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So, next day I returned, and captured the entire thing. By the time I set up, it had sunk below the silhouette. I do not go to the beach often enough to know that the sun would fall behind this mountain.

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The first trial was a bomb - the Right Eye camera backfocus was off, and the entire picture was blurred. I took the Witness Head out to the Pacific Ocean, to watch the sunset.

Watch in either Red-Blue Anaglyphic 3D or Side-by-Side 3D Darken the room and gather pets if they are the comforting sort. Sit as far back from your screen as you can (if not using a 'VR' style headset) but not so far that the screen does not give you a view like looking through a window. For side-by-side 3D you can watch using a phone and one of those super-inexpensive 'VR' headsets.įor the best experience, you should use over-the-ear headphones, not earbuds or airpods. To see the 3D, use any standard set of red-blue 3D glasses to watch the anaglyphic versions. To get the most out of the sound you need to listen on headphones. These videos have been rendered in both ANAGLYPHIC and SIDE-BY-SIDE 3D with binaural sound. Because I've been worried about you lately. I also thought that maybe a quiet, meditative, slow, but immersive experience might be the kind of 'entertainment' you could use. I thought that while you are sheltering in place and unable to travel, that maybe you'd like to visit my fair city of Los Angeles, and that the Witness Head would be a good way to bring you the sights and sounds. Suffice to say that I built the Witness Head, and that I have three recordings for you to consider.

It makes more sense to show you what's been done first, and then to describe how it was done - in case you're not as interested in the backstory.

The device would be a 'witness' to certain actualities, and would record them as accurately as possible for those who could not be there.

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I figured a binaural soundtrack plus a 3D picture track would combine to form a first-person 'experience' that could be delivered to the viewer/listener. They are used to record classical music, mostly. The goal is to reproduce a recording that, when played back on headphones, recreates the sounds one would hear with REAL ears. I've had the idea to combine a Kunstkopf with a 3D camera for quite some time, but it took the Great Plague of 2020 to make it all come together.Ī 'Kunstkopf,' (literally 'art-head') is a binaural sound recording device made by putting two microphones inside a mannequin head with realistically-shaped ears.

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Kunstkopf binaural sound reproduces wonderfully on stereo speakers, but for the full spine-chilling 3-D effect, try using headphones.September 11, 2020: Tim Maloney - Witness Head Nicknamed 'Fritz', the Ku81 picks up sound so perfectly that when you listen to the recording you'll be convinced that those heavy shuffling footsteps, demented little chuckles and wheezing gasps are six inches from the nape of your neck. Kunstkopf literally translated means 'art head', and refers to a German-manufactured recording device: a Ku81 solid rubber head with microphones set inside the inner ear chambers. How can the sanctity of your cranium be so invaded? Well, you can put it down to Ku81, or 'Fritz'.Īll the 'Cabinet of Doctor Fritz ' stories were recorded in Kunstkopf binaural sound.

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A binaural 3-dimensional sound series originally produced for National Public Radio, The Cabinet of Doctor Fritz is a collection of thrilling audio dramas that feel as though they're being played out right inside your head.

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