“Welcome to the first-ever interactive 3D symphony!”, said the blurb on a press release for a new recording by Brian Baumbusch. Well that sounds exciting, and is clearly just the sort of thing I should be investigating, as Mr Baumbusch suggested in a note to me. He had read my previous enthusiasm for other immersive music, and suggested that I might enjoy this new album of his, called ‘Polytempo Music’.
“You’ll witness an orchestra of music as a 3D entity that will be remixed as you move around it and as it moves around you in a through-composed choreography of sound,” he wrote to me. But then, more worryingly he added – “To achieve this, I’ve developed a method that I call ‘spatial audio animation’ for which I hold a provisional patent.”
