First Concepts for Research Project

My first concept for the project came to me while researching how the music industry has changed over the past years due to technological advancements that allow the public access artists work for free or at very low prices. This has resulted in a huge rise in the live music industry as the public are now more inclined to go see and experience their favourite artists performing live when their music is so easily accessible. Simon Frith 2010 (Analysing live music in the UK: findings one year into a three-year research project)

The concept I derived from the information i found out about how the music industry has changed was to be able to recreate a live event so that it could be experienced again and again. This project will be based around using a variety of 5.1 Surround Sound production techniques to record live music events and find out which best recreates the event in terms of presence/feeling of being at the original event. 

Further Research:

• What 5.1 recording techniques should i implement in the project?

• How do i rate evaluate each recording technique? Questionnaire? If so who participates in the questionnaire and how do the participants measure the level of presence?