I like to listen to old live music recordings on archive.org. One thing I’ve grown to love about such recordings is the spatial nature.
Someone is standing in the audience with a stereo recorder and when you close your eyes and listen to the recording, there is the sense that you are located in the venue at that same time and place. You can hear people talk and clap to your left or right. The experience of the music is very close to what someone would have felt if they closed their eyes in the arena. It’s a form of time travel that a video recording just can’t touch because the experience of looking at a screen is so much different from the experience of looking at something in real life. This is much less the case with live audio recordings.
I’m curious if folks will be able to go back to these old recordings to improve the spatial nature of the audio.
Someone is standing in the audience with a stereo recorder and when you close your eyes and listen to the recording, there is the sense that you are located in the venue at that same time and place. You can hear people talk and clap to your left or right. The experience of the music is very close to what someone would have felt if they closed their eyes in the arena. It’s a form of time travel that a video recording just can’t touch because the experience of looking at a screen is so much different from the experience of looking at something in real life. This is much less the case with live audio recordings.
I’m curious if folks will be able to go back to these old recordings to improve the spatial nature of the audio.