On 4DSOUND

9 September 2011 - Text based upon a spoken lecture by Paul Oomen during the Symposium Spatial Music, organized during Gaudeamus International Week of Contemporary Music. 2550 words

SUMMARY

Oomen approaches the subject reviewing his diverse endeavours in composing spatial music. He focusses on the creation of 4DSOUND technology, a development that has been central in his work since 2007. The main concerns of this development are introduced by four reflections on spatial elements: space, distance, movement and perspective.

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A dramaturgy of spatiality

31 January 2011 - In this article Oomen introduces a variety of general and specific aspects of spatiality that have been vital in the development of 4DSOUND, a new procedure for spatial sound synthesis. 732 words

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Our awareness of spatiality is strongly dependent on the omnidirectional and non-selective reception of our hearing. While the eyes are conditioned for complex rendering of objects and their characteristics, the hearing primarily follows continuity in time and space.

On Nikola Tesla

1 September 2010 - Oomen reflects on the personality of Nikola Tesla and the translation of the inventor’s life and work in his opera ‘Nikola’. 1251 words

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Nikola Tesla was an extraordinary person. He combined a mind of almost digital precision with a mysterious, indeterminable intuition and hypersensitivity. In his autobiography, Nikola Tesla writes extensively about the mental affections that were troubling him throughout his life. He experienced phenomena such as synesthesia, visual interventions and perceptions transcending the border between wakefulness and sleep.