Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Week 6 - Annotated Essay - Spatio-musical composition strategies

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The reading ‘effect of the acoustics of the performance space’ by Natasha Barrett describes the difference between the Illusion and allusion, where illusion is the perceived space which appears real but however they are listening to an “illusion in stereo or multi-channel space”, and allusion where “space is implied without direct illusion”. Natasha describes how including an allusion to the sound and by introducing a 3d synthesised sound field, the interaction with the space begins to increase in comparison. The main message within the reading expresses that spatial information can not only have this direct illusion, but rather including the allusion to a space can open up opportunity to view interpretations similar to that of the illusion. This idea can be used within producing music where a spatial allusion can work hand in hand with a spatial illusion to allow for spatial options for the music piece. [Barrett, Natasha]

This information is very helpful for producing a spatial analysis of RMIT Building 8 for my spatial sound modelling project in the way that I can use both spatial illusion and spatial allusion to express the properties of the architecture. As a descriptive nature of walking throughout the different spatial conditions I could use spatial illusion to express the real spatial perception and use spatial allusion to express the “interrelated acoustic laws of objects sounding in space” [Barrett, Natasha] where I might have to make assumptions in aural interpretation.


Bibliography:
- Barrett, Natasha, Spatio-musical composition strategies

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