Quote Originally Posted by Igneous View Post
I was thinking more the use of 5.1 Surround sound systems in clubs & new speakers that channel sound into small areas.

There are speakers being developed that work kind like torches, where you can dirrect a sound 20 feet away at someone with out anyone in the room hearing the sound. Once they become standard, musicicains can look at ways of manipulating then

One of the most intersting things I've heared recently was at a small festival where they had a powerfull 5.1 system in a woods. They weren't playing music, just firing signal noises around the area. It had a stangley hypnotic effect.

I think there is probley a bit more scope at looking at how sound frequencys can effect the human body though large soundsystems.
Pretty much all psychosomatic and physical effect research in sound has been done already and most is available on the net.
I got a few papers from the net about infra and ultra-sound and the various moods related to certain frequencies, but most of these frequencies are out of the range of conventional soundsystems. The stuff I found that could be used I put into my last PA ,Facing Choronzon, which was an experiment with psychosomatics, audio sigils, occult techniques and nlp. When I wasplaying it live I did notice some of the intended effects working, but you are heavily reliant on running through a properly set up sound system for this kind of stuff to be effective.

As for surround sound in clubs, we barely have clubs set up properly for stereo, let alone 5.1.

I`m not sure Audio spotlighting has much of an application musically outside of the art gallery (except for advertising) but it is pretty interesting tech.

There`s a lot of this kind of experimentation going on in contemporary composition and "art" music, but not techno.