Spatial audio places sound around the listener instead of limiting it to a conventional left-right stereo image. Multichannel, binaural and object-based techniques can create immersive compositions, installations and listening environments with a strong sense of depth and movement.
Suzanne Ciani did not treat quadraphonic sound as a larger stereo image. In her account of working with Don Buchla’s instruments, the four speakers were equal, and the position of a sound could be controlled with voltage. The Buchla 227 output module even included a function called Swirl, which could send sound continuously around the…
Apollo Reverb is an electronic soundscape by FDR-Sound, inspired by the Apollo missions and the atmosphere of space exploration. The piece approaches the subject through sound, texture and spatial movement rather than as a literal reconstruction of a space mission. It combines electronic composition and sound design to create a sense of distance, scale and…
