Congruent Acoustics - Research Groups

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TECHNICIAN'S NOTE #10C77, ERD

Most listening environments contain a great variety of acoustic signals. Although communication researchers to date have concentrated primarily on speech and, to a lesser extent, music, there is a growing appreciation of the importance of other meaningful sounds in the rich acoustic texture of everyday life. (Gaver, 1993)

OUR RESEARCH GROUPS:

Research and development at Congruent Acoustics is divided among several research groups, each with its own focus and area of expertise. Here is a brief outline of each group's function.

Artificial Landscapes Department (ALD) -
This is our main lab. It is their task to create aural environments. Some are mundane atmospheric recordings and others are mind-shifting matrix sets useful for meditation, consciousness expansion, intelligence boosting, and other metaprogramming applications.

Environmental Recordings Department (ERD) -
This lab's function is to record and study sounds found in the natural environment. Predominantly these aural environments are recorded for the purpose of documenting and preserving the sounds of rare or vanishing habitats and cultures.

Instrumental Transcommunication Department (ITCD) -
The ITCD carries out an assortment of experiments to record and actually communicate with nonphysical entities including but not confined to spirits and extradimensional beings.

Electronic Music Department (EMD) -
The only lab responsible for producing music. The technicians try to use purely electronic sources of sound to produce their aural environments. Commercial synthesizers, samplers, and other commonplace instruments are avoided.

Audio Archives Department (AAD) -
This department is in charge of archiving and storage of all sound files. This includes aural environments created by the other labs as well as a vast storehouse of recordings gathered by field agents and associated outside research groups.