Spatial music: a new genre?

[godofwealth]

Thought provoking article in TAS by composer and performer Laurie Anderson on a new genre of music enabled by technological advancements. Rather than summarizing the article, I’ll leave you to read it in its entirety.

Going Spatial - The Absolute Sound

Going Spatial - In this excerpt from Ways of Hearing [Princeton University Press], Edgar Choueiri and Laurie Anderson describe a new way of thinking about music and its reproduction.

www.theabsolutesound.com

I’ve felt that the next generations of creative musicians are going to increasingly use generative AI technology based on data mining hundreds of millions of albums. Perhaps spatial music and generative AI can be combined.

 

[Another Johnson]

It looks a lot like the Road to Quad, Three Channel, Binaural, HT 5.1 to 11.x.y. etc.
People like the idea of acoustic holograms. It is even more exciting than hidden messages like “I buried Paul.”

 

[stehno]

Thought provoking article in TAS by composer and performer Laurie Anderson on a new genre of music enabled by technological advancements. Rather than summarizing the article, I’ll leave you to read it in its entirety.

Going Spatial - The Absolute Sound

Going Spatial - In this excerpt from Ways of Hearing [Princeton University Press], Edgar Choueiri and Laurie Anderson describe a new way of thinking about music and its reproduction.

www.theabsolutesound.com

I’ve felt that the next generations of creative musicians are going to increasingly use generative AI technology based on data mining hundreds of millions of albums. Perhaps spatial music and generative AI can be combined.

Makes sense to me. I mean, if we’re gonna’ forever continue to ignore root causes in high-end audio, well… Doesn't that always open up a potential of alternative (and inferior) solutions generating more revenue while attempting to deal with the effects instead of the causes? Which seems to be the industry’s modus operandi anyway.