Bilocation

Take a little time to immerse yourself in surround sound.Start by putting on your headphones and listening to silence for a couple of minutes.
Sit back and relax.
The more relaxed you are, the more vivid will be the experience.
Press play and close your eyes.
What you’ll hear is something quite extraordinary! Binaural recordings are rather like ‘audio holograms’ - they capture a space in three-dimensional sound, that can be reproduced on stereo headphones. The effect can be very spectacular, as sounds can appear to come from all around you – including from behind, and above your head. But wouldn't it be great to be able to hear these spatial effects without the headphones, on normal loudspeakers? Well now, with the Bilocation disc - you can! Bilocation is a new DVD album in 5.1 surround - and it can be played on any domestic surround system with DTS. (That's most of them). Binaural recordings have been digitally processed into 5.1 surround and can be played back on speakers - but with all the vivid spatial imaging of headphones (including sounds from above). With loudspeakers, these effects are many times more spectacular!The human brain uses sound for mapping our surroundings far more than we realise: a blindfolded listener can usually tell what size and type of room they are in.
Bilocation exploits this ability, and gives deliberately confusing aural cues by simultaneously recreating acoustic spaces of different sizes. This is all the more effective when listening at home in familiar surroundings. A huge steam train seems to materialize in the room; a helicopter hovers menacingly overhead; the room dissolves into a tropical forest with parrots flying past... Many listeners have reported that playing the disc produced strangely altered states, and that it took them somewhere else!If you don't already own a surround sound system, there's never been a better time to buy one: even the cheapest systems can sound good. The Bilocation website has lots of information about surround sound, including help and advice on setting up a system correctly. Producer Steve Marshall spent ten years recording the extraordinary sounds used in Bilocation. Steve is currently restoring a 'lost' album by legendary 1960's psychedelic band Raspberry Parade. NEW FREE STEREO MIX FOR DOWNLOAD!
In 2004 Steve Marshall made a special 45 min stereo mix of Bilocation, for Shane Quentin's CRMK radio show The Garden of Earthly Delights.
The mix is designed for small, computer or boom box speakers and uses RSS and Q-Sound to produce sounds outside of the speakers. The unique spatial recordings of Bilocation are mixed with some great old vinyl - 60's & 70's stereo test records, funky French library music; sounds from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop... Download it now from the Bilocation WEBSITE