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Sound Design for Virtual Spaces
The strange thing is that you take the emotional treatment that sound is giving, and you allow that
to actually change how you see the image: You see a different image when it has been emotionally
conditioned by the sound.
—Walter Murch [1]
11.1 DISCOVERING SOUND IN YOUR ENVIRONMENT
Let’s prepare for this chapter by doing the following experiment: Get a piece of paper and a pencil and sit
down in a comfortable spot; nd someplace where you will not be bothered for a minute or two. In this
experiment, you will close your eyes and focus on listening to the sounds of the environment around you.
Start with the ...