I found this article on spatialisation - which seems interesting. It's not just technical, so I thought it could be mentioned in the Talking About Music section - http://rateyourmusic.com/list/jjmsmu...its_history/1/
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This is a fascinating area, and one that I've personally become increasingly involved in over the last few years. I'm surprised the late work of Luigi Nono isn't mentioned in that article, but then it's more enthusiastic than knowledgeable in many ways, for example Varèse's Poème electronique was indeed diffused over many loudspeakers in its first presentations in 1958 (the actual number was however somewhat less than the 425 often quoted, including in this article), but the composition itself consisted of only three parallel tape tracks.
I think there's an interesting non-technical discussion to be had about spatiality in music, especially from the point of view of aesthetics - the "why" rather than the "how", so to speak. But I don't think very many non-specialist people have had the opportunity to experience its full potential for themselves.
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