-146.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/bourges.html">http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/bourges.html</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">Truax gives a more technical description of his own research into the art of diffusion, but I like the way he distinguishes between composition and diffusion as "shaping the space inside the sound" vs "shaping the sound inside the space."</p><p class="MsoNormal">*</p><p class="MsoNormal">Enjoy!</p><p class="MsoNormal">Randolph.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 12-Jun-09, at 3:30 PM, CraqueMat wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Milan Davidovic wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Kim Cascone<<a href="mailto:kim@anechoicmedia.com">kim@anechoicmedia.com</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">what amazes me is how many people in the various arts (dance, film, etc)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">have no knowledge of the 'art of diffusion'...<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Where would you send them to learn about it?<br></blockquote></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></body></html>