Spatial music is composed music that intentionally exploits sound localization. Though present in Western music from biblical times in the form of the antiphon, as a component specific to new musical techniques the concept of spatial music (Raummusik, usually translated as "space music") was introduced as early as 1928 in Germany.[1]
The term spatialisation is connected especially with electroacoustic music to denote the projection and localization of sound sources in physical or virtual space or sound's spatial movement in space.
- ^ Beyer, Robert (1928). "Das Problem der 'kommenden Musik'" [The Problem of Upcoming Music]. Die Musik 20, no. 12: 861–866. (in German)