Holographic sound

Quite effective wasn't it?
There was a system used in the 70s I think that used a foam head with microphones where the ears should have been. Bin-aural(sp) I think it was called.

Another spatial effect was Q-sound used by Roger Waters among others.

I've got Zuccarelli's Holophonic album on vinyl published in 1983. As I remember it was pretty convincing if you had headphones on, less so with speakers because I could not be bothered to move them as he suggested.

His liner notes from the album make spectacular reading :

"Holographic recordings are not normal sound recordings but pure information from the brain. Consequently frequency response and tonality distortion can reduce the percentage clarity of the holographic phenomenon.

I ask you to look for anything which will give less distortion in the cerebral message received."

Here is an example of his matchbox recording. And here is another.

Also
Scissors - http://www.holophonic.ch/archivio/testaudio/capelli.mp3
Hair Dryer - http://www.holophonic.ch/archivio/testaudio/phon.mp3
Whispering Woman - http://www.holophonic.ch/archivio/testaudio/voce.mp3

His site has vanished but most of the text from it can be found here

Steve - still searching for less distortion in the cerebral message.

That was quite good.

Here I was thinking I was the only one who picked up a binaural record few weeks ago.