Word: ponged
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...songs on the Worst of the Worst can be compelling in their awfulness. Songs like Richard Hackley's rabble-rousing, hackles-raising spiritual God's Backhand ("We're not talking about tennis or Ping-Pong!") or Offwight Radiator's inexplicable alterna-dirge Sent Fishing by Your Neighbor (those are the only lyrics) fascinate in the way the best outsider art often does. In the words of J.A. Moore, one of the Worst of the Worst's favorite artists, "It's just a funky mystery...
...sound of a Ping-Pong ball suddenly shatters the quiet. I see nothing but can sense the ball moving left, then right, then back again (and again and again). My ears are performing the equivalent of the left-and-right neck pivot required to watch tennis. Finally the ball drops to the ground and rolls. Still in total darkness, I can sense which direction it's moving...
Kyriakakis' Ping-Pong trick is part of a technology he calls "virtual miking." The goal is to create textured, three-dimensional sound through digital mastery. And it offers applications more practical than simulating table tennis in the dark. Like remastering music: a mono or stereo recording can be transformed into multichannel audio approximating concert-hall quality. With stereo the sound seems to come from in front. Virtual miking projects sound from front and back, above and below. Kyriakakis achieves this with a little legwork: visiting concert halls and placing microphones all around. After testing how they pick up sound...
...raised when the ex-Eagle and the queen of ironic rock testified at a digital-music hearing last Tuesday. Indeed, the duo's presence had been effectively overshadowed by a single press release, and Henley knew it. "As Alanis and I sit here," he said, "there is a Ping-Pong game going on over our heads about business models on the Internet...
...focus of the digital-music debate is rapidly shifting. Once dominant song-swapping service Napster is a shell of its former self, with 1.6 million copyrighted tunes now fully blocked by court order. And the music industry has not wasted time before stepping into the void. Its first Ping-Pong ball was served in the early hours of Monday morning, when EMI, Bertelsmann and Warner Music--three of the labels long lampooned as dinosaurs that didn't get the Net--were inking a deal with Real Networks and AOL after a year of top-secret negotiations...