4D. The Acoustic Orchestrations
b'The pianist\\xa0Glenn Gould\\xa0was dogmatic about his recording setup, placing the microphone as close as possible to his piano to exclude the sound of the surrounding room. That is, until he encountered the music of Alexander Scriabin\\u2014Gould felt that no one acoustic could do justice to Scriabin\\u2019s mystical musical language, and devised a system of \\u2018sound cameras\\u2019 that could zoom into or zoom out of his piano. Gould\\u2019s ambitious \\u2018Acoustic Orchestrations\\u2019 experiment remained unfinished, however, until music professor\\xa0Paul Th\\xe9berge\\xa0discovered it in an archive and brought the project to completion.'