Location: Zoom virtual Meeting (5pm Central European Time / Germany time zone)
Moderated by: Rafael Kassier, Tobias Goldmann
The last ever meeting of the AES South German Section!
It certainly has been two years like no other. The section reboot started in November 2019, with rumours of a virus in China on the news channels. We met in-person once at MSM Studios, Munich in February 2020. Then Covid-19 came, and after a delay we carried on online! Finally some of us met-up at the Tonmeister Tagung in Duesseldorf last Month. Now it is time to wrap-up the section with a celebratory look back at what we accomplished!
That is not all though, as 2022 will herald the rebirth of the AES in all of Germany, with a look forward to the formation of the new AES Germany Section, with a duly elected leadership team (some of whom will be present) waiting in the wings to take us all on the next chapter in the journey!
Agenda
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Everyone is invited. Especially all AES members in Germany
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j1l-IQd4SjmyhV-Lzl5M0Q
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Posted: Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Location: Zoom virtual Meeting (5pm Central European Time / Germany time zone)
Moderated by: Rafael Kassier, Tobias Goldmann
Speaker(s): Tom Ammermann, Maurice Engler, Yvan Grabit, Paul Neyrinck, Dave Tyler
Immersive audio has arrived! We now have unprecedented options for reproducing sound fields around the listener. Whether this is object-, channel-, or scene-based audio, there will invariably be the questions about how to position the audio sources (objects) within the soundfield.
Traditional stereo pan-pots work along a single axis. Surround-sound panners work along two dimensions. But with immersive audio formats we need to be able to place objects into the three-dimensional space: how do we do this? Can we work in 3D on a 2D computer screen with a mouse as the interface? Can this be realized in hardware? More importantly: how will these panners work in terms of signal processing?
There are different strategies like Sony 360 RA with a spherical approach or Dolby Atmos which features a box-shaped space, but how will a panner move and place objects effectively in these various formats? Experts from companies working in this field will give insights about their strategies and discuss what the future of immersive audio production could be.
The Presenters
Tom Ammermann - NEW AUDIO TECHNOLOGY GmbH
Grammy-nominated music producer, Tom Ammermann, began his journey as a musician and music producer in the 1980s. At the turn of the 21st Century, Tom produced unique surround audio productions for music and film projects as well as pioneering the very first surround mixes for headphones, which quickly established his brand Headphone Surround 3D and reputation as an immersive audio producer.
Currently, Tom is working on developing new technologies in spatial audio whilst offering workshops and presentations at high-profile international audio conferences.
Some References: Terminator 2, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Expendables I-III, 5th Element and Kraftwerk 3D.
More information: NEW AUDIO TECHNOLOGY
Maurice Engler - Merging Technologies
Maurice Engler is Product & Project Manager/Training Expert with Merging Technologies, makers of Pyramix, Horus, Hapi, Anubis and other hard- and software solutions.
Besides Merging Technologies, he has produced audio visual content such as documentaries and advertising, created and produced many soundtracks for TV and documentaries and designed immersive content for art exhibitions. He has a deep understanding about the needs for a sound engineer, a tonmeister or a broadcast engineer due to his own experience using the Merging Technologies solutions.
More information: Merging Technologies
Yvan Grabit - Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH
After a quiet childhood and youth in “Pays de Gex” (an area jammed between the French Jura mountain and Geneva), during which he played as drummer in different Brass Bands, Yvan Grabit completed an Engineering degree in Image Processing and computing at ISEP (“Institut Supérieur d´Électronique de Paris”). He started research at Fraunhofer IGD in Rostock for 8 months, then moved to Paris and Cannes to work for Aérospatiale (now part of Thales Alenia Space) in satellite image processing as developer and project manager.
24 years ago, Yvan decided to change his field of work from image to audio and began his career as a developer at Steinberg. He started in the Nuendo team, then developed different plug-ins, such as LM-4, The Grand and HALion with Charlie Steinberg, and took on the responsibility for the development of plug-in integration in DAW, surround features and VST-SDK (version 2 and later on version 3).
Today, he is team leader of the Research group which works in different fields like MIR, 3D/VR audio, restauration, Machine Learning, etc. As technical lead of VST he promotes and maintains VST 3, and supports 3rd Party developers.
He continues to play drums, guitar and piano in several music groups.
More information: Steinberg Media Technologies
Paul Neyrinck - Neyrinck
Paul is the founder and president of Neyrinck Audio which develops and sells professional audio software applications and plugins. Prior to founding Neyrinck Audio, Paul designed products for Digidesign, Avid, Orban, Focusrite, and DTS. He studied digital signal processing at UC Santa Barbara and received his BSEE degree in 1992. Prior to that he received his MSEE degree from Montana State University in 1990. Paul lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
More information: Neyrinck
Dave Tyler - Avid Technology
Avid’s Audio Presales Manager, Dave Tyler, works with some of the most interesting and inspirational artists, content creators and distributors in the industry.
Dave has a wealth of experience in the industry having started out in recording studios in London and going on to become a freelance recording and mix engineer. He lectured in Audio Engineering and project-managed professional studio builds before joining Avid, where he manages a team of audio specialists covering Europe, Middle East and Africa, helping Avid’s many and varied audio customers to find the right solutions.
More information: Avid Technology, Inc.
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The colloquium will be held in English, with a short introduction to the topic followed by the experts' remarks. The talk will end with a Q&A session. Listento links will be provided to offer binaural sound samples for the audience.
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rKWyvzHjSd6jz5x0uTL-HQ
The Meeting Format: We will be hosting this meeting using Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. For most participants, audio and video are muted during the presentation. In the discussion they can be unmuted (indicated by the raised hand function). This will be explained again at the beginning of the meeting. For a better quality we suggest to use a headset with microphone. The presentation will be recorded. By turning on your camera you are consenting for your image to be used in a photograph of the event.
Other Business: There will be an open discussion after the talk.
Posted: Sunday, December 5, 2021
Location: Zoom virtual Meeting (5pm Central European Time / Germany time zone)
Moderated by: Rafael Kassier, Tobias Goldmann
Speaker(s): Keely Siebein
Murray Schafer, the man often credited for coining the term "soundscape", has created an enormous impact in the way in which people document, think about and analyze sounds around them. He was a musician and composer, and explored soundscapes in a way that sought to catalog and record them in hopes of preserving the sounds around us.
This presentation will explore his works and his research in the World Soundscape Project. Using concepts from his seminal book, the presentation will review a number of soundscape terms, how they are directly influenced by Schafer's work and were transformed into the Soundscape Technique, that has been applied to hundreds of projects all over the world.
The presentation will explore several case studies that apply these principles to soundscape explorations of historic, natural, urban and indoor environments. The presentation explores how these principles can be integrated into a theoretical framework of architectural, urban and natural acoustic design and practice today.
The Presenter
Keely Siebein - Siebein Acoustic, ASA, INCE, LEED AP BD+
Keely Siebein has over 21 years' experience in architectural and environmental acoustics and has worked on nearly 400 projects worldwide. She has edited and co-authored several books, book chapters and journal articles. She is passionate about sustainable buildings and is President of the Florida chapter of the ASA, a member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), and a member of the Institute of Noise Control Engineers, (INCE).
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The colloquium will be held in English with a presentation of 60 minutes, followed by a 30-minute discussion.
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4GBwx_rLRVSgCesfw7ZgrA
The Meeting Format: We will be hosting this meeting using Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. For most participants, audio and video are muted during the presentation. In the discussion they can be unmuted (indicated by the raised hand function). This will be explained again at the beginning of the meeting. For a better quality we suggest to use a headset with microphone. The presentation will be recorded. By turning on your camera you are consenting for your image to be used in a photograph of the event.
Other Business: There will be an open discussion after the talk.
Posted: Saturday, November 20, 2021
Location: Zoom virtual Meeting (5pm Central European Time / Germany time zone)
Moderated by: Rafael Kassier
Speaker(s): Katharina Pollack
For more than two decades, head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) have been calculated numerically. For the numerical calculation, the three-dimensional representation of the individual pinnae geometry is required. The simple, user-friendly geometry acquisition for HRTF calculation is still current research topic, with the difficulty being the correct representation of the complex biological structure of the pinna.
In this talk, we present an approach relying on a non-rigid registration of a generalised high-resolution pinna point cloud to a noisy but listener-specific pinna point cloud. We will discuss various registration algorithms for their robustness with respect to perturbations in the noisy pinna point cloud. The results of the registrations are analysed both at a geometric level using the Hausdorff distance for spatial accuracy, and at a psychoacoustic level using an auditory model of sound localisation.
The Presenters
Katharina Pollack - Austrian Academy of Sciences
Katharina Pollack studied electrical engineering sound engineering at the Technical University and the University for Music and Performing Arts Graz and graduated in November 2019. Since March 2020, she has been a doctoral candidate at the Acoustics Research Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is working on the modelling of external ears and the simulation of spatial hearing. She is a board member of the Austrian Acoustics Association, the Austrian section of the Audio Engineering Society, the Austrian section of the IEEE and its affinity group “Women in Engineering”.
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The colloquium will be held in English with a presentation of 60 minutes, followed by a 30-minute discussion.
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ijY3EaBFSKiQ88r8uHjSug
The Meeting Format: We will be hosting this meeting using Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. For most participants, audio and video are muted during the presentation. In the discussion they can be unmuted (indicated by the raised hand function). This will be explained again at the beginning of the meeting. For a better quality we suggest to use a headset with microphone. The presentation will be recorded. By turning on your camera you are consenting for your image to be used in a photograph of the event.
Other Business: There will be an open discussion after the talk.
Posted: Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Location: Zoom virtual Meeting (5pm Central European Time / Germany time zone)
Moderated by: Rafael Kassier, Tobias Goldmann
Speaker(s): Philipp G. Lengeling
Come join this talk and Q&A with music tech attorney Philipp Lengeling for practical pointers and legal considerations relevant in the context of doing and participating audio recording sessions and productions. What are some common pitfalls in the context of collaborating with others? Who will “own” which rights to what content? What, at minimum, should be done prior and after a recording session? How to deal with professionals vs. amateurs/hobbyists?
Philipp will share his views and advice based on practical experience working with audio tech companies, producers, and artists across the globe.
The Presenter
Philipp G. Lengeling, Mag. iur., LL.M. (New York), Esq. - RafterMarsh
Philipp G. Lengeling is an attorney based in New York (U.S.A.) and Hamburg (Germany), who is heading the New York and Hamburg based offices for RafterMarsh, a transatlantic boutique law firm (California, New York, U.K., Germany) that specializes in audio technology, music and other tech industries. Due to Philipp’s international legal background (he holds law degrees from both Germany and the U.S.), Philipp advises European and U.S. clients in cross-border B2B and B2C tech-transactions, tech and music licensing matters, and privacy and consumer protection compliance. Philipp also teaches a course as Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School (New York). Out of the office, Philipp immerses himself in music by playing the keyboard, the guitar and as a producer in numerous music projects.
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The colloquium will be held in English with a 30-minute presentation, followed by a 60-minute discussion. We are looking forward to an interactive presentation and encourage participants to ask questions.
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_n6bced97Rt-vh4paFYDRnQ
The Meeting Format: We will be hosting this meeting using Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. For most participants, audio and video are muted during the presentation. In the discussion they can be unmuted (indicated by the raised hand function). This will be explained again at the beginning of the meeting. For a better quality we suggest to use a headset with microphone. The presentation will be recorded. By turning on your camera you are consenting for your image to be used in a photograph of the event.
Other Business: There will be an open discussion after the talk.
Posted: Saturday, October 23, 2021
Location: Zoom virtual Meeting (5pm Central European Time / Germany time zone)
Moderated by: Prof. Dr. Frank Melchior, Banu Sahin
Speaker(s): Leon Hofmann, Jonas Kieser, Maurice Marvin Strobel
Reproducing the Auditory Width of Individual Acoustic Instruments in Immersive Audio Productions Using a Three-Channel Spot-Microphone Arrangement - Leon Hofmann & Maurice Strobel
This talk presents a coincident spot-microphone arrangement for recording acoustic instruments in the context of immersive audio productions. The developed technique enables reproduction of a single instrument with control of its auditory width in the horizontal and vertical dimension during post-production.
The geometrical arrangement as well as the required post-processing for immersive loudspeaker-based audio productions is discussed. A detailed analysis of the proposed microphone array is provided and a prototypical implementation of a decoding and panning tool will be demonstrated. The purpose of this tool is the intuitive adjustment of the spot-microphone’s signals as well as panning the resulting signals via amplitude panning within a 7+4 speaker layout.
Additionally, a recording of ten individual instruments and two singers with three spot-microphone positions each, was carried out in an anechoic chamber using the new method. The audio files and detailed documentation are provided online for evaluation and further research. An overview of this database as well as the initial findings gathered throughout mixing the 100+ track production for a 7+4 loudspeaker setup are given.
Object-Based Spatial Wavetable Synthesizer - Jonas Kieser
Spatial audio formats have made their way into popular music production. In current workflows, spatialization is mostly part of the post-production process. To unlock the full creative potential of spatial audio, the design of spatial attributes should be considered as part of the composition and sound design stage. One approach for the shift to the composers can be the integration of spatial audio into virtual instruments - for which there are currently hardly any examples. In this presentation, a prototype will be presented, that makes several proposals for the integration of spatial audio into a virtual wavetable synthesizer. The synthesizer generates object-based, format-agnostic spatial audio output with a variety of audio objects. Polyphonic voices and independent wavetable oscillators can be distributed to the audio objects and moved in space through parameters of the synthesis process.
The prototype was evaluated with experts from the fields of composition & sound design as well as post-production. The individual proposals of the implementation were predominantly evaluated positively and detailed feedback will be discussed in the presentation. It became clear that artistic research together with insights from psychoacoustics and innovative designs of virtual instruments are necessary to advance further developments in the field of sound synthesis and spatial audio.
The Presenters
Leon Hofmann - Stuttgart Media University
Leon Hofman is a 26 year old planning engineer for AV- and media technology installations in theaters and event locations. He received a Bachelor of Engineering in “Media and Acoustical Engineering” from the Mittweida University of Applied Sciences and graduated from Stuttgart Media University with a Master of Engineering in “Audiovisual Media”. During his work at d&b audiotechnik and Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, he gathered experience in sound reinforcement, room acoustics and psychoacoustics as well as software development. Leon enjoys working as live sound engineer for musical productions and bands and is active as composer, musician and singer.
Jonas Kieser - Stuttgart Media University
Studies in ‘Audiovisual Media’ (M.Eng.) at Stuttgart Media University with a focus on spatial audio and creative media conception. Semester abroad at IEM (Graz) with a focus on advanced sound design methods. Before, studies in ‘Audiovisual Media ‘ (B.Eng.) with a focus on media production.
Gold Award at Student 3D-Audio Production Competition for HOA studio production ‘Rhythm is a Dancer’. Bronze Award at AES Saul Walker Design Competition for the design of a ‘Spatial wavetable synthesizer’. Gold Award ‘Sound Talent’ at CommAwards for ‘Der Stille Klang’, an immersive installation. Special Award at Deutscher Multimediapreis for research and design project ‘How does tomorrow sound?’.
Freelance concepter and audio engineer for Klangerfinder (Atelier for auditive communication) and De Falcon (Music experience agency).
Maurice Strobel - Stuttgart Media University
Maurice Strobel is Tonmeister at Staatstheater Stuttgart while freelancing as a musician, sound designer and sound engineer. He received a Bachelor of Arts in “Sound and Music Production” from University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt while specializing in theatre sound at Staatstheater Darmstadt. Currently Maurice is finishing his master’s degree in “Audiovisual Media” at Stuttgart Media University. His research focuses on 3D sound recording and post-production for film and music. Maurice is a passionate musician, composer and recording engineer.
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The colloquium will be held in English with two presentations of 30 minutes each, followed by a 30-minute discussion.
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87050489898?pwd=N3NqM3FoNzIzWnY3NjdZWFdidm0xdz09
Code: 125721
The Meeting Format: We will be hosting this meeting using Zoom. Please use the link to join the meeting room, no registration needed. For most participants, audio and video are muted during the presentation. In the discussion they can be unmuted (indicated by the raised hand function). This will be explained again at the beginning of the meeting. For a better quality we suggest to use a headset with microphone. The presentation will be recorded. By turning on your camera you are consenting for your image to be used in a photograph of the event.
Other Business: There will be an open discussion after the talk.
Posted: Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Location: Zoom virtual Meeting (5pm Central European Time / Germany time zone)
Moderated by: Dr Elena Shabalina
Speaker(s): Dr Thomas Judd
Room acoustics simulation software is an important tool for improving acoustic environments, allowing proposed designs and retrofit options to be assessed in advance. Venues such as concert halls, offices, airports, teaching rooms, restaurants, and bars often have pressing acoustic issues and benefit from a virtual analysis. Commercial software tends to do this with geometrical acoustic techniques such as the sound particle method (akin to ray-tracing) as these provide a suitable compromise between accuracy and run times.
This presentation will review recent developments in this field and discuss interesting issues and challenges that have arisen for us and our customers in the last few years. Schemes for handling diffraction will be considered along with the troublesome topic of treating scattering correctly in these contexts. We’ll look at the different types of room acoustic parameter and discuss their pros and cons. The inter-connected themes of uncertainty analysis and geometrical level-of-detail will be presented along with the question of whether acoustic engineers need to model chairs in their simulations.
Finally, we’ll review some more exotic topics such as auralization, the apparently strange subject of high-performance sound processing on graphics cards, and prospects for using these methods outdoors, e.g. for open-air concerts. I’ll also offer my thoughts and tips on getting results with the greatest efficiency when using these methods and how to avoid trouble.
The Presenter
Thomas Judd - SoundPLAN GmbH
Dr. Thomas Judd is a software developer at SoundPLAN GmbH, specializing in indoor noise and room acoustics. He obtained his MSci and PhD from the University of Nottingham in the UK with a research focus on ultra-cold atoms. He subsequently lectured in computational quantum physics at the University of Tübingen in Germany before joining SoundPLAN in 2015.
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The colloquium will be held as a webinar session in English with a 60-minute presentation, followed by a 30-minute discussion in a separate Zoom session.
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j8S1O7oCTeWFyP5Kl0mrwQ
The Meeting Format: We will be hosting this meeting using Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. For most participants, audio and video are muted during the webinar session. In the discussion they can be unmuted (indicated by the raised hand function). This will be explained again at the beginning of the meeting. For a better quality we suggest to use a headset with microphone. The presentation will be recorded. By turning on your camera you are consenting for your image to be used in a photograph of the event.
Other Business: There will be an open discussion after the talk.
Posted: Saturday, September 4, 2021
Location: Zoom virtual Meeting (5pm Central European Time / Germany time zone)
Moderated by: Dr Elena Shabalina
Speaker(s): Yannik Grewe, Christian Simon
MPEG-H Audio is a next-generation audio technology for immersive and personalized sound, which has been significantly developed at Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen. Based on the MPEG-H-3D audio standard, viewers are offered a range of personalization features in addition to 3D audio. This allows viewers to customize audio content to their own preferences, for example in terms of language selection or speech intelligibility.
MPEG-H Audio enables universal delivery of audio content, which allows different formats and devices to be optimally played with just one production. This is achieved by providing metadata that is defined during production and offers broadcasters flexible control of interaction options.
In this webinar, we take a closer look on the available tools for production of object-based audio and present some interesting interactive and immersive next generation audio use cases.
The Presenters
Yannik Grewe - Fraunhofer IIS
With a specialization in audiovisual media, Yannik Grewe joined Fraunhofer IIS in 2013 and serves today as senior engineer for audio production technologies, focusing MPEG-H 3D Audio. His research in 3D audio production and reproduction technologies has resulted in the publication of several papers on these topics.
He is extensively involved as a sound engineer in producing immersive music applications and MPEG-H immersive and interactive Audio for major events, such as the European Athletics Championships, the Eurovision Song Contest or Rock in Rio.
His current role includes a close relation to major broadcasters and streaming service providers in Asia, Europe and South America to enable MPEG-H Audio in their ecosystems.
Christian Simon - Fraunhofer IIS
Dipl.-Tonmeister Christian Simon joined Fraunhofer IIS in 2016 as expert for AV production and accessibility solutions. He has over 15 years of experience in audio recording and post-production as freelancer, studio engineer and founder. His current professional focus is on object-based audio and automated workflows for broadcast and streaming applications. Christian is developing MPEG-H Audio related projects like Dialog+ with German and international broadcasters and is in close contact with industry partners, bringing Fraunhofer IIS technology to the market.
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The colloquium will be held as a webinar session in English with two presentations of 30 minutes each, followed by a 30-minute discussion in a separate Zoom session.
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_exJ-bwUNSMGcHgGodPTWuw
The Meeting Format: We will be hosting this meeting using Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. For most participants, audio and video are muted during the webinar session. In the discussion they can be unmuted (indicated by the raised hand function). This will be explained again at the beginning of the meeting. For a better quality we suggest to use a headset with microphone. The presentation will be recorded. By turning on your camera you are consenting for your image to be used in a photograph of the event.
Other Business: There will be an open discussion after the talk.
Posted: Sunday, June 27, 2021
Location: Zoom virtual Meeting (5pm Central European Time / Germany time zone)
Moderated by: Dr Elena Shabalina
Speaker(s): Miguel Conrad, Nicholas Clarke, Jamie Angus-Whiteoak
A lot of research is being done on sustainable product design to reduce environmental impact, increase efficiency and improve health and safety across various industries. How can these "green" topics be applied to audio? Three experts will present their perspectives on the "green theme" and energy efficiency in audio and will talk in particular about efficient amplifier topologies. What's behind Class "G"reen amplifiers?
The Presenters
Miguel Conradi - HARMAN International
Miguel Conradi is passionate about music, audio quality and technology. He's a Telecom Engineer specialised in Signal Processing. Miguel is a curious and engaged person, who loves bringing innovative ideas to his daily life.
Nicholas Clarke - HARMAN Luxury Audio
As Senior Director of Global Engineering for HARMAN Luxury Audio, Nicholas Clarke is responsible for guiding premier engineering teams around the world to create award-winning products for HARMAN Luxury Audio’s renowned brands, such as JBL Synthesis, Arcam, Lexicon, Mark Levinson and Revel. Before joining HARMAN in 2017, Clarke worked with Audiolab, which became TAG McLaren Audio, and became Chief Engineer there in 1998. After five years with TAG McLaren Audio, Nicholas was appointed Director of Engineering at International Audio Group. In 2006, Nicholas joined the A&R Cambridge team becoming Director of Engineering. Following 11 years of driving innovation with A&R Cambridge, Nicholas stepped into a new leadership position with the HARMAN organization. His experience, knowledge and passion for audio shines through high-performing, cutting-edge products such as the JBL Synthesis SDP-55 16-Channel Home Theater Processor and the JBL Synthesis SDR-35 16-Channel AVR featured in this article. He earned his degree in Electronics from Angela Ruskin University, Cambridge UK.
Jamie Angus-Whiteoak - Professor Emerita, Salford University
Jamie Angus-Whiteoak's interest in audio was crystallized at age 11 when she visited the WOR studios in NYC on a school trip in 1967. After this she was hooked, and spent much of her free time studying audio, radio, synthesizers, and loudspeakers, and even managed to build some!
She has worked in both industry and academia in diverse fields from integrated optics and acoustics to analogue and digital signal processing. Her expertise ranges from valve (tube) circuits to the applications of esoteric number theory in signal processing. She has pioneered degree level courses in both music technology and electronic engineering in the UK. She is the inventor of; modulated, wideband, and absorbing diffusers, direct processing of Super Audio CD signals, and one of the first 4-channel digital tape recorders. She has done work on signal processing, analogue circuits, and numerous other audio technology topics.
She has been awarded an AES fellowship, the IOA Peter Barnet Memorial Award, and the AES Silver Medal Award, for her contributions to audio and acoustics. For relaxation she likes playing drums and dancing, but not at the same time.
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The colloquium will be held as a webinar session in English with three presentations of 20 minutes each, followed by a 30-minute discussion in a separate Zoom session.
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JDbHcmRDRomWsuFBCOiOjA
The Meeting Format: We will be hosting this meeting using Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. For most participants, audio and video are muted during the webinar session. In the discussion they can be unmuted (indicated by the raised hand function). This will be explained again at the beginning of the meeting. For a better quality we suggest to use a headset with microphone. The presentation will be recorded. By turning on your camera you are consenting for your image to be used in a photograph of the event.
Other Business: There will be an open discussion after the talk.
Posted: Saturday, June 5, 2021
Location: Zoom virtual Meeting (5pm Central European Time / Germany time zone)
Moderated by: Dr Elena Shabalina
Speaker(s): Banu Sahin, Javier Frutos-Bonilla, Stefan Bock
If object-based audio is an established option for both consumer and professional audio, why isn´t there a continuous workflow between both worlds? In this colloquium, we approach the current situation from three different, but at the same time, related perspectives: loudspeaker system design, live show control and studio post-production. We will discuss the possibilities and limitations in various use-cases following a timeline of "before, during and after a show".
Presenters will encourage the audience to join in a final discussion and contribute with their viewpoints.
The Presenters
Banu Sahin - d&b audiotechnik
Graduated from the Audio Design / Music Technologies Program in the Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2014. During her Bachelor studies, she attended to the Institute for Computer Music and Electronic Media in the Folkwang University of the Arts for a year as an exchange student. In 2014, she was accepted for the Music Acoustics Master’s program of the Erich-Thienhaus-Institut, in the Detmold University of Music as a TEV/DAAD scholar. There she specialized in room acoustics and investigated the correlation in between room acoustical parameters and seat preferences in Detmold Concert Hall in her Master’s Thesis. In 2017, after her graduation she started in a manufacturer and pro audio solutions company, d&b audiotechnik, as a member of the Education and Application Support Department where she is still working for. She has a passion for immersive audio and has been involved in various d&b Soundscape applications during her employment.
Javier Frutos-Bonilla - d&b audiotechnik
Javier Frutos-Bonilla studied Technical Telecommunications Engineering at Carlos III University in Madrid, Spain and received his M.Sc. degree in Media Technology in 2013 from TU Ilmenau, Germany. From 2013 to 2018, he worked at Fraunhofer IDMT as System Engineer for different spatial audio applications. Since 2018, he is employed at d&b audiotechnik as System Designer and Trainer where he continues helping customers to create immersive experiences. Bregenz Festival, Klassik am Odeonsplatz, Zurich Opera House, Malmö Opera or Ankara Presidential Theatre were some novel projects in which Javier was involved.
Stefan Bock - msm studios studio group ltd.
Stefan is a multi-platinum award winning producer & mastering engineer. He started his career as audio engineer in 1987. He co-founded msm-studios in 1991, where he has been chief mastering engineer and general manager. Stefan led msm-studios to one of the most notable and renown mastering facilities in Germany where he mastered countless gold and platinum-winning records. In early 1998, Stefan started establishing msm as premium audio-visual post-production and DVD authoring facility. Since 2007, Stefan and his team have been involved in Blu-ray encoding and authoring services. Under his leadership applications like Pure Audio Blu-ray and mShuttle have been developed. He was involved in the very early stages of immersive audio and is an expert in formats like Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, Auro 3D and Fraunhofer MPEG-H.
Further information
Join Meeting
The colloquium will be held as a webinar session in English with three presentations of 20 minutes each, followed by a 30-minute discussion in a separate Zoom session.
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Rb-191ZQSUeMCjpTL3i-nQ
The Meeting Format: We will be hosting this meeting using Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. For most participants, audio and video are muted during the webinar session. In the discussion they can be unmuted (indicated by the raised hand function). This will be explained again at the beginning of the meeting. For a better quality we suggest to use a headset with microphone. The presentation won't be recorded. By turning on your camera you are consenting for your image to be used in a photograph of the event.
Other Business: There will be an open discussion after the talk.
Posted: Saturday, May 1, 2021
