Going Back to the very beginning -The first cinema was indeed highest art form

[Peter CINERAMAX]

I bought this book which confirms my life long instincts. Current Home Theater standards suffer from the many problems we can learn from the past to avoid.

Gestalt psychoacoustics studies support that all humans have primal DNA on what good sound is. There are new schools that prove perception is learned.

The Home Cinema Designer of the Future exploits all of this information to make the client enjoy the psychoacoustic and psychovisual fabric at it's best therefore elevating the experience to HIGH CULTURE.

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have always had a gut feeling that the need to be surrounded by sound was primal. This past Holy Week i chose to put my sandals on and walk the past of audio by reading a book on archaeoacoustics. So how does that hunch morphs into the hypothesis, actually strong reinforcement of the fact that the only way for the true immersophile to trump the experience of watching a movie or hearing a multichannel audio ( sorry have not done stereo at home for the past 45 years),how does the oldest home theater experience, actually the oldest example of art relate to something so esoteric as rigorously curated, categorised, parsed and organized as the Kaleidescape Scene Scripts.


Again I have been doing curated demos of my rigs for 40 years, the scripts just take it to another level, how high? If motion images by fire animated 8 legged boars were painted in sections of the cave were particular reverberations were past enough the HAAS POINT 18ms that they sounded as huff animals emanating around the paintings,that was high art then. Take a look at the connection in these paragraphs.

One of the most important concepts in understanding our acoustically collective psychy as
something primaly inherited was studied by the Ghestalt psychologists. The first concept they teach you is HABITUATION, a double edge sword? Or the maximum immersive realisation Ying/Yang of linear atmos neural-x movie watching "scene-analysis"vs. a "selfish bastard" kick ass atmos neural-x plums. It is this capacity of suppressing the negative side of HABITUATION and EXPLOITING TO THE MAXIMUM the cleaning of the palate GREAT side of habituation that im convinced beyond any doubt, given a kickass system with true HDR (not projection at the moment-wait for barco light steering tech 2-4 years) a samsung wall be the best ( i know about the track record of samsung having issues with tile uniformity-serious ones- and then 3 months later completely licking the problem) and a great sound system that is great at Quadraphonics by running all speakers down to 40 and musical (no horns that is a thx imposition-like the stupid stupid Tom Holman notion to cut all the surrounds at 80 or above- THX ruined immersive audio at it's very conception- i was there June Chicago 1989- harsh sounding i told Tom Holman who gave the first thX presentation at a cinema freshly outfitted with one of the first THX rigs near water tower- why does it sound like someone is frying eggs behind the screen - you need to use british speakers).


So Kaleidescape, great full range speakers and a good immersive design from as little as 6 speaker to 48, the wall, and the Kaleidescape scripts and you will be able to suppress all the negative aspects of the "Scene Analysis" core principle of Habituation and hotrod, polish and perfect a method to exploit the GREAT side of Habituation. If Home Cinema is the first high art known to man, the wall, a k system that is designed to play scripts first and foremost, with a continuous slew of new scenes, that the system is designed 99% for that- i argue Home Cinema can now surpass paintings, sculpture, symphonies and Imax as the highest art form known to man. Deep?

That is what my current Grand Overlook Solfar Cinema of the future, what michelangelo's painful to create PIETA (his greatest work) that is what the grand overlook penthouse is to art. The Highest Possible art form know known to man.

[Peter CINERAMAX]

Cave find shows Neanderthals collected seafood, scientists say

Discovery adds to growing evidence that Neanderthals were very similar to modern humans

Nicola Davis @NicolaKSDavisThu 26 Mar 2020 14.00 EDTLast modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 14.05 EDT






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A reconstruction of a Neanderthal created for the Natural History Museum in London. Photograph: Richard Gray/Alamy
Neanderthals made extensive use of coastal environments, munching on fish, crabs and mussels, researchers have found, in the latest study to reveal similarities between modern humans and our big-browed cousins.
Until now, many Neanderthal sites had shown only small-scale use of marine resources; for example, scattered shells. But now archaeologists have excavated a cave on the coast of Portugal and discovered a huge, structured deposit of remains, including from mussels and limpets, dating to between 106,000 and 86,000 years ago.
Researchers say the discovery shows that Neanderthals systematically collected seafood: in some layers the density of shells was as high as 370kg per cubic metre. They say this is exciting because the use of marine resources on such a scale and in such a way had previously been thought to be a trait of anatomically modern humans.
FacebookTwitterPinterest The cave on the coast of Portugal that was found to contain evidence of Neanderthals’ use of food from the sea. Photograph: Zilhao et al./ScienceProf João Zilhão, of the University of Barcelona, a co-author of the report, said the discovery added to a growing body of research suggesting modern humans and Neanderthals were very similar.






Read more“I feel myself uncomfortable with the comparison between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, because the bottom line is Neanderthals were Homo sapiens too,” he said. “Not only was there extensive interbreeding, and such interbreeding was the norm and not the exception, but also in every single aspect of cognition and behaviour for which we have archaeological evidence, Neanderthals pass the sapiens test with outstanding marks.”
The findings chime with recent evidence that Neanderthals had “surfers’ ear” and may have dived to collect shells for use as tools. Previous finds in Spain have shown they decorated seashells and were producing rock art 65,000 years ago.
“Forget about this Hollywood-like image of the Neanderthal as this half-naked primitive that roamed the steppe tundra of northern Europe hunting for mammoths and other megafauna with poor and inefficient weapons,” said Zilhão. “The real Neanderthal is the Neanderthal who is in southern Europe.”
The discovery appears to throws cold water on the idea that the marine-rich diet of modern humans, high in fatty acids, helped them to outcompete Neanderthals as a result of better cognition.
“If [marine foods] were important to modern humans, then they were important for Neanderthals as well – or perhaps they did not have the importance people have been attributing to them,” said Zilhão, noting that in any case few modern humans were living by the coast.
Writing in the journal Science, researchers reveal how the newly excavated site, which was about 2km or less from the coast when occupied by Neanderthals, contained a plethora of stone tools, roasted plant matter and remains from horses and deer, as well as from eels, sharks, seals, crabs and waterfowl, suggesting a diverse diet.
FacebookTwitterPinterest Shells found in the cave, the largest of which is 5cm across. Photograph: Zilhao et al./ScienceZilhão said the find also shed some light on Neanderthal fishing practices, noting that they must have had baskets or bags. “You cannot walk 2,000m with a catch of 10 or 20 kilos of shells in your hands,” he said, adding that the Neanderthal population also probably understood that shellfish collected at the wrong time could be toxic.
The team say the dearth of other huge shell deposits in Europe could be down to a lack of preservation: shellfish could not be transported far from the coast, and hence many such deposits in northern Europe would have been destroyed as polar ice caps advanced, while elsewhere they may have been submerged as the sea rose to today’s levels.
The stretch of Portuguese coast where the new find was made is perhaps the only location locally where such deposits could have been preserved, they say. South Africa, by contrast, experienced an uplift of the land, meaning many such deposits have been preserved.
Dr Matthew Pope, a Neanderthal researcher at the UCL Institute of Archaeology who was not involved in the study, said its findings were significant.
“We have increasingly recognised the sophistication of Neanderthal behaviour, but one thing that continued to mark out the behavioural evolution of modern humans in Africa was the appearance of systematic collection of marine resources, and this marked a difference between the two populations,” he said. “Evidence like this is important in showing Neanderthal populations had the capability for systematic exploitation of marine resources.”