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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969

January 21, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Many years before the Cylindre Sonore, (see previous post), in 1969, Leitner began his research on sound defined space.
A room composed of 64 loudspeakers, the Soundcube allowed for the sounds to travel from one side to another, circling, spiraling, changing in pitch and direction.

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