{"id":392,"date":"2012-11-23T17:24:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T16:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tristanweis.com\/?p=392"},"modified":"2019-03-04T02:25:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T01:25:33","slug":"black-mesa-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tristanweis.com\/de\/black-mesa-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Mesa Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a test run of the wave field synthesis<\/a> sound system in the Zeiss-Planetarium Jena<\/a> I created a short multi channel audio play.
\n<\/p>\n

The overall technical environment somehow reminded me of the Black Mesa facility<\/em>, part of the famous game Half Life<\/em><\/a>. I decided to somehow quickly (remember, this was just for a short test) connect the posibilities of the sound system with my memories of the game.<\/p>\n

I took various short samples of the character voice acting from both Half Life<\/em> and Half Life 2<\/em> and arranged them into a new fictional story. Combined with many synthesizer layers, the final product should feel like something similar to a core meltdown during an experiment.<\/p>\n

I bounced the play into 8 separate tracks, which then could be manually moved within the sound system. The whole thing was designed so that there are not more than 8 audible events happening simultaneously - which was necessary for a logical composition of said 8 tracks.
\nThe seperate tracks combined with the technical advantages of the spatial sound system made it possible for me to exactly determine where<\/strong> in the 3D space what<\/strong> should happen - and everything live<\/strong>! (I felt a bit like a spatial DJ.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Of course, there is no way to show what this sounds like in the planetarium, so I decided to make another 5.1 mix. I rearranged, encoded and packed all tracks into one AC3 file. With a 5.1 system hooked up, the VLC player<\/a> should be able to route every channel and play it back properly.<\/p>\n<\/i> Download Black Mesa Incident - 5.1 mix<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

And lastly, if you can't enjoy spatial sound at all and\/or maybe just want to hear what the play sounds like by itself, here's a browser-friendly stereo version:<\/p>\n[audio:Black_Mesa_Incident_stereo.mp3|titles=Black Mesa Incident - Stereo mix]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a test run of the wave field synthesis sound system in the Zeiss-Planetarium Jena I created a short multi channel audio play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tristanweis.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tristanweis.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tristanweis.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tristanweis.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tristanweis.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tristanweis.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tristanweis.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tristanweis.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tristanweis.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tristanweis.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}