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Kosmokrator,
Well if we get some sort of wrap around projection system going, I could see that kind of sonic immersion. However, I think that both tacks would miss the point. To me, good story telling is combination of context (the environment of the tale), and focus (the tale that is weaved through that context). No matter how innovative the film maker is, there is always the context of the scene(the wide shot), and the focus (the mid and close up). From Eisenstein to Guy Richie, this visual language has remained fairly constant. Because it works. Around the world it works. We in post sound, have a similar language. Like the cinematographer or director decides the composition of a shot, we decide the composition of the aural shot that goes with it. It is all in service to the story. We aren't creating realistic soundscapes, we are providing enough detail to create context, but making specific choices about what we and the director/producer feels is vital to the scene. I think these choices are what makes art. Just filling the theater with lots of sound, and letting the audience sort it out is something else. I think that even as technology refines our ability to create space, (2 channel stereo was a refinement of mono, and 5.1 was a refinement of 2 channel stereo) the elements of story telling and it's filmic language will remain fairly constant until we as humans start taking information in, in a different way.
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