[net.music.gdead] Dead Heads/Live Ears

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From SF-LOVERS:

    Date: 25 Sep 1985 10:08 PST
    From: Greg Goodknight <GOOD@ACC.ARPA>
    Subject: Twilight Zone Audio
    
    Tuesday's Los Angeles Times has an article about a three-dimensional
    sound process called "spatial reverberation processing" that will be
    used to liven the audio for the new Twilight Zone series, premiering
    on Friday.
    
    Time to buy airline tickets for Philadelphia- the experimental
    stereo signal will make its debut there this Friday.
    
    Philip DeGuere,the executive producer (pictured next to a monitor
    displaying the Twilight Zone title, and looking quite natty in a new
    Grateful Dead T-shirt) was made aware of the process by the sound
    designer of the Twilight Zone, Mickey Hart. Hart got the job because
    he was the only one from the Grateful Dead to show up for the first
    meeting with DeGuere. Hart's first words to DeGuere were "I live in
    the Twilight Zone". The Dead, along with jazzer Merle Saunders, are
    the composers of the music for the show.
    
    The three dimensional sound is being implemented by Betsy Cohen, a
    Stanford University acoustician. The processing is being done at the
    Northwestern University's Computer Music Studio, where it was
    developed.
    
    Harlan Ellison, creative consultant for the series, is unimpressed.
    "People in this industry are technologically mad. I work on the text
    of the story. That's where (the show) begins and ends."
    
    Harlan was not wearing a Grateful Dead T-shirt.
    
		    Greg Goodknight <good@ACC.ARPA>