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AES E-News: February 10 – 140th Convention, Upcoming Conferences, Standards News, Job Board, Jan/Feb JournalTable of Contents
140th Convention Majors on Immersive SoundAES 140th Convention 3D cinema sound, surround sound broadcasting and binaural listening — under the collective banner of Immersive Sound — will be a major focus of the 140th AES Convention, making important contributions to the understanding of this fast expanding field of audio technology. Multi-format audio reproduction will facilitate immersive audio track presentations on the state of the art and future of reproduction, research into surround sound and 3D recording, and a program of special events devoted to audio projection.
Upcoming Conferences2016 International Conference on Sound Field ControlGuildford, UK, 18–20 July, 2016 Authors have been given an extended deadline of February 14th to submit their paper proposals for the Sound Field Control conference. The committee is still open to receiving either full papers for peer review, or abstract/précis submissions for consideration.
2016 International Conference on Headphone TechnologyAalborg, Denmark, 24–26 August, 2016 More than 300 million pairs of headphones were sold in 2015, and people are using headphones everywhere. Chaired by Sean Olive and Patrick Hegarty, this conference will focus on technologies for headphones, with a special emphasis on the emerging fields of Mobile Spatial Audio, Personal Assistive Listening, and Augmented Reality. Proposals can be submitted from January, with a deadline of March 16th for papers and posters.
Standards NewsAn open control and monitoring standard for professional audio and AV media network devices was officially standardized on 4 January 2016 in the newly published AES70-2015 standard for audio applications of networks – Open Control Architecture. With the ratification of OCA as AES70, it is now an official public open standard. AES31-4-2015, AES standard for network and file transport of audio - Part 4: XML Implementation of Audio Decision Lists has just been published. The standard provides a syntax mapping for AES31-3 Edit Decision Markup Language (EDML) to XML Schema Language. This facilitates the expansion of the Audio Decision List format to include non-ASCII characters and updates the format facilitating it’s implementation using standard XML parsers and tools. It also supports multi-byte chacter sets for human-readable metadata in all territories worldwide.
Job Board UpdateThe AES Job Board is where audio companies post their latest job openings. As an AES member you receive notifications of the most recent postings here:
AES Journal January/February Issue Now AvailableThis month's issue includes:
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