abstract:In music a sound object (objet sonore: Pierre Schaeffer 1959, 1977, p.95), has a time scale that encompasses events of a duration associated with the elementary unit of composition in scores: the note.
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done, From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
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That means that an object under the stack - in the team's experiments, a block of wood about 10cm long - would not "hear" the sound, and any attempts to locate the object using sound waves would not find it.
With Zikmu, and now Zikmu Solo, Parrot has changed the relation to sound by offering a beautiful object, highly technological and fully intuitive, that adapt to all music uses and to all environments.