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Digitaria

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1. Blood Burns Into Water 1. Blood Burns Into Water

2. Dog Star 2. Dog Star
3. Balag Anti 3. Balag Anti
4. Chozzar Over Abyss 4. Chozzar Over Abyss
5. Pre - Eval 5. Pre-Eval
6. Ghost Cultures Under Collapse 6. Ghost Cultures
7. Noosphere 7. Noosphere
8. Lux Nox 8. Lux Nox
9. Tzaddi 9. ShaL 3.33
10. The Abominable Plateau Of Leng 10. Sunset Eyes Through Water
11. Sekhet 11. PO-EMA

Digitaria

The following text is derived from Dogon knowledge, with the addition of western Anthropological and
Astrophysics information. The Dogon are situated in a remote area of Mali in West Africa. Their knowledge is
dated to be around five thousand years old this being pre-extant among the ancient Egyptians, who seemed to be
the source of this arcane knowledge.

Sirius appears red to the eye, Digitaria white, the latter lying at the origin of all things. It is the "Egg of the
World", aduno tal, the infinitely tiny, as it developed, it gave birth to everything that exists, both visible and
invisible. To start with, it was just a seed of Digitaria Exilis = Po(Grain) Tolo(Star) - consisting of a central
nucleus which ejected ever larger seeds of shoots in a conical spiral motion.

Sirius and Sirius "B" were once where our sun is now is. Sirius A being 10,000 times brighter then Sirius "B"
(Digitaria). The Dogon consider Sirius "B" as the most important star in the sky although it is invisible. In 1862
the American Alvan Clark looked through the largest telescope then existing and saw a faint point of light where
Sirius B should be, thus confirming its existence. In 1915 Dr. W. S. Adams of Mt. Wilson Observatory made the
necessary observations to learn the temperature of Sirius B , which is 8,000 degrees - half as much again as our
sun. it began to be realized that Sirius B was an intensely hot star which radiated three to four times more light
and heat per square foot than our sun. It then became possible to calculate the size of Sirius B, which is only
three time the radius of earth, yet its mass was just a little less than our sun. A theory of white dwarfs then
developed to account for Sirius B, and other white dwarfs were later discovered. This star according to Dogon

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mythology is composed of sagala, a form of metal unknown on Earth (the root of Sagala meaning both "Strong"
and "Heat"). Sagala could be an equivalent to the degenerate and superdense matter of white dwarf stars.

According to Dogon legend the "Nommo" (Amphibian extraterrestial beings) descended to the Earth to implant
knowledge to Gogo (the Fox), Ogo also means impure and is symbolized by mankind. The fox rebelled at its
inception, impatient to couple with its double and broke away from Amma, who is the Dogon head of the
universe (God, etc.) and thus Ogo remained unfinished.

For the Dogon an infinite number of stars and spiraling worlds exist. The satellites are called "Tolo Gonoze" -
"Stars that make the circle". The heavenly motions are likened to the circulation of the blood. The planets,
satellites and companions are "Circulating blood". This brings us to the extraordinary point that the Dogon know
about the circulation of the blood in the body derived from their own traditions. In our own culture, the
Englishman William Harvey (1578-1657) discovered the circulation of the blood, here follows the Dogon theory
on its circulations; "The movement of the blood in the body which circulates inside the organs in the belly, on
the one hand "clear' blood, and on the other the oil, keeps them both united (the words in man): that is the
progress of the word. The blood-water(-or- clear) goes through the heart, the lungs, the liver and the spleen; the
oily blood goes through the pancreas, kidneys, the intestines and the genitals." The Dogon mythology is
extremely complicated and detailed, their knowledge of the Sirius system and other cosmological data are
implemented into their beliefs which are an integral part of their daily life.

Psycho - Acoustics And Ambisonics

The voice is a flowing breath, made sensible to the organ of hearing by the movements it produces in the air. It is
propagated in infinite numbers of circular zones, exactly as when a stone is thrown into a pool of still water...
conformable to the very same law, the voice also generates circular motions, but with the distinction that in
water the circles remaining upon the surface, are propagated horizontally only, while the voice is projected both
horizontally and vertically. (1) The helical morphology of the spiral motion has long standing associations with
sound propagation. There are symbolic, if not scientific grounds for this in the shape of the inner and outer ear.
(2)

Directional effects in reproduced sound seem to have first been noticed, apparently accidentally, at the Paris
Electrical Exposition of 1881 (3) Ear pieces were provided each fed from a separate carbon microphone, indeed
in the absence of amplifiers at the time there was virtually no alternative. The microphones were placed in the
neighboring Opera and the directional effects were noticed when one ear piece was applied to each ear.

The observation remained a curiousity for many years. Even when the idea of "high fidelity" reproduction began
to replace the "mellow toned radiogram" from the 1940's onwards, there was little or no public awareness of the
need to reproduce more then a moniphonic ally. Meanwhile however, the famous Philadelphia Washington relay
of 1993 (4) had publically demonstrated directional effects. These were based upon the mullet channel spaced
microphone and loudspeaker methods. In England. Alan Blumlein has by 1931 developed a systematic
technology of stereo reproduction based on what are now called coincident pair directional microphone methods.

Monophonic recording and broadcasting remained throughout the change-over from the 78 rpm shellac pressing
to the modern microgroove disc, and stereo was not effectively introduced into market until the 1960's. Even
then, "stereo" remained for a considerable time a cult word with sybaritic connotations.

The inherent limitation of stereo is that it provides directional information only over a frontal soundstage limited
in practice to about 60 degrees. In seeking to expand the audio market, several companies had the idea of
extending directional information to all around the listener. This is defined as surround sound.

These early attempts at surround reproduction were known by the Latin-Greek hybrid name "quadraphonic", but
it was immediately apparent that this attempt suffered from defects of assumption, aim, and method which
would militate against satisfactory performance. Indeed over the next decade or so the various 'quadraphonic"
systems failed to gain a satisfactory market share.

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The inception of the "quadraphonic" attempt at surround reproduction seems to have been an observation that
strong experiences could result from playing four tracks of a multi-track tape into a corresponding set of four
loudspeakers disposed about the listener.

Once it is understood that the need is not to encode four or any other number of "channels" (which is
semantically and technically impossible anyway) but to encode direction, matters become both simpler and more
favorable. Two channels already provide two parameters which can be used for encoding direction, namely
relative amplitude and relative phase. These quantities can be conveniently displayed on the Poincare'-Stokes
representative sphere (5) of its stereographic projection.

Although in principle both altitude and azimuth angles could be encoded, subsidiary requirements confine two-
channel surround systems in practice to horizontal surround only.

Ambisonic encoding is of course easily provided synthetically by ambisonic pan-pots, etc. The "Soundfield
Microphone" (SFM) also provides direct transduction of live soundfields. Based on the theory of sampling on
the surface of a sphere, the principle of the SFM has proved so good in overcoming earlier limitations that
further development of capsule technology has been needed to exploit it to the full. A soundfield microphone is
equivalent to any number of truly coincident first-order microphones (i.e. of the cardoid family) each
independently steerable horizontally and in height. It thus provides unprecedented operational flexibility (either
during a recording or broadcast, or afterwards if it is recorded) as well as high quality because of the avoidance
of combifilter effects of spaing, and because pressure and velocity responses can be equalize separately.

The task of the decoder is to feed to the loudspeakers of the eventual listener such feeds as will radiate into the
room sounds which cooperatively give the listener correct directional clues. Since these feeds must be adapted to
the size and shape of the loudspeaker layout including the number of loudspeakers used, they cannot have
existed at any earlier point in the chain. Ambisonic decoders are equipped with simple controls, partly analogous
to the "balance" control of stereo, enabling the necessary adaptation to be made.

The human ear-brain system uses a number of mechanisms for locating sound, the nature of which needs to be
understood for optimum design. The essential key lies in the physics of diffraction of soundwaves at the human
head, and the conditions this imposed on the types of information available to the ear.

The key facts had already been established by Lord Rayleigh before 1907. In that year he wrote in the
Philosophical Magazine (6) "I is some thirty years ago since I executed a rather extensive series of experiments
in order to ascertain a more precisely what are the capabilities of the ears in estimating the directions of sounds."

Soundwaves impinging on the human head occur a about 500Hz.

Using the principle that the total field is the sum of the incident field and the scattering, it follows that at low
frequencies, where the scattering is small, the head is effectively in an undisturbed soundfield. Only small
differences are then possible in the intensity experienced by the two ears, and the phase difference corresponds
to the free-space propagation time between them. At higher frequencies, substantial intensity differences are
possible, but the phase information becomes ambiguous. because of the fourth-power law, the changeover
between the two regions is quite sharp, occupying approximately an octave. Thus rayleigh, quoting from his
"Theory of Sound" (7) concludes that the maximum possible difference of intensity at 250 Hz amounts to only
(in modern terms) 1 dB, but can be over 3 dB at 500 Hz. He estimates that the ambiguous phase-difference of
plus or minus 180 occurs at about 600 Hz.

It follows that evolution has had no option but equip us to use phase information below about 500 Hz, and
intensity information above this frequency, if we are to have the power of localizing sounds in both frequency
ranges. it is only necessary to verify experimentally, as is easily done, that discrimination of direction is both
above and below 500 Hz to prove that these must be the mechanisms employed in the respective frequency
ranges; the physics permit no other possibility. Rayleigh indeed confirmed this conclusion by further
experiments. Rayleigh also recognized a third region at still higher frequencies where discrimination,
particularly as between front and back, "depends upon an alteration of quality due to the external ears... In this
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matter it would not be surprising if individual differences manifested themselves... Such individual differences
are of course now recognized as a difficulty with dummy-head recording techniques.

The psychoacoustic design of ambisonic decoders consists in putting together and optimizing these facets, and in
particular ensuring that the different mechanism of localization are presented with clues which agree with each
other. Indeed Rayleigh himself reports (7) a series of ingenious experiments, both with tuning forks and then
novel telephone ear pieces, showing how the sense of direction disappears when this phase-clues at lower
frequencies and similarly the intensity clues at higher frequencies, requires the characteristics of a well designed
decoder to change with frequency, and this is an especially significant feature of ambisonic decoders.

References:

1. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, last century BC, De Architectura.

2. Athanasius Kircher, Phonurgia Nova 1673.
3. Clemont Ader's Theatrephone. Ader was also a pioneer of aviation, claiming to have achieved take-off
under steam power, but not sustained flight, in 1890. The claim is disputed, and an attempted
demonstration with his "Avion III" in 2897 failed to get off the ground.
4. J.C. Steinberg and W.B. Snow, "Symposium on Wire Transmissions of Symphonic Music ands its
Reproduction in Auditory Perspective." Bell Systems Technology Journal, Vol 13, 245-258 (1934).
5. H. Poincare' "Theorie Mathematique de la Lumiere II", George Carre, Paris, 282-285, 302 (1892).
6. Rayleigh, John Williams Strutt, 3rd baron, "On Our Perceptions of Sound Direction", Philadelphia
Magazine, Vol 13, 214-230 (1907).
7. Rayleigh, "The Theory of Sound", London Cambridge, Vol 1 1877, Vol II 1978, 2nd Edition (revised)
Macmillan & Co., 1894-6.

The details of the specifics in terms of instrumentation and personnel have been omitted as we felt the final
overall sonority to be th evidence, an emphasis on sound rather than personal ego, although we have included
some information regarding Ambisonics, although limited for reasons due to space availability yet. we felt it
necessary to outline the basics of this very approximate science based on psycho-acoustics. The whole of this
recording was Ambisonically encoded utilizing SFM techniques and transcoded into a UHJ-B Format for Stereo
Ambisonic reproduction. A full 360 degree soundfield will be realized if a Decoder is integrated into the users
systems.

Project coordination: Adi Newton

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