This article examines popular music listening in light of recent research auditory perception and spatial experience, record production, virtual reality, while considering parallel developments digital pop production practice. The discussion begins by theories embodiment Brandon LaBelle, Eric Clarke, Salomè Voegelin Linda Salter, examining relations between subjects aural environments, conceptu...

Virtual Reality (VR) is a computergenerated three-dimensional space that is multisensorial, interactive and engaging. Virtual reality is an artificial environment that is created with software and presented to the user in such a way that the user suspends belief and accepts it as a real environment. On a computer, virtual reality is primarily experienced through two of the five senses: sight an...

1 Three Uses of the Expression ‘Virtual’ In the two expressions “virtual reality” and “virtual community”, the term “virtual” has different meanings. A virtual reality is a depiction or, more generally speaking, a sensuous representation of reality that allows – mainly by means of interactivity – to experience various features of reality without actually being in contact with the reality depict...