Month: June 2025

• Ableton Autopan
• You are able to control the pan from left to right and play around with this feature, Gareth talked about how he implemented it into his practise and it has lots of artistic value from spacial sound
• You can slo sync the left and right pan to a tick which can be useful to use the panning as a musical element of a certain. make of work
• You can also auto pan to any clip which is useful for working with space in art swell

Controlarism

• This is the idea that using a Midi is an art and you are able to control many aspects of a certain DAW by manipulating the shape and remixing your work
• It really looks at hands on performance and to change things like volume, pitch, filter and effects to change a sound signal
• It also goes into custom mapping to use your hardware as a instrument and to give more control
• Live mixing is important as well because to reshape whilst your going gives is more man made value
• It changes the passive relationship between man and machine

Dear Reality Micro

• You can use it any DAW
• Its great for sound artist working with space because of its bin earl possibilities
• It basically takes any laptop, headphones or listing device into a portable spacial device
• You can practice as if you are in a room with multiple speakers
• Its provides artists with the practice of specialisation

Stereo

• We talking about fusing when recording microphones,
• Fusing is when some frequencies can overlap when mixing in stereo
• Gareth showed us some nifty tricks to counteract this in Ableton 12, he talked about going the stereo and spreading out the noise you can counteract fasing, spread out the sound to make it balanced

Sound exercise

Gareth wanted to show us the effect of moving sound to different parts of your head and seeing the feeling you get from different positions. Most people have different hearing in their ears so to was interesting to see how people reacted to it.

It was an interesting experience for me because I got different frequencies in different parts of my ear, I realised that different positions provoke different feelings. Sound from behind for some people can provoke a sense of danger.

The advantages of stereo Neil Youngs Down By The River (2009)

Neil Youngs Down By The River (2009) is a great example of the benefit of stereo panning, the intention was to make different levels of panning for different instruments. I believe this was to create a sense of reality, the layer of sound add depth and make you feel like you are listening to the band live

Stereo can be an amazing medium, you can layer sound into a digital space this is called stereo trance

Cinema

• Many cinemas around the world including IMAX use diffusion to create rich spaced out sound
• Disney Fantasia was the first to bring a audio set up to where the film was being played to create a rich sound source
• Pierre Henry used contemporary diffusion in his gigs, to spread the sound source

Home Cinema 5:1

• This is the calls surround system set up
• Perfect for home viewing in small rooms
• Isn’t overly complex

7:1

• Uses 7 speakers
• more complex and you get a richer sound
• Enhanced immersion and sound stage

Spacial Sound History

Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2014. Susan Philipsz

She set up 24 speakers and played a certain scale of music out one speaker at a time, for example all the A chords would come out one speaker. The result was beautiful tones that you could hear and change as you walk around the room. This a great example of specialisation