Surround Sound? You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet

The New York Times covers experimental work in Surround Sound at Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, known as Empac



https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/arts/music/surround-sound-you-aint-heard-nothing-yet.html

From the venue website:

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2017/summer/spatial-audio-workshop/markus-noisternig

"As part of EMPAC’s Spatial Audio Summer Workshop, audio researcher Markus Noisternig will present an evening of multi-channel audio works. Using a 248-channel Wave Field Synthesis (WFS) array and a 60-channel Ambisonic dome, Noisternig will showcase the capabilities of this immersive system in a pristine acoustic space. WFS and Ambisonics represent the cutting edge of 3D, “holophonic” sound systems, which allow the composer to place and move sounds around the audience with an incredible degree of precision."

Sounds like fun! Sorry I missed this.

Really... they put together a 500 speaker hi density surround auditorium and the very best thing they can come up with to audition the system is "mrs Barretts ingenious balloon manipulations" ??? Come on.