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From: rjf@canon.co.uk (Robin Faichney)
Newsgroups: rec.audio,rec.music.synth,comp.music
Subject: Ambisonics?
Keywords: binaural surround-sound
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.100357.15534@canon.co.uk>
Date: 30 Jan 91 10:03:57 GMT
Organization: Canon Research Europe, Guildford, UK
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On BBC R3 last night there was a programme on computer music
(fascinating, too -- if only I'd taped it!) before which it was
announced that some binaural material would be included.

As I didn't fancy wearing my phones for an hour, and I was listening in
bed, and my speakers are switched, I wasn't going to worry about the
binaurality, until, just before the piece concerned, they said that it
was made using a system called Ambisonics, developed in Birmingham
(UK), which would produce a sphere of sound around the listener's
head!  Of course I jumped up, found the phones, plugged them in, put
them on, adjusted the volume, went back to bed, and -- nothing.  The
sound stage went right through my head, as usual.

So, anyone else hear this prog -- did it work for you?  Did you tape
it?  Anyone know anything about Ambisonics?