I'm picking up on a musical meme -- probably an old one, but new to me. Space. Start with this nice NYT write-up of a piece of music composed for long, curving lines of trombone players -- 89 in all! -- surrounding the listener. Cross-reference with the new physical electronica -- and the argument that real sound sources, placed creatively in space, create an effect not replicable by any speakers, no matter how slick. Pile on academic projects like spherical speaker arrays an