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In Reply to: RE: Virtual Reality Concert Audio posted by Amphissa on March 07, 2011 at 13:13:16
Yes - but why would you need the concert hall at all? Why not just a memory stick plug-in for our home audio systems? I'm already a believer in multi-channel audio - maybe by 2018, we'll have 15.2 instead of our current 7.1! :-)
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Ah, but Chris, you and I both know that live performances are different from recordings, both for the orchestra and for the audience. I have thousands of LPs, CDs and digital recordings, but I go to live performances whenever I can find something appealing and accessible. Perfect seats for Bruckner 9 played by the NYPO in NY. Perfect seats for the MET doing Aida. Perfect seats for Bartok PC and Brahms 1 in Atlanta in a couple of weeks, and I already have tickets, perfect seats for Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in Minneapolis by the Minnesota Orchestra in May.
I love my stereo rig and surround sound home theater for DVD concerts and operas, but there's nothing like the real thing. But I've gotten to where I want perfect seats. And I am not such a purist. I'd love to hear the VPO play in the Musikverein, but second best would be a hall simulating the Musikverein.
I know this is repugnant to classical musicians. But to me, there is little difference between the technology of engineering and architecture vs the electronic engineering to make changes to the acoustics of a concert hall space.
Yes, I'm a heretic!
I also find nothing wrong with amplifying a classical guitar for performances of guitar concertos. Gasp! And I applaud Sharon Isbin for breaking the choke-hold of tradition.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
You might as well listen to a performance on your home system. If you want to change the acoustic of a venue, Meyerson in Dallas has the answer. "The innovative design includes features such as a 40' hollow area beneath the stage to increase resonance, an acoustical chamber with 72 doors to vary reverberation, and an over-stage canopy system that not only can be raised and lowered, but also tilted up to seven degrees to focus and direct the sound."
I love my stereo rig and surround sound home theater for DVD concerts and operas, but there's nothing like the real thing.
Yes, but by 2018, who knows? :-) Sure, live performances are different from recordings NOW, but perhaps with these VR audio systems in place (at home AND in the concert hall!), there will eventually be convergence. I can see it now: hi-rez audio and 3-D video of a live performance streamed to my home via the internet, and the memory stick in my pre/pro making my living room sound like the Musikverein. Why do I need to go out to concerts? :-)
Edits: 03/07/11 03/07/11
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