Jonathan Harvey's technical notes on Madonna of Winter and Spring

Jonathan Harvey's technical notes on Madonna of Winter and Spring

PANNING I favour joysticks as it is very easy to see where you 'left' the sound. Computer game type joysticks are possible, but a bit large, and the Mac game ones tend to spring back to the center, unobligingly. Some passages can be spatialised automatically, maybe even quite a lot, but we definitely need manual control of the two circuits too. I'm not sure whether we should get into SPAT (IRCAM) type reverberation spatialisation. My feeling is that it will add so many parameters of choice the simplicity (which worked) of < \"which of the 4 speakers does this sound move to'\"> will be lost and an enormous amount of problems will occur with getting it good.