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– by Paula Musique –

Please, read this post while you listen to this song below with HEADPHONES ON. If you don’t have your headsets with you now, just read the article and listen to the songs when you get home. You will have a very interesting experience. And this to MY MUSICAL TIP of today: 8D music.

Have you heard of 8D Music? After all, what is this? Is it a musical genre? Is it a cutting-edge technology? Who started to produce it and when? Why? What makes YouTube channels that offer these songs grow so fast? 

I first heard about it last week. A friend forwarded a song to me on WhatsApp and I thought it would be nice to share about it with you. Even if it’s not new for you, take a read to understand more about this subject.

8D: is it possible?

Some say that “8D Music” is a misleading terminology when we consider that there are only three dimensions: height, depth and width – as we learned in school. But according to the Theory of Relativity there are 4 dimensions and String Theory states that they are 11. What now?

This reminded me of when I watched the 12-minute Shrek 4D movie at the Universal Studios in Orlando. The term cinema 4D refers to the physical effects you feel during the show. As the scenes unfold, you are “transported” and invited to “indulge” in an adventure with Shrek through effects you feel coming mainly from your own seat and the front seat: water spray on your face; air on the back of your neck and on your face; seat going back and forward, up and down – all accordingly to the movie scenes.

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What is 8D Music then?

The correct term is ambisonic music. From the Latin, ambi expresses the idea of duplicity, from various sides, around. Sonic comes from sound.

“8D Music” is not a cutting edge technology nor is it a musical genre (like pop, rap, bossa nova, salsa). So what is it? It is a song that has been manipulated with audio software, receiving effects that make the listener have the feeling that the sounds are moving around them, even at different distances. It is necessary to listen with headphones on – preferably high quality ones. Even with headphones on, it gives you a impression that you are not wearing it.

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To explain it better:

– these songs from famous artists you listen to on YouTube were not recorded with high technology
– when they were recorded the artists did not have to play and sing while moving closer or further to the left or right of the microphone during recording

Then you ask me: “No way!” But I listen, yes, the sound of the guitar, the piano, the voices going right and left, back and forth, I even hear from above and below. Is it magic?” Listen to the following song, Believer from the Imagine Dragons Band, as you continue reading this post.

What happens is the following:

You choose a song that you want to transform into 8D (as I said the correct name is ambitious, but I’ll use te term everybody is using), get the original audio, which was recorded normally in a studio or live – without juggling – and MANIPULATE THE SOUNDS IN AN AUDIO EDITING SOFTWARE.

DAWs

There are numerous DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations), such as: Logic, ProTools, Sonar, Audacity and Ableton. They offer various audio editing tools. It’s possible to do incredible things with these DAWs – from recording a person kneading a sheet of paper and turning it into something like an explosion, to recording the sound of a violin in your own bedroom and make the violin sound as if you were in a huge cathedral. The world of music production is fascinating, isn’t it?

So, with these softwares you can play and have fun with audio sounds, applying effects like PAN and REVERB that will give the sensations of 8D Music.

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Who started producing 8D Music and when?

It was “invented” by the Argentinean Hugo Zuccarelli. Holophony is a system capable of recording and reproducing sounds in three dimensions, creating a complete spatial sense – not just a right-left stereophonic. The novelty emerged in the late 1970s, before North American Dolby to create its surround technology .

These effects have been used for a long time, not only in music, but also in ambitious audios with speech sound, audios with noises, that is, audios created for the scenic composition – of the cinema or theater, for example – so that we have also this sensation of sound moving when we watch.

Ambisonic music is also used for VR (virtual reality). Keep reading while clicking on the audio below (video from year 2008) and get a virtual haircut with our barber – it gets even more interesting from 2:30.

Virtual reality

It is an interface technology that, through a virtual environment created from a computational system, manages to “deceive” the user’s senses. Through visual, sound and even tactile effects, virtual reality allows immersion in a simulated environment. Have you had any experience with VR? Ambisonic audio is a must have for the experience to be complete.

On Youtube

On YouTube there are channels with millions of subscribers and millions of views on Queen, Imagine Dragons, Ed Sheeran and Twenty One Pilots 8D songs, for example. The most popular channels on the internet, so far, are 8D Tunes and Trillion – 8D Music.

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What did you think? Have you ever listened to 8D music before? What were your sensations?

Paula Musique

Viver vai muito além de realizar meus próprios sonhos, pois posso dar as mãos ao próximo e ajudá-lo a realizar seus sonhos também & a vida fica muito melhor com Música.