GOOD@ACC.ARPA (09/25/85)
From: Greg Goodknight <GOOD@ACC.ARPA> 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> ------