Tidying up

When I clear up and try to bring back some order in my affairs, it sometimes happens that I catch myself with an old photo album in my hands and that time stops for a moment and then I forget what I was doing. I am then thrown back in time and dream away for miles. This is exactly what happened when I was organising my hard disks and found several folders with unused sound files that I had made for earlier compositions. I started listening to them and found myself drifting from one atmosphere to another.

It's easy to say, 'browsing through different folders'. Most sound files consist of 8 channels which therefore are sets of 8 sound files. To avoid having to open them each time in my DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), I decided to make a special Patch in Max/MSP to which these sets could be dragged and dropped for listening.

Virtual Sound Environments

This browsing through my sound files felt about the same as when, years ago, I teleported from one fascinating spatial virtual (sound) space to another in Second Life with a single click of a mouse. Every area there had its own 3D experience and its own sound experience.
(Second Life is an online virtual world, produced by LindenLabs)