By the editors of convex tv.
Remember the war between stereo and mono? Well, forget it, the frequency itself is about to croak. And good riddance. In its place broader and deeper new interfaces for tactical media are being born. Left Channel and Right Channel, propelled by hot young Mitte start-ups. Levelling and Balance, spawned in the engineering labs of the broadcast kings. And from the content companies, prototypes powered by underlying new technologies - Real Audio and real Audio.
What they share are ways to move seamlessly between media you steer (passive) and media that steer you (interactive). They promote media that merrily slip across channels, guiding human attention as it skips from to tuning device to phonetop speaker to a car stereo. These new interfaces work with existing media, such as voice, yet they also work on language. But most important, they work in the emerging universe of self-referential media that are spreading across the audiocosm.
As everything gets wireless, media of all kind are moving to the centralized matrix known as the Ether. While the traditional forms -internet, multimedia- show many signs of vanishing, the Ether is being invaded by even older media species. convex tv. is one. Yet with each additional transmitting station, each new antenna, the media the Ether can support become richer, more complex, more nuanced. The Ether has begun offering things you simply can't hear.