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Spatial Composition Techniques and Sound Spatialisation Technologies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2010

Marije A.J. Baalman
Marije A.J. Baalman*
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Pibemalaan 16, 8749 GS, Pingjum, The Netherlands
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E-mail: nescivi@gmail.com
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Abstract

In the context of current developments towards an exchange format for spatial audio, it is important to consider the interactions and tensions between spatial composition techniques and spatial audio technologies. This paper gives an overview of common compositional techniques and audio technologies used for spatial compositions, and discusses various forms of hybrid uses of audio technologies. A spatial composition created using certain audio technologies may lose integrity when transferred to another audio technology, when the compositional intent is not taken into account. Tools that are flexible with regard to the spatial audio reproduction technology applied are useful for the comparison of various spatialisation methods during the compositional process, but are also essential to enable a hybrid use of technologies within one composition.

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Organised Sound , Volume 15 , Issue 3: Sound ↔ Space: New approaches to multichannel music and audio , December 2010 , pp. 209 - 218
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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