“The octophonic is the new stereo,” proclaims electroacoustic composer Barry Truax (pronounced “TRUE axe”) from his Sonic Research Studio at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. We’re about 5 minutes into his inaugural Zoom class on Soundscape Composition, of which 8-channel sound composition is to play a major part. It’s January 2022, and a month earlier my friend Julie Caine forwarded me an email announcing the offering of this class. Its synchronicity with the work Sam and I have been doing the last few years here at The World According to Sound was too much to ignore, so I signed up and Barry graciously let me audit. Thus began my formal foray into multichannel soundscape composition.
Well of course I'm blown away that you would choose to intelligently tie in your Greek background with the etymology section of your comments!