WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Sunday, September 26, 1999
Sessions W10-W14

W10: MUSIC & THE INTERNET:
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

Sunday, September 26, 9:00 AM
Chair: Steve Ginensky, Strategic Manufacturers Group, Chicago, IL, USA

Distribution of music on the Internet is a rapidly developing field that will have substantial ramifications on the future of the recording and professional audio industry. This look-into-the-crystal-ball workshop will cover both the latest developments and the most likely future scenarios for the direct digital handling of musical content over the Net. Representatives from this exciting field discussed the current state of the art, future directions, and the potential impact on the professional audio production business.

W11: WHAT FORMAT SHOULD I
RECORD ON?

Sunday, September 26, 9:00 AM
Chair: Blue Wilding, Strassberg Associates Inc.,
New York, NY, USA

Participant: Samuel T. Buckner, Walt Disney Imagineering, Glendale, CA, USA

With the myriad of recording and playback formats available now and potentially in the future, this workshop will ponder the question many artists, engineers, and producers may be asking. The advantages and limitations of a variety of formats for different applications were reviewed and discussed.

W12: INNOVATIVE ACOUSTICS
FOR RECORDING

Sunday, September 26, 2:00 PM
Chair: Troy Jensen, Altel Systems, Brewster, NY, USA

Participants: John Storyk, The Walter-Storyk Design Group, New York, NY, USA; Jan Voetmann, Delta Acoustics, Lyngby, Denmark

A sequel to an immensely popular workshop, this session tackled how to use existing rooms and structures to help obtain superb ambience for recording. Several recent hit CDs by a variety of performing artists have been recorded in some very untraditional "studios." In this workshop, experts in the field of acoustics, acoustic modification, and music production discussed how almost any space can be made into a workable production space.

W13: ADVANCED NETWORKING

Sunday, September 26, 2:00 PM
Chair: Zack Settel, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

This workshop focused on high-performance network engineering, administration, audio streaming, applications development, and live network-based musical performance. Two special demonstrations took place as described below. The underlying software for the demonstrations was developed at McGill University by a team involving several members of the Technical Committee on Network Audio Systems.

W13-D1 Demonstration
5:30 PM

W13-D2 Demonstration
7:30 PM

These demonstrations, associated with the above workshop, took place in a theater space at New York University (NYU), where dancers from that university performed to music provided remotely by a McGill jazz band playing live at McGill University in Montreal. The music was acquired as a multichannel audio signal and streamed to NYU across a high-performance network managed by the Canarie (Canada) and Internet 2 (USA) corporations. Compressed and uncompressed multichannel audio transmission of different sampling rates and word size were featured.

W14: ANALOG GEAR IN A
DIGITAL WORLD

Sunday, September 26, 5:00 PM
Chair: Walter Sear, Sear Sound, New York, NY, USA

This workshop focused on how tube and analog audio equipment remain a vital, high-quality component in audio production for live sound, recording, and broadcasting applications dominated by digital technology.