Another technique IRCAM is developing uses scores of small speakers lined up around the concert hall to create something called wave field synthesis, or WFS. It was designed to address a problem that's been brought to IRCAM over and over again: dead spots in concert halls.

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He rails against the modern language of wine, which he describes as the worst sort of synthesis of Lewis Carroll and George Orwell and creating a club designed to exclude other people.

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