INTRODUCTION & GENERAL INFORMATION

CHAIRMAN’S he AES returns to New York! The 115th AES locations available, see the separate form and WELCOME Convention, the premier audio event of the enclosed map. Please use this housing form to T year, will explore the latest technological book your hotel. It is highly recommended that this be done as early as possible. he AES 115th Convention is a collection advances in the audio world. A comprehensive showcase of audio technology combined with Reservations may also be secured online by of extraordinary events, drawing upon a stellar line up of papers sessions, tutorials, visiting www.aes.org/events/115 and clicking on the latest developments in audio T workshops, technical tours and special events the Hotel Information link. technology. This year’s technical program make the AES an invaluable resource for will offer more selections than ever before, today’s audio professional. and illustrates how far reaching the While addressing the issues our industry is faced “Power of Sound” can be. with today, the AES also looks ahead to the future MEETINGS HELD IN Especially exciting are the new additions to of audio. From breakthroughs in coding CONJUNCTION WITH technology to the impact surround sound the AES Convention program. For the first time THE 115TH CONVENTION production has on today’s mastering engineer, at a US show, Exhibitor and Tutorial Seminars the AES has it covered. will be presented, offering convention visitors Annual AES Business Meeting: a chance to see detailed showcases of ADVANCE REGISTRATION FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM— open to all AES members in good standing. products, and take advantage of lectures and Advance registration for the complete program presentations on a wide range of topics. The and exhibits is highly recommended and offered at Technical Committee Meetings: a reduced registration fee. To register in advance, AES furthers its role as an educator this year, Coordinated by the AES Technical Council, please complete the enclosed form and fax or the technical committees track trends in with a new student design competition. mail to the address indicated or register online audio in order to recommend to the Society This competition will encourage the design at www.aes.org, where a secure server makes special papers sessions, standards, projects, engineers of tomorrow to become even more registration and payment by credit card easy. publications and awards in their fields. involved in the industry. The latest news and updated schedules can The TC meetings are open to all convention The opening ceremonies are a chance for also be found at the AES web site. registrants and a meeting schedule will be available at www.aes.org (Technical Council). the industry to recognize and salute those Please note: The deadline for advance registration luminaries who have contributed to the is September 30, 2003. Standards Committee Meetings: Audio Engineering Society Standards audio industry. Our keynote will be Arif AT THE CONVENTION Committee meetings, subcommittee meetings Mardin, one of the prime architects of and working groups are open to the public. The on-site Registration Desk will be located in the The working group meetings begin two days contemporary music for more than four Crystal Palace at the Convention Center. Cash or before the opening of the Convention. decades. Mardin’s discography reads like a credit cards (Amex/MasterCard/Visa) may be used who’s-who in the history of rock, soul, and for on-site registration. The time and locations of the meetings are rhythm and blues. Mardin recently scored updated regularly on the AESSC web page. another bulls eye with the massive success INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOP, of new artist Norah Jones. PAPERS, TUTORIAL SEMINARS AND TECHNICAL TOURS SPECIAL EVENTS As the live sound arena continues to thrive, TICKETS we are pleased to be showcasing the latest Attendees who are registered for exhibits can Thursday, October 9 in surround sound technology with the purchase individual tickets to workshops, papers, 10:00 AM—6:00 PM presentation of Surround Live! This is the tutorial seminars and technical tours at the first time an AES convention has featured a Education Desk located in front of the 1E Hall: SURROUND LIVE! comprehensive event devoted exclusively to Workshops and Papers: $35.00 Chair: Fred Ampel, Technology Visions the creation, production and reproduction of Tutorial Seminars and Technical Tours: $20.00 Vice-Chairs: Keith Clark, Live Sound International; live performance audio in multi-channel Mark Herman, Live Sound International; surround. It’s being offered as a one-day CONVENTION INFORMATION Doug Jones, Columbia College, Chicago interactive workshop, and is a don’t miss Exhibit Hours Surround Live! Is the first ever, comprehensive event devoted for those live sound engineers. exclusively to the creation, production and reproduction of live Friday, October 10th Noon – 6:00 pm performance audio in multi-channel surround. By joining your colleagues at the 115th Saturday, October 11th 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Offered as a one-day interactive workshop, on Thursday, Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Sunday, October 12th 10:00 am – 6:00 pm October 9, 2003 in conjunction with the 115th Audio Monday, October 13th 10:00 am – 4:00 pm you are assured an experience that is both Engineering Society Convention in New York City, Surround informative and entertaining and the A list of participating exhibitors to date can be Live! will take place at the Manhattan Center Studios opportunity to be a part of the premier audio found on the back cover. complex’s Grand Ballroom. event of the year. The AES looks forward to Surround Live! will bring together working professionals from seeing you in bustling New York City! TRAVEL, HOTELS, AND the Tour Sound, Broadway Theater, Broadcast and Recording ENJOYING NEW YORK Industries to discuss the issues and technological challenges Zoe Thrall A number of hotel rooms in New York have created by presenting music, drama, and theater in full multi- 115th AES Convention Chair been reserved for convention attendees at spe- channel surround audio formats to an audience. Attendees cial meeting rates. For more information on the will be able to experience the process of creating and 2 SPECIAL EVENTS (continued)

Thursday, presenting multi-channel audio for a variety of live applica- Friday, ® October 9 tions, and how this differs from the processes associated with 15TH ANNUAL GRAMMY October 10 4:00 PM— 10:00 AM— multi-channel work done in a post-production environment. RECORDING SOUNDTABLE 6:00 PM The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc. 6:00 PM EVENTS: ® 9:00 am–10:00 am: Registration at Manhattan Center will present the 15th Annual GRAMMY Recording Special Events 10:00 am–12:00 noon: Formal presentations SoundTable. This has become a very popular feature of AES are free of charge 12:00 noon–1:00 pm: Lunch (included) conventions and this one promises to continue that trend. Further details will be available shortly. and open to all 1:00 pm–2:00 pm: Formal presentations registered 2:00 pm–5:00 pm: Live performance demo and attendees, unless workshop on surround mixing Friday, AES MIXER October 10 otherwise noted. 5:00 pm–6:00 pm: Panel discussion and conclusion The AES Mixer is an informal get-together where you can your 7:00 PM— A variety of Registration Fees: industry friends and colleagues in a social atmosphere after 9:00 PM events covering a AES Members: USD 80 advance, USD 100 on site; the day’s activities. broad range of Non-members: USD 100 advance, USD 120 on site. interests are This fee includes coffee breaks and lunch and access to all Saturday, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS planned to four days of the 115th AES Convention Exhibits at the Jacob October 11 Javits Convention Center. There are price reductions available Moderator: George Massenburg 9:00 AM— encourage all 11:00 AM to students or if you combine this Symposium with the Full attendees, from Panelists: Peter Alyea, LOC; Program registration for the 115th AES Convention. Samuel Brylawski, LOC students to You are encouraged to register in advance, as there is a limit The panel will discuss the criteria used to select the first fifty seasoned to the number that can be admitted to this symposium. recordings for the National Registry of Recorded Sound. This is professionals, to This event is in part sponsored and supported by Digico, the first part of an ongoing project. participate. Meyer Sound Labs, Shure and the TC Group. Saturday, AUDIO PROCESSING FOR October 11 Friday, BROADCAST October 10 OPENING CEREMONIES AND 11:30 AM— 11:30 AM— AWARDS PRESENTATIONS Moderator: Joe Capobianco, Cross-Country Communications 2:00 PM 1:00 PM The opening ceremonies include the AES awards presenta- Panelists: Marvin Caesar, Aphex; tion, which acknowledges the work of individuals whose out- Mike Dorrough, Dorrough standing contributions to the Society enhance our industry. A Frank Foti, Omnia Audio; list of award recipients will appear in the Convention Program. Rocky Graham, Dolby Leonard Kahn, Kahn Communications; Keynote Address: Arif Mardin, General Manager of Thomas Lund, TC Electronics; Manhattan Records Robert Reams, Neural Audio; Arif Mardin, has been one of the prime architects of David Reaves, Translantech contemporary music for more than four decades. A skilled Once audio is mastered and sent to the broadcaster, passes pianist, arranger and composer, Mardin’s discography reads thru various audio processors, affecting the presentation of like a who’s-who in the history of rock, soul, and rhythm and the product. This event will feature discussion by leaders and blues: Young Rascals, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Patti pioneers of broadcast audio processing on compression, LaBelle, Bee Gees (yes, he’s the guy who first got Maurice expansion, equalization curves and psychoacoustics.

Gibb to sing in falsetto!), Average White Band, Hall and Oates, SATURDAY Roberta Flack, Bette Midler, Chaka Khan, and Phil Collins, to FRIDAY Saturday, name just a few. Mardin recently scored another bull’s eye PLATINUM PRODUCERS October 11 with the massive success of new artist Norah Jones. How has the art of music recording changed over the past 12:30 PM— 2:00 PM four decades? What is the state of the art today, and Friday, where is recording going? Join us for a lively, fascinating October 10 REBUILDING OF NEW YORK discussion as some of the world’s top record producers talk 1:30 PM— BROADCASTING about how far we’ve come and get out their crystal ball for 4:00 PM Organizers: David K. Bialik, Systems Engineering Consultant a glimpse into the future. Howard Price, ABC Panelists: Joe Giardina, DSI; John Lyons, Durst Organization; Saturday, Kevin Plumb, WABC, WPLJ; Steve Shultis, SPARS BUSINESS PANEL October 11 WNYC Radio; Thomas Silliman, ERI Inc. Moderator: TBA 4:00 PM— The effect of the events of September 11 marked the first 6:00 PM Panelists: TBA time in recent history that a US major market needed to The Society of Professional Audio Recording Services redesign an entire city’s broadcast transmission system. (SPARS) is a twenty-four-year-old professional organization Transmission facilities existing at the World Trade Center and dedicated to sharing practical, hands-on business Empire State Building before and after September 11 will be information about audio facility ownership, management, discussed, and the solutions implemented immediately after and operations.This event, which is co-hosted by the AES, systems were disabled that day will be presented. features an elite panel of studio owners and managers The event will also explore the transmission systems currently who will explore strategies for adapting your business to (Special Events in place and feature a look at the new plans for the Empire changing times. continued on State Building, 4 Times Square, and Freedom Tower. page 4) 3 SPECIAL EVENTS (continued)

Saturday, Peter Mapp, Peter Mapp & Associates, Essex, UK October 11 RICHARD C. HEYSER MEMORIAL (Speech Intelligibility issues and measurement); 6:40 PM— LECTURE AND RECEPTION, Durand Begault, NASA/Ames Research 8:30 PM FEATURING RAY KURZWEIL Center, Moffett Field, CA (Hearing, Perception The Richard C. Heyser Memorial Lecturer this time is Ray and understanding) Kurzweil. His presentation will be followed by a Reception Understanding how the human ear hears a sound system, hosted by the AES Technical Council and the kinds of limitations and damage that exist within Presentation Title: the listening population is not often considered in current “The Future of Music in the Age of Spiritual Machines.” sound system tuning and optimization practice. Music is the only cultural expression common to every human This first ever presentation/workshop supported by data from society that we are aware of. Musical expression has always the House Ear Institute and presented by a panel of world used the most advanced technologies available, from ancient recognized experts including Audiology and hearing disabilities drums, the cabinet-making crafts of the eighteenth century, the authority Jeanne Stiernberg and Frederick Ampel who has mechanical linkages of the nineteenth century, the analog more than 3.5 decades of sound systems experience, will electronics of the mid twentieth century, the digital technology define and discuss the knowledge available to take advantage of the 1980s and 1990s to the artificial intelligence coming in of how the ear perceives sound and compensate for the the twenty-first century. Communication bandwidths, the actual hearing and perceptive capabilities of real populations. shrinking size of technology, our knowledge of the human brain, and human knowledge in general are all accelerating. Sunday, Kurzweil’s keynote will illustrate how the concepts and process CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE TOUR October 12 of music will be transformed once again. This tour will be followed by an ORGAN CONCERT by 6:30 PM— Graham Blyth. 7:15 PM Sunday, October 12 DIGITAL BROADCASTING IN ORGAN CONCERT BY Sunday, 12:00 NOON— THE UNITED STATES October 12 2:30 PM GRAHAM BLYTH Moderator: David K. Bialik, Systems Engineering Consultant 7:30 PM— This concert will be given in the Central Synagogue, 8:30 PM Panelists: Leonard Kahn, Kahn Communications; following the tour. Mark Kalman, Sirius; David Layer, NAB; Tony Masiello, XM; Dr. H. Donald Messer, Monday, International Broadcast Bureau—Voice of TEMPLES OF SOUND October 13 America, Digital Radio Mondiale; Robert Reams, All great music has a birthplace. “Temples of Sound” tells 10:30 AM— Neural Audio ; Dave Wilson, CEA the stories of the legendary studios where musical genius 12:00 NOON The arrival of Digital Television, Satellite Radio, and In Band and a magical space came together to capture some of the On Channel (IBOC) in the United States has made a reality most exciting records ever made. Authors Jim Cogan and of Digital Broadcasting. Many consumers and broadcasters William Clark will be our guide. are migrating to the new technologies, and the AES NY convention has been presenting the facts on the digital Monday, ROAD WARRIORS: LIVE SOUND broadcast revolution for more than a decade. October 13 This freewheeling panel of touring professionals will cover 12:30 PM— This year’s event will feature a look at Radio Mondiale as the latest trends, techniques, and tools that shape modern 2:00 PM the next step to creating a digital shortwave service, a sound reinforcement. The all-star panel will cover subjects review of Codec technology, and a discussion of the

SUNDAY ranging from gear to gossip, in what promises to be an availability of receivers for consumer consumption. entertaining and educational 90 minutes, with the engineers on the business side of the microphone, saying Sunday, October 12 PLATINUM ENGINEERS something besides “testing” and “check” for a change! 12:30 PM— We’ve gathered some of today’s hottest engineers together; 2:00 PM join as they discuss the tricks, techniques, mindset, and ROAD WARRIORS: LIVE RECORDING Monday, October 13 technologies that allow them to carry out their role—and TIPS AND TECHNIQUES 2:30 PM— how you can apply this information to your own situation. Moderator: Randy Ezratty, Effanel Music, New York 4:00 PM Panelists: John Alagia, Guy Charboneau, Dave Hewitt, Sunday, Remote Recording Services October 12 SOUND SYSTEMS AND HUMAN 3:00 PM— HEARING—HOW TO MAXIMIZE Until recently, live multi-track recordings and broadcasts 6:00 PM SYSTEM PERFORMANCE FOR THE were the exclusive domain of a small, specialized group of REAL WORLD “mobile recording studios”. But as in every other segment of our industry, technological advances have created other Moderator: Frederick Ampel, President & Principal viable (and some dubious) methods for capturing live Technology Visions, Overland Park, KS performances. (Opening remarks and session overview theme) This workshop will highlight the pros and cons of traditional Panelists: Jeanne Stiernberg, Principal Stiernberg and burgeoning methodologies (along with a few real-world Consulting, Los Angeles, CA (Audiological issues “war stories” from the road). overview); Matthew. Bakke, Gallaudet University, Washington,D.C. (Audiology Segment); Ted Uzzle, Columbia College, Chicago. IL

(Room Acoustics/Noise and Intelligibility); MONDAY 4 TUTORIAL SEMINARS

Friday, This seminar addresses the surround mixing process— TS-1: MICROPHONE TECHNIQUES October 10 technically and philosophically. Topics to be addressed 9:00 AM— FOR STEREO AND SURROUND 11:30 AM include: The overall soundscape, the role of the sub-woofer, Chair: Geoff Martin, Bang & Olufsen A/S, Struer, Denmark surround panning, effects in surround, and the unique How have the demands of surround sound affected micro- requirements for broadcast. phone techniques? This seminar will explore the way that microphones can be used to enhance surround sound mixing. Saturday, TS-6: ALL ABOUT: A/D CONVERTERS October 11 Friday, Chair: Dan Lavry, Lavry Engineering, Seattle, WA, USA 11:30 AM— October 10 TS-2: THE BASICS OF 1:30 PM 1:00 PM— DIGITAL AUDIO: A SEMINAR Panelists: Robert Adams, Analog Devices; Richard Cabot, 3:30 PM WITH DEMONSTRATIONS XFRM Inc.; David Smith, Sony Music Studios, NYC, USA Presenters: Stanley P. Lipschitz, John Vanderkooy, This tutorial workshop will review the key issues regarding University of Waterloo, Canada the design and use of A/D converters. Almost no other type of gear garners more discussion and impassioned loyalty This is an introductory-level seminar aiming to explain and than these devices. Topics to be addressed: What gives an demonstrate with “live” examples the two fundamental A/D converter its sound? How does converter architecture, aspects of any digital audio system—sampling and quantization. clocks, jitter and bits impact sound? What are the issues These two operations will be discussed and illustrated in beyond the generic specification sheet? real-time using a custom-built sampler and quantizer. This will enable us to present some of the pathologies of such Saturday, systems, which should not normally be audible, and also TS-7: ALL ABOUT: COMPRESSORS October 11 show that, when properly implemented, a digital system has 2:00 PM— Compressors are commonly used in all aspects of the audio analog characteristics. This will make the presentation 3:30 PM interesting to newcomers and “old pros” alike. signal chain, in live performances, broadcast and in the studio. This seminar is designed to explain how compressors work, Friday, where and how they can best be used, as well as discussing October 10 TS-3: POWERED LOUDSPEAKERS recent developments in compressor design, including the 3:30 PM— Chair: John Meyer, Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc., role of side chain analysis and multi-band compressors. 5:00 PM Berkeley, CA, USA The use of self-amplified loudspeakers has dominated the Saturday, designs of studio monitors. More recently a large number of TS-8: ALL ABOUT: MICROPHONE October 11 both small and large format powered loudspeakers have PREAMPLIFIERS 3:30 PM— 5:00 PM been designed to serve live reinforcement applications. Presenters: Eric Blackmere, Earthworks; These speakers vary from inexpensive plastic boxes to high John Lagrou, Millenia, Placerville, CA, USA tech, systems with networkable DSP on-board. Microphone preamplifiers have become a critical component This seminar will explore the advantages and design and in both the live and recording worlds. Few audio products use implications of self-powered loudspeakers. have a wider cost spread with such similar specifications. Friday, This seminar addresses the key issues in microphone October 10 TS-4: GROUNDING AND SHIELDING preamplifier design, selection and use. Issues to be reviewed 5:00 PM— Chair: Bill Witlock, Jensen Transformers, Van Nuys, CA, USA are: The use of transformers, amount of gain, self-noise, 6:30 PM Grounding and shielding techniques, at both the equipment impedance, distortion and perceived sonic differences. and system level, have profound effects on immunity to interference. High-performance professional audio systems Saturday, routinely encounter interference ranging in frequency from TS-9: ALL ABOUT: EQUALIZERS October 11 5:00 PM— 50/60 Hz utility-power up to several GHz. A tutorial overview Presenters: Dennis Bohn, Rane Corp., Mukilteo, WA, USA; 6:30 PM will explain basic interference coupling mechanisms as well Bruce Jackson, Don Pearson, Ultra Sound-Pro as widely used grounding and shielding strategies. Media, San Rafael, CA, USA Expert panelists will discuss tradeoffs involved in these Equalizers are perhaps the most commonly used tools in strategies, results of various equipment and cable tests, and recording, broadcast and live audio. This seminar will review recommendations for equipment and system designers. A the key issues of: design, configuration, digital vs. analog, question and answer session will follow. parametric & graphic and real-world use of equalizers.

Saturday, Sunday, October 11 TS-5: SURROUND SOUND MIXING— TS-10 AUDIO NETWORKS October 12 9:00 AM— 9:00 AM— TIPS AND TECHNIQUES, A WORK IN Chair: Deb Britton, Peak Audio, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 11:30 AM PROGRESS 11:00 AM The ability to move digital audio from one place to another via Chair: Randy Ezratty, Effanel Music, Inc., New York, NY, USA networks has taken several forms. Audio Networks now con- Panelists: Kevin Killen, Independent Engineer/Producer; nect the live mixing consoles with the stage, inter-connect Bob Ludwig, Gateway Mastering & DVD, studios, distribute audio and control signals around large Portland, ME, USA; Elliot Scheiner, Independent facilities and move audio across the Internet. Being part of Engineer/Producer the computer revolution, this technology is always in flux. Mixing for surround, both in the studio and for live broadcast, This seminar is designed to explore how this technology (continued presents many challenges and creative opportunities. works and where it is headed. on page 6) 5 TUTORIAL SEMINARS (continued)

Sunday, the best pickup of [insert your favorite instrument here.] October 12, TS-11: SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION That is an entirely different tutorial session. However, once 11:00 AM— Chair: Michael Goodman, Centrance Inc, Morton Grove, IL you’ve chosen the microphone and its location, if you want 12:30 PM Most sound systems are not well optimized. While this is to know how to get the microphone into that position most commonly regarded as true, just what is an optimized effectively and obtain optimum performance—free from system? System optimization involves setting up a system intrusive mechanical noises, wind pops or blasts—this to make sure that a system has ‘optimum’ interaction with seminar is for you. both itself and its acoustical environment. In recent years a Monday, number of new tools have become available for helping TS-17: LISTENING TESTS IN October 13 engineers optimize system performance. PRACTICE 1:30 PM— 6:00 PM This workshop will review the concept of system optimization Chair: Nick Zacharov, Nokia Research Center, Audio-Visual and what areas of a system can be optimized once Systems Laboratory, Tampere, Finland installed and which require alteration of the system or Panelists: Søren Bech, Bang and Olufsen a/s, Struer, acoustical environment. Denmark; Durand Begault, NASA Ames Sunday, Research Center, Mountain View, CA, USA; October 12, TS-12: ALL ABOUT: FIREWIRE & USB William L. Martens, McGill University, Montreal, 1:30 PM— Chair: Michael Goodman Canada; Sean Olive, Harman International 3:00 PM Firewire and USB connections are two of the most commonly Industries, Inc., Martinsville, IN, USA; Gilbert used ways to connect audio interfaces and storage devices Soulodre, Communications Research Centre, to a computer. USB has recently been upgraded to 2.0 while Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Thomas Sporer, Firewire has become increasingly common on all types of Fraunhofer IIS/AEMT, Ilmenau, Germany personal computers. This seminar will review the capabilities, This workshop presents a short but effective guide to limitations and advances of these two standards. preparing, performing and analyzing data for listening tests. The first part of the workshop will provide a general Sunday, overview of experimental design methods that are October 12, TS-13: ALL ABOUT: PERSONAL generically applicable to all types of listening tests. The 3:00 PM— STAGE MONITORING second part of the workshop will specifically consider three 4:30 PM Chair: Marty Garcia, Futuresonics, Pineville, PA, USA main types of listening test categories, providing examples Personal stage monitoring has become a staple of both of how they are correctly performed/analyzed and what is broadcast and live sound. This seminar will review the key their scope of applicability. issues in how the performance of personal stage monitors is defined and how these units can best be used. HISTORICAL EXHIBIT Sunday, October 12, TS-14: RIGGING FOR DUMMIES 4:30 PM— Hanging equipment above performers and audiences is 6:30 PM VINYL GOES DIGITAL extremely commonplace. However, most audio engineers Friday, October 10 Saturday, October 11 are not familiar with the basic principles of safe rigging. 12:00 noon - 6:00 pm 10:00 am - 6:00 pm This seminar will introduce these principles, and review Sunday, October 12 Monday, October 13 safety practices. 10:00 am - 6:00 pm 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Monday, The exhibit will feature nuts-and-bolts, hands-on living October 13, TS-15: ALL ABOUT: TIME DOMAIN history that will graphically and sonically trace the tricky 9:00AM— MEASUREMENTS transition from vinyl biscuits to binary bits. During the four 10:30 AM days some of the movers and shakers who nursed that Presenter: Sam Berkow, SIA Acoustics/WSDG, NYC, NY, USA revolution will be on hand. They will explain and demonstrate Most audio measurements are made in the frequency some of the vintage gear that sliced and diced analog wave- domain. However in many cases, making time domain forms into byte-sized pieces that computers could digest and measurements can be very informative in ways that frequency sort out. Top recording engineers and record producers will play domain measurements are not. Time domain measurements back master Recordings and talk about how they were created. can be critical in applications ranging from loudspeaker alignment to measurements of room acoustics. This seminar will focus on the value of time domain measurements. NEW EXHIBITOR SEMINARS Monday, October 13, TS-16: WORKING WITH MICRO- 10:30 AM— PHONES—A PRACTICAL REVIEW These will be presentations by Exhibitors at the 115th convention giving more 12:30 PM in-depth information about their products than they are able to give on their Presenter: Ron Streicher, Pacific AV Enterprises, booth. It is a unique opportunity for exhibitors to be able to explain the techni- Pasadena, CA, USA cal background and features of a product to an audience in a seminar style. The focus of this seminar will be a hands-on demonstration of many of the practical aspects of using microphones: Exhibitor Seminars were first held at the AES 114th convention in Amsterdam earlier this year and were a tremendous success and so we expect them to be mounting hardware, shock isolation, pop screens, cables, very popular in New York. Many exhibitors have already asked to be included in powering systems, etc. Techniques for rigging or "flying" this program of seminars and a full listing will be published soon at www.aes.org. microphones and arrays also will be presented. What will not be discussed is how or where to put a microphone for 6 WORKSHOPS

Friday, Saturday, October 10 W1: DIGITAL AUDIO W5: SOUND FOR BROADWAY October 11 9:00 AM— WORKSTATIONS Chair: Scott Lehrer 11:00 AM— 11:00 AM 1:00 PM Chair: David Malecpour, Pro Audio Design, Boston, MA, USA Panelists: Tom Clark, ACME; Peter Fitzgerald, Sound Associates; Lou Meade, Independent Panelists: Chris Athens, Sterling Sound, NYC, USA Broadway sound systems are a unique blend of leading The Digital Audio Workstation has become the centerpiece edge technology and old-school theatrical production of many recording studios, acting as recorder, mixer, editor, values. From a large numbers of wireless microphones, to router, effects rack and even a host of virtual instruments. complex loudspeaker systems, to sometimes-difficult talent, The way that DAWs are used in studios is currently evolving designing for Broadway presents unique challenges. This at an extremely rapid pace. This workshop will explore the workshop explores how some of Broadway’s leading configuration of the DAW and how it fits into the studio and designers address this set of challenges. even live environments. Saturday, Friday, W6: AUTOMOTIVE AUDIO October 11 October 10 W2: HIGH RESOLUTION AUDIO— Chair: Richard S. Stroud, Chairman AES Automotive Audio 2:00 PM— 1:00 PM— DEAD OR ALIVE? Technical Committee 4:30 PM 4:00 PM Chair: Alan Silverman, Arf! Digital Developers of automotive audio systems, both OEM designers and the aftermarket installers share the goal of customer Panelists: David Chesky, Chesky Records; Malcolm Hawksford satisfaction. Their customers want great sound and, in the Practicing audio engineers are faced with a dizzying array aftermarket, the restrictions of cost and space are some- of competing present and future high-resolution formats. what modified. Additionally, the expectations of power and The dilemma is now compounded by the question of bass are magnified. This workshop will give the AES’s OEM- whether high-res audio is even relevant to the general heavy audience a look at opportunities and challenges in consumer. This ambitious and forward-looking workshop the world of aftermarket automotive audio. will present new developments and strategies driving technologies such as SACD, DVD-A, Blue Ray DVD, and Saturday, broadband streaming along TCP/IP networks. W7: LINE ARRAYS October 11 Chair: Dave Gunness, EAW 4:30 PM— The workshop is intended to be of vital interest to working 6:30 PM FRIDAY engineers, studio owners, broadcasters and educators with Panelists: Mark Engenbretson, JBL an interest in the future possibilities of high-resolution audio. The use of line arrays, long a part of sound reinforcement, has become the dominant configuration of concert loudspeaker Friday, cluster designs. In the past years, improvements in rigging, October 10 W3: AUDIO FOR GAMES DSP control, self powered units and understanding of usage, 4:00 PM— Chair: Martin Wilde, Motorola, Inc. all have lead to further improvements in line arrays. This work- 6:30 PM shop will review the state of the art in line array technology. Games have long been a staple of the PC computer world. Once exhibiting only paltry audio support, modern Sunday, computers and native gaming platforms now sport very W8: INTERACTIVE IMMERSIVE October 12 Attendees who high quality audio specifications and capabilities. SONIC SCENES: MPEG-4 9:00 AM— are registered for With the advent of multichannel games, these systems are AUDIOBIFS MODELS & STRUCTURED 11:00 AM exhibits can increasingly being hooked up to home theater systems. AUDIO IN REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS attend individual On the development side, there is increasing pressure to Chair: Giorgio Zoia, EPFL, Switzerland workshops ship game titles on all the major platforms simultaneously, Panelists: Kevin Larke, Kodiran Inc., USA; Jan Plogsties, by paying a and gaming on the Internet has exploded. In the midst of Fraunhofer Institute, Germany; Schuyler all this change, it has become an increasingly important $35 fee at the Quackenbush, Audio Research Labs, USA; and difficult challenge to handle the audio across all of Juergen Schmidt, Thomson, Germany Educational Desk. these different channels. This workshop delivers the With the definition of the MPEG-4 Audio and Systems goods on all of these issues, and more. standards, a comprehensive and universal toolbox for representing audio content became available. Over time, Saturday, October 11 W4: DESIGN OF TECHNICAL more and more components of this standard have found 9:00 AM—11:00 AM SYSTEMS FOR SPORTS FACILITIES their way into real-word applications, including general audio coding and scalable coding. This workshop illustrates Chair: Jack Wrightson,WJHW how another layer of the MPEG-4 content representation is Panelists: Dan Abelson, IGS, Inc.; Will Parry, SPL; increasingly used to create attractive applications, in SUNDAY Brad Ricks, Harman Professional Systems connection with other above mentioned components. Production values of sports facilities have long been on the W9: DVD AUTHORING Sunday, rise. Speech intelligibility is no longer the only requirement October 12 for most new sports facilities, where full impact music Chair: Bob Ludwig, Gateway Mastering, Portland, USA 11:00 AM— reproduction is also a large part of the production. DVD authoring is a new area, with ever changing set of 1:00 PM This workshop will address the various configurations of rules and goals. Audio for DVDs comes in many flavors. systems being used in sports facilities, the differences, This workshop is designed to explore the current state of between sports, logistical issues in dealing with such large DVD authoring, explaining what tools are available and what facilities and operational issues. options they provide. (continued SATURDAY on page 8) 7 WORKSHOPS (continued) STUDENT PROGRAMS Sunday, October 12 W10: MASTERING 1:30 PM— Moderator: Dave Glasser, Airshow Mastering 3:30 PM The AES Convention provides Panelists: Bob Ludwig, Gateway Mastering & DVD; Darcy Proper, Sony Music Studios; Andy VanDette, student members around the world Masterdisk; Jonathan Wyner, M-Works with an opportunity to meet and share Audio mastering encompasses a wide range of disciplines. experiences related to education A panel of veteran mastering engineers will discuss in the field of audio. mastering for varied release formats including CD, DVD (V & A), SACD; surround mastering issues; preparing catalog and historical material for reissue; mastering studio Friday, STUDENT DELEGATE ASSEMBLY workflow and technical infrastructure; and other topics. October 10 MEETING 1 6:00 PM— Chair: Dell Harris 7:00 PM Sunday, October 12 W11: PRACTICAL STUDIO DESIGN Vice-Chair: Scott Cannon 3:30 PM— Chair: John Storyk, WSDG Current student officers will preside over the first Student 6:30 PM Whether in the basement of a home or a major multi-room Delegate Assembly, of interest to all students and educators complex, the design of studios should be done with an eye attending the convention. A descriptive overview of confer- toward practicality. In this sense, being practical means, ence events for students will be given, including the avail- making best use of the space available, treatments selected ability and sign up procedures for Mentoring Sessions with and support facilities, such as power and HVAC systems. industry leaders. This opening meeting of the SDA will also This workshop will review studio design and construction, introduce the candidates for chair and vice chair of the with an eye toward practicality. North/South America Regions for the coming year. Election results will be announced at the second Student Delegate Assembly on Monday, October 13, at 12:30 pm. Monday, October 13 W12: AUDIO GETS SMART—THE Saturday, 9:00 AM— WHAT AND WHY OF SEMANTIC AUDIO STUDENT POSTER SESSION & 10:30 AM October 11 ANALYSIS DESIGN COMPETITION 10:00 AM— Chair: Mark Sandler, University of London, UK The event will display the scholarly/research/creative works 11:30 AM Panelists: Michael Casey, Dan Ellis, Juergen Herre from AES student members. Since many institutions are In this workshop, three leading international experts will each engaged in both research and applied sciences of audio, offer a personal view of the technologies and opportunities this session will provide an opportunity to display and brought to audio engineering by Semantic Audio Analysis. discuss these accomplishments with professionals, The new Technical Committee of the AES has been established educators, and other students. For the first time, a new to represent this emerging area, and has as one of its initial Design Project Competition will be introduced for projects aims, the goal of promoting SAA within the Audio Engineering made by any current AES student member. Details can be community. In a strict sense, Semantic Audio Analysis means found at www.aes.org/students/. the extraction of features from audio (live or recorded) that Saturday, have some human relevance—rhythm, notes, phrases, or ONE ON ONE MENTORING October 11 have some physical correlate—instrument, moving vehicle, SESSION—1 2:00 PM— singing bird. The workshop will highlight examples where SAA 4:00 PM MONDAY Students are invited to sign-up for an individual meeting can supplement all our interactions with music and audio to with distinguished mentors from the audio industry. Signups provide new work and recreational experiences. can be found near the student area of the convention, and all students are invited to participate in this exciting and Monday, rewarding opportunity for focused discussion. October 13, W13: SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY 10:30 AM— Chair: Peter Mapp, Peter Mapp Associates, Colchester, UK Sunday, 12:30 PM EDUCATION FAIR October 12 Speech intelligibility is a key requirement of most installed Institutions offering studies in audio—from short courses to 10:30 AM— sound systems. Attempts to predict and measure speech graduate degrees—will be represented in a “tabletop 12:00 NOON intelligibility require an understanding of loudspeaker session.” Information on each school’s respective programs directionality, room acoustics and human hearing. This will be made available through the display of literature and workshop will explore the many tools and methods academic guidance sessions with representatives. There is available to help both system designers and operators to no charge for schools to participate and admission is free achieve this critical performance goal. and open to everyone.

Monday, Sunday, October 13, W14: SURROUND FROM STEREO ONE ON ONE MENTORING October 12 1:30 PM— Chair: David Griesinger, Lexicon SESSION—2 2:00 PM— 3:00 PM 4:00 PM In both the home theater and cars, two channel recordings Students are invited to sign-up for an individual meeting are being processed to create surround outputs. How does with distinguished mentors from the audio industry. Signups this process work, and are the results effective? This work- can be found near the student area of the convention, and shop will look at this technology, both to explain the all students are invited to participate in this exciting and process and review its place in the current market place. rewarding opportunity for focused discussion. 8 TECHNICAL PAPERS

Sunday, Friday, October 12 STUDENT RECORDING SESSION A: October 10 2:30 PM— COMPETITION AUDIO FOR GAMES 9:00 AM— 6:30 PM (INVITED PAPERS) 11:30 AM Co-Hosts: Don Puluse; William Moylan, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Chair: Martin Wilde, Wildeworks, Chicago, IL, USA Finalists selected by an elite panel of judges will give brief A-1: Interoperable Synthetic Audio Formats for Mobile Applications and Games—Matti Hämäläinen, Nokia Research descriptions and play recordings in the Classical and Center, Tampere, Finland Jazz/Pop categories. One submission per school per category. Details can be found on the AES Students A-2: Preview: Interactive XMF—A Standardized Interchange File Format for Advanced Interactive Audio Content— Website. Meritorious awards will be presented at the Chris Grigg, MIDI Manufacturers Association, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Student Delegate Assembly 2 meeting. Beatnik Inc., San Mateo, CA, USA; Control-G, Oakland, CA, USA 2:30 pm—3:30 pm Classical Category A-3: Computer Games and Multichannel Audio Quality—The 3:30 pm—4:30 pm Surround Classical Category Effect of Division of Attention between Auditory and Visual Modalities, Part II—Rafael Kassier, Slawomir Zielinski, Francis 4:30 pm—5:00 pm Jazz/Folk Category Rumsey, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK; Soren Bech, Bang & Olufsen a/s, Struer, Denmark 5:00 pm—6:00 pm Pop/Rock Category FRIDAY A-4: Towards Mix Level Standardization for Games—Tom Hays, 6:00 pm—6:30 pm Surround Non-Classical Category Treyarch Games Judges to be announced. A-5: Interactive Mixing of Game Audio—Brian Schmidt, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA Monday, October 13 EDUCATION FORUM Friday, 10:00 AM— Co-Hosts: Don Puluse; William Moylan, SESSION Z1: October 10 12:00 NOON University of Massachusetts, Lowell POSTERS: 10:00 AM— ACOUSTICS AND SOUND 11:30 AM This event is a meeting of the AES Education Committee, REPRODUCTION teachers, authors, students, and AES members interested in Z1-1: Wavelet-Based Multiple Point Equalization of Room the issues of primary and continuing audio education. It is Transfer Function—Jae-Jin Jeon, Lae-Hoon Kim, Koeng-Mo Sung, an opportunity to discuss the programs of the Education Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Committee and to provide input for future projects. Z1-2: The Time When the Reverberation Tail in a Binaural Room Impulse Response Begins—Kittiphong Meesawat, Dorte Monday, Hammershøi, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark October 13 ONE ON ONE MENTORING 10:00 AM— SESSION—3 Z1-3: Hybrid M Sequences for Room Impulse Response Please note: 12:00 NOON Estimation—Joel Preto Paulo, Carlos Rodrigues Martins, Escola Students are invited to sign-up for an individual meeting Náutica Infante D. Henrique, Paço D'Arcos, Oeiras, Portugal; José L. The final order with distinguished mentors from the audio industry. Signups Bento Coelho, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal for presentation can be found near the student area of the convention, and Z1-4: Active Field Control (AFC)—Reverberation Enhancement of papers may all students are invited to participate in this exciting and System Using Acoustical Feedback Control—Hideo Miyazaki, vary slightly rewarding opportunity for focused discussion. Takayuki Watanabe, Shinji Kishinaga, Fukushi Kawakami, Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan from this preliminary Monday, Z1-5: Designing a Spherical Microphone Array for the October 13 STUDENT DELEGATE ASSEMBLY Directional Analysis of Reflections and Reverberation—Bradford schedule. 12:30 PM— MEETING—2 N. Gover, National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; James 1:30 PM G. Ryan, Gennum Corporation, Kanata, Ontario, Canada; Michael R. Chair: Dell Harris Stinson, National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Vice-Chair: Scott Cannon Z1-6: Practical Implementation of Constant Beamwidth At this meeting the SDA will elect new officers. One vote Transducer (CBT) Loudspeaker Circular-Arc Line Arrays— D. B. (Don) Keele, Jr., Harman/Becker Automotive Systems, will be cast by the designated representative from each Martinsville, IN, USA recognized AES student section in the North/South America Z1-7: Acoustical Evaluation of Virtual Rooms by Means of Regions. Judges’ comments and awards will be presented for Binaural Activity Patterns—Wolfgang Hess, Ruhr-Univeristy the Recording Competitions and the Student Poster/Project Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Harman/Becker Automotive Systems, Design Sessions. Plans for future student activities at local, Ittersbach, Germany; Jonas Braasch, Jens Blauert, Ruhr-University, regional, and international levels will be summarized. Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Friday, SESSION B: October 10 Enhance your education and expand LOUDSPEAKERS, PART 1 2:00 PM— 4:00 PM your networking opportunities as a Chair: Juha Backman, Nokia Mobile Phones, Espoo, Finland; HUT, Espoo, Finland 115th Convention Student Volunteer. B-1: An Acoustical Measurement Method for the Derivation of For more details and to participate, Loudspeaker Parameters—Brian E. Anderson, Timothy W. please visit the AES website at Leishman, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA B-2: The Active Pulse-Modulated Transducer (APT)—A Novel Audio www.aes.org or contact us at Power Conversion System Architecture—Karsten Nielsen, Lars [email protected] Michael Fenger, Bang & Olufsen ICEpower a/s, Copenhagen, Denmark 9 TECHNICAL PAPERS (continued)

Friday, B-3: Implementation of a Wide-Bandwidth, Digitally Steered SESSION Z3: October 10 Array—Nathan Butler, David Gunness, Eastern Acoustic Works, Inc., POSTERS: LOUDSPEAKERS 3:30 PM— Whitinsville, MA, USA Z3-1: Adjusting A Loudspeaker to Its Acoustic Environment— 5:00 PM B-4: Low-Frequency Polar Pattern Control for Improved In- The ABC System—Jan Abildgaard Pedersen, Bang & Olufsen a/s, Room Response—Juha Backman, Nokia Mobile Phones, Espoo, Struer, Denmark Finland; Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland Z3-2: Lamps for Loudspeaker Protection—Scott Dorsey, Kludge Audio, Williamsburg, VA, USA Friday, Z3-3: Hey Kid! Wanna Build a Loudspeaker? The First One’s October 10 SESSION C: Free—Steven Garrett, Penn State University, State College, PA, USA; 2:00 PM— LOW BIT-RATE AUDIO CODING John F. Heake, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA 4:30 PM Chair: Jurgen Herre, Fraunhofer IIS AEMT, Erlangen, Z3-4: Loose Particle Detection in Loudspeakers—Pascal Brunet, Germany Listen, Inc., Boston, MA, USA; Evan Chakroff, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA; Steve Temme, Listen, Inc., Boston, MA, USA C-1: Scalable Perceptual and Lossless Audio Coding Based on Z3-5: Radiation of Sound by a Baffled DML-Panel Near a Porous MPEG-4 AAC—Ralf Geiger, Gerald Schuller, Fraunhofer IIS AEMT, Layer—Elena Prokofieva, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK Ilmenau, Germany; Jürgen Herre, Ralph Sperschneider, Fraunhofer IIS AEMT, Erlangen, Germany; Thomas Sporer, Fraunhofer IIS AEMT, Z3-6: Practical Application of Linear Phase Crossovers with Ilmenau, Germany Transition Bands Approaching a Brick Wall Response for Optimal Loudspeaker Frequency, Impulse, and Polar C-2: Robust MPEG Advanced Audio Coding Over Wireless Response—Justin Baird, David McGrath, Lake Technology, Sydney, Channels—T. H. Yeo, National University of Singapore, Singapore; New South Wales, Australia W. C. Wong, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Dong-Yan Huang, Institute for Z3-7: Practical Benefits and Limitations of Digitally Steered Infocomm Research, Singapore Arrays—William Hoy, David Gunness, Eastern Acoustic Works, Inc., Whitinsville, MA, USA C-3: MP3 in MPEG-4—Bernhard Grill, Harald Gernhardt, Michael Härtl, Johannes Hilpert, Manfred Lutzky, Martin Weishart, Fraunhofer IIS, Z3-8: The Development of a Forward Radiating Compression Erlangen, Germany Driver by the Application of Acoustic, Magnetic, and Thermal Finite Element Methods—Mark Dodd, Celestion International Ltd. C-4: A Closer Look into MPEG-4 High Efficiency AAC—Martin Ipswich, Suffolk, UK Wolters, Coding Technologies, Nürnberg, Germany; Kristofer Kjörling, Coding Technologies, Stockholm, Sweden; Daniel Homm, Coding Z3-9: Comparison of Direct-Radiator Loudspeaker System Technologies, Nürnberg, Germany; Heiko Purnhagen, Coding Nominal Power Efficiency vs. True Efficiency with High-Bl Technologies, Stockholm, Germany Drivers—D. B. Keele, Jr., Harman/Becker Automotive Systems, Martinsville, IN, USA C-5: MPEG-4 Lossless Coding for High-Definition Audio—Tilman Liebchen, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany Friday, SESSION E: MICROMACHINING October 10 (INVITED PAPERS) Friday, 4:30 PM— October 10 SESSION Z2: Chair: John Strawn, S Systems, Larkspur, CA, USA 5:50 PM POSTERS: NETWORKING 2:00 PM— E-1: MEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems) Audio Devices— 3:30 PM Z2-1: An mLAN Connection Management Server for Web-Based, Dreams and Realities—John J. Neumann, Jr., Carnegie Mellon Multi-User, Audio Device Patching—Jun-ichi Fujimori, Yamaha University. Pittsburg, PA, USA Corporation, Hamamatsu Japan; Richard Foss, Brad Klinkradt, Shaun E-2: Surface-Micromachined MEMS Microphone—Gary W. Elko, Bangay, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Avaya Labs, Basking Ridge, NJ, USA; Flavio Pardo, Daniel Lopez, Z2-2: The Audio File Format for Digital Distribution—Shigeru David Bishop, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Muray Hill, NJ, USA; Aoki, TokyoFM Broadcasting, Tokyo, Japan; Hirokazu Nakashima, Peter Gammel, Agere Systems, Allentown, PA, USA TBS R&C, Tokyo, Japan Saturday, Z2-3: Design Method of Digital Audio Network System for SESSION F: PSYCHOACOUSTICS, October 11 Auditoriums—Masahiro Ikeda, Shinjiro Yamashita, Shinji Kishinaga, PERCEPTION, AND LISTENING 9:00 AM— Fukushi Kawakami, Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, Japan TESTS, PART 1 12:00 NOON Chair: Nantanya Ford, University of Surrey, UK Friday, October 10 SESSION D: F-1: Auditory Perception of Nonlinear Distortion—Theory—Earl R. 4:00 PM— HIGH-RESOLUTION AUDIO Geddes, GedLee LLC, Northville, MI, USA; Lidia W. Lee, GedLee LLC, 6:00 PM Northville, MI, USA; Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, USA (Invited) Chair: Malcom Hawksford, University of Essex, UK F-2: Auditory Perception of Nonlinear Distortion—Lidia W. Lee, D-1: Perceptual Discrimination between Musical Sounds With Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, USA; Earl Geddes, GedLee and Without Very High Frequency Components—Toshiyuki LLC, Northville, MI, USA (Invited) Nishiguchi, Kimio Hamasaki, Masakazu Iwaki, Akio Ando, NHK F-3: The Subjective Loudness of Typical Program Material— Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan Gilbert A. Soulodre, Michel C. Lavoie, Scott G. Norcross, D-2: Parametrically Controlled Noise Shaping in Variable State- Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Step-Back Pseudo-Trellis SDM—Malcolm Hawksford, University F-4: A Calibrated Source for Virtual Audio Prototyping—Kalle of Essex, Colchester, Essex, UK Koivuniemi, Nick Zacharov, Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland D-3: A Universal Interface on Cat-5 Cable for High-Resolution F-5: Augmentation, Application, and Verification of the Multichannel Audio Interconnection—Michael Page, Gary Cook, Peter Generalized Listener Selection Procedure—David Isherwood, Eastty, Eamon Hughes, Mike Smith, Sony Oxford, Eynsham, Oxford, UK Gaëtan Lorho, Ville-Veikko Mattila, Nick Zacharov, Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland D-4: The Effects and Reduction of Common-Mode Noise and Electromagnetic Interference in High-Resolution Digital Audio F-6: Relating Multilingual Semantic Scales to a Common Timbre Transmission Systems—Jon Paul, Scientific Conversion, Inc., Space: Part II—Charith N. W. Giragama, University of Aizu, Aizu-

Novato, CA, USA Wakamatsu, Fukushima-ken, Japan; William L. Martens, McGill SATURDAY 10 TECHNICAL PAPERS (continued)

University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Susanta Herath, St. Cloud I-4: Loudspeakers’ Electric Models for Study of the Efforts in State University, St. Cloud, MN, USA; Dishna R. Wanasinghe, Alam M. Audio Power Amplifiers—Rosalfonso Bortoni, Studio R Electronics, Sabbir, University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima-ken, Japan São Paulo, Brazil; Homero Sette Silva, Selenium Loudspeakers, Nova Santa Rita, Brazil

Saturday, SESSION G: INSTRUMENTATION I-5: Nonlinear Versus Parametric Effects in Compression Drivers— October 11 AND MEASUREMENT Alexander Voishvillo, Cerwinski Labs Inc., Simi Valley, CA, USA 9:00 AM— Chair: John Vanderkooy, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada I-6: Measurement of Equivalent Harmonic Input Distortion— 12:00 NOON Wolfgang Klippel, Klippel GmbH, Dresden, Germany G-1: Objective Measures of Loudness—Gilbert A. Soulodre, Scott G. Norcross, Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Saturday, G-2: Testing for Radio-Frequency Common Impedance Coupling SESSION Z4: POSTERS: October 11 (the "Pin 1 Problem") in Microphones and Other Audio SIGNAL PROCESSING, PART 1 2:00 PM— Equipment—Jim Brown, Audio Systems Group, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA 3:30 PM G-3: A Novel Method of Testing for Susceptibility of Audio Z4-1: On Peak-Detecting and RMS Feedback and Feedforward Equipment to Interference from Medium and High Frequency Compressors—Jonathan Abel, David Berners, Universal Audio, Inc., Radio Transmitters—Jim Brown, Audio Systems Group, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA, USA Chicago, IL, USA Z4-2: Return Loss and Digital Audio—Stephen Lampen, Belden G-4: Directional Room Acoustics Measurement Using Large- Electronics Division, San Francisco, CA, USA Scale Microphone Arrays—Paul Henderson, Rensselaer Z4-3: A Generalization of the Biquadratic Parametric Equalizer— Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA Knud Bank Christensen, TC Electronic A/S, Risskov, Denmark G-5: Intelligent Program Loudness Measurement and Control: What Satisfies Listeners?—Jeffrey C. Riedmiller, Steve Lyman, Z4-4: A Review of Smart Acoustic Volume Controllers for Charles Robinson, Dolby Laboratories, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA Consumer Electronics—Suthikshn Kumar, Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd., Bangalore, India G-6: A Novel Single-Microphone Method of Measuring Acoustical Impedance in a Tube—Robert Stevens, HGC Z4-5: Head Related Transfer Function Refinement Using Engineering, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada; John Vanderkooy, Directional Weighting Function—Sin-lyul Lee, Lae-Hoon Kim, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Koeng-Mo Sung, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Z4-6: A Multibit Delta-Sigma DAC with Mismatch Shaping in Saturday, SESSION H: PSYCHOACOUSTICS, the Feedback Loop—Bruce Duewer, John Melanson, Heling Yi, October 11 PERCEPTION, AND LISTENING Steve Green, Cirrus Logic, Inc., Austin, TX, USA 2:00 PM— TESTS, PART 2 Z4-7: An Efficient Low-Power Audio Amplifier with Power 5:00 PM Chair: Gilbert Soulodre, Communications Research Centre, Supply Rails Tracking the Output by Means of Pulse Width Ottawa, Canada Modulation—Robert Peruzzi, Marvin White, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA; David Rich, Lafeyette College, Easton, PA, USA H-1: Localization in an HRTF-Based Minimum Audible Angle Listening Test on a 2-D Sound Screen for GUIB Applications— Z4-8: A Unified Approach to Low- and High-Frequency György Wersényi, Széchenyi István University, Gyõr, Hungary Bandwidth Extension—Ronald Aarts, Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Erik Larsen, University of Illinois at H-2: On the Twelve Basic Intervals in South Indian Classical Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; Okke Ouweltjes, Philips Music—Arvindh Krishnaswamy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Research Labs, Eindhoven, The Netherlands H-3: A Pointing Technique with Visual Feedback for Sound Source Localization Experiments—Sylvain Choisel, Aalborg Saturday, University, Aalborg, Denmark; Bang & Olufsen A/S, Struer, Denmark; SESSION Z5: POSTERS: October 11 Karin Zimmer, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark SIGNAL PROCESSING, PART 2 4:00 PM— H-4: Difference Limen for Changes in Q Factor for Room 5:30 PM Modes—Bruno Fazenda, Mark Avis, William Davies, University of Z5-1: Embedded Digital Filters for PWM Generators—Alberto Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK Bellini, University of Parma, Parma, Italy H-5: The Effects of Early Decay Time on Auditory Depth in the Z5-2: Further Investigations of Inverse Filtering—Scott G. Virtual Audio Environment—Jungmin Park, Han-gil Moon, Koeng- Norcross, Gilbert A. Soulodre, Michel C. Lavoie, Communications mo Sung, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea; Dae-young Jang, Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejun, Korea Z5-3: Pure Linear Prediction—Albertus den Brinker, Felip Riera- H-6: Creating a Universal Graphical Assessment Language for Palou, Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Describing and Evaluating Spatial Attributes of Reproduced Audio Events—Natanya Ford, Francis Rumsey, University of Surrey, Z5-4: Design of Low-Order Filters for Radiation Synthesis— Surrey, Guildford, UK; Tim Nind, Harman/Becker Automotive Peter Kassakian, David Wessel, University of California, Berkeley, Systems, Bridgend, Wales, UK Berkeley, CA, USA Z5-5: A Numerical Method to Modify the NBR 10303 Filter Saturday, SESSION I: Frequency Response—André Dalcastagnê, Sidnei Noceti Filho, Universidade Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, October 11 LOUDSPEAKERS: PART 2 2:00 PM— Brazil; Homero Sette Silva, Eletrônica Selenium S.A., Nova Santa Chair: Wolfgang Klippel, GmbH, Dresden, Germany Rita, Brazil 4:30 PM I-1: A Virtual Loudspeaker Model to Enable Real-Time Listening Tests Z5-6: Time Delay Spectrometry Processing Using Standard in Examining the Audibility of High-Order Crossover Networks— Hardware Platforms—Wolfgang Ahnert, ADA Acoustic Design Brandon Cochenour, David Rich, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA Ahnert, Berlin, Germany; Stefan Feistel, SDA Software Design Ahnert I-2: Tracking Changes In Linear Loudspeaker Parameters with GmbH, Berlin, Germany; Steven McManus, Gold Line Connector Inc., Current Feedback—Andrew Bright, Nokia Corporation, Helsinki, Finland New Bedford, MA, USA; Waldemar Richert, SDA Software Design Ahnert GmbH, Berlin, Germany I-3: Comparative Analysis of Moving-Coil Loudspeakers Driven by Voltage and Current Sources—Rosalfonso Bortoni, Sidnei Z5-7: Lossless Signal Processing with Complex Mersenne Noceti Filho, Rui Seara, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Transforms—James Angus, Tim Jackson, University of Salford, Florianópolis, Brazil Salford, UK 11 TECHNICAL PAPERS (continued)

Sunday, Sunday, October 12 SESSION J: SESSION M: October 12 9:00 AM— MULTICHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR 2:00 PM— 12:00 NOON Chair: Geoff Martin, Bang & Olfusen, Struer, Denmark AUDIO, PART 2 6:00 PM J-1: An Approach to Miking and Mixing of Music Ensembles Chair: Brett Crockett, Dolby Labs, San Francisco, CA, USA Using Wave Field Synthesis—Clemens Kuhn, Duesseldorf M-1: Diffuse Field Reverberation Modeled as a Flat Fading Conservatory of Music and University of Applied Sciences, Duesseldorf, Channel—Andrew Eloff, Raw Thrills, Inc., Niles, IL, USA; Gary Kendall, Germany; Renato Pellegrini, sonicEmotion AG, Zurich, Switzerland; Dieter Michael Honig, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA Leckschat, Duesseldorf University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf, M-2: Intelligent Class D Amplifier Controller Integrated Circuit Germany; Etienne Corteel, IRCAM, Paris, France as an Ingredient Technology for Multichannel Amplifier Modules J-2: Investigation of Interactions between Recording/Mixing of Greater than 50 Watts/Channel—Steven Harris, Jack Andersen, Parameters and Spatial Subjective Attributes in the Frame of Daniel Chieng, D2Audio Corporation, Austin, TX, USA 5.1 Multichannel—Magali Deschamps, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, Paris, France; Olivier Warusfel, M-3: High Quality Multichannel Time-Scaling and Pitch-Shifting Alexis Baskind, IRCAM, Paris, France Using Auditory Scene Analysis—Brett Crockett, Dolby Laboratories, San Francisco, CA, USA J-3: Some Considerations for High-Resolution Audio—Wieslaw Woszczyk, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada M-4: Adaptive Digital Calibration of Over-Sampled Data J-4: Virtual Acoustic System with a Multichannel Headphone— Converter Systems—Thomas Holm Hansen, Lars Risbo, Texas Ingyu Chun, Philip Nelson, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Instruments Denmark, Copenhagen NV, Denmark; University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen NV, Denmark; Lars Risbo, Texas J-5: Perceptually Motivated Processing for Spatial Audio

SUNDAY Instruments Denmark, Copenhagen NV, Denmark Microphone Arrays—Christoph Reller, Malcolm O. J. Hawksford, University of Essex, Essex, UK M-5: Efficient Algorithms for Look-Ahead Sigma-Delta J-6: Scalable Tri-Play Recording for Stereo, ITU 5.1/6.1 2-D, and Modulators—James Angus, University of Salford, Salford, Greater Periphonic 3-D (with Height) Compatible Surround Sound Manchester, UK Reproduction—Robert (Robin) Miller III, Filmaker Technology, Bethlehem, PA, USA Sunday, SESSION Z6: POSTERS: SOUND October 12 QUALITY AND LISTENING TESTS 4:00 PM— Sunday, SESSION K: Z6-1: Authentic Reproduction of Stereo Sound—A Wiener Filter 5:30 PM October 12 Approach—Sang-Myeong Kim, Kwang-Institute of Science & 9:00 AM— SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR Technology, Gwangju, Korea 12:00 NOON AUDIO, PART 1 Chair: Rob Maher, Montana State University, Bozman, MT, USA Z6-2: Objective Evaluation of Noise Reduction Algorithms in K-1: Dither and Noise Modulation in Sigma Delta Modulators— Speech Applications—Karthikeyan Umapathy, Vijay Parsa, Joshua Reiss, Mark Sandler, Queen Mary, University of London, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada London, UK Z6-3: Directivity Balloons of Real and Artificial Mouth Simulators K-2: Stability Analysis of Limit Cycles in High Order Sigma Delta for Measurement of the Speech Transmission Index—Fabio Modulators—Derk Reefman, Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Bozzoli, Angelo Farina, University of Parma, Parma, Italy Netherlands; Joshua Reiss, Queen Mary, University of London, London, Z6-4: Intrusive Speech Transmission Quality Measurements for UK; Erwin Janssen, Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Low Bit-Rate Coded Audio Signals—Jan Holub, Czech Technical Mark Sandler, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK University, Prague, Czech Republic; Michael D. Street, NATO, The K-3: Compression and Decompression of Wavetable Synthesis Hague, The Netherlands; Radislav Smid, Czech Technical University, Data—Rob Maher, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA Prague, Czech Republic K-4: Reconfigurable Logic for Audio Signal Processing—Helen Z6-5: Automatic Level Alignment for Arbitrary Multichannel Tarn, Chris Dick, Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA, USA Reproduction System—Se-Ung Kim, Sin-Lyul Lee, Lae-Hoon Kim, K-5: Discrete-Time Shelf Filter Design for Analog Modeling— Koeng-Mo Sung, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea David P. Berners, Jonathan S. Abel, Universal Audio, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA, USA Monday, SESSION N: ANALYSIS AND K-6: High-Performance Configurable Fixed-Point Audio October 13 Processor Development—Srikanth Gurrapu, Doug Roberson, Texas SYNTHESIS OF SOUND 9:00AM— Instruments, Inc., Dallas, TX, USA Chair: Oliver Hellmuth, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated 12:00 NOON Circuits IIS, Erlangen, Germany Sunday, SESSION L: ROOM ACOUSTICS N-1: Object-Based 3-D Audio Scene Representation—Dae- October 12 young Jang, Jeongil Seo, Kyeongok Kang, ETRI, Daejeon, Korea; 2:00 PM— Chair: Eddy Bogh Brixen, EBB Consult, Smorum, Denmark Hoe-Kyung Jung, Paichai University, Daejeon, Korea 5:00 PM L-1: Sensitivity of Multichannel Room Equalization to Listener N-2: A Flexible Resynthesis Approach for Quasi-Harmonic Sounds— Position—Sunil Bharitkar, Philip Hilmes, Chris Kyriakakis, University Harvey Thornburg, Randal Leistikow, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA L-2: In-Room Low Frequency Optimization—-Todd Welti, Allan N-3: Objective Prediction of Sound Synthesis Quality—Brahim Devantier, Harman International Industries, Northridge, CA, USA Hamadicharef, Emmanuel Ifeachor, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon, UK L-3: Hybrid Equalization of a Room for a Home Theater System—Lae-Hoon Kim, Jae-Jin Jeon, Sin-lyul Lee, Koeng-Mo N-4: Automatic Classification of Large Musical Instrument Sung, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Databases Using Hierarchical Classifiers with Inertia Ratio Maximization—Geoffroy Peeters, IRCAM, Paris, France L-4: Low Frequency Absorbers—Applications and Comparisons—Dirk Noy, Gabriel Hauser, Walters-Storyk Design N-5: Virtual Analog Synthesis with a Time-Varying Comb Group Europe, Liestal, Switzerland; John Storyk, Walters-Storyk Filter—David Lowenfels, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Design Group, Highland, NY, USA N-6: Using MPEG-7 Audio Fingerprinting in Real-World L-5: Spatial Variation of Reverberant Energy in Enclosures—Erik Applications—Oliver Hellmuth, Eric Allamanche, Fraunhofer Institute Larsen, Albert Feng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for Integrated Circuits IIS, Erlangen, Germany; Markus Cremer, Holger Urbana, IL, USA Grossmann, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, AEMT, L-6: Audio Production in Large Office Environments—Eddy B. Ilmenau, Germany; Jürgen Herre, Thorsten Kastner, Fraunhofer Brixen, EBB-consult, Smorum, Denmark Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Erlangen, Germany MONDAY 12 TECHNICAL PAPERS (continued)

Z7-3: An Extended-Run-Length Coding Tool for Audio Monday, SESSION O: AUTOMOTIVE AUDIO October 13 Compression—Dai Yang, Takehiro Moriya, Akio Jin, Kazunaga 9:00AM— Chair: Richard Stroud, Stroud Audio, Inc., Kokomo, IN Ikeda, NTT Cyber Space Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 10:30 AM Musashino, Japan O-1: Implementation of a Double StereoDipole System on a DSP Board—Experimental Validation and Subjective Evaluation Z7-4: Implementation of Interactive 3-D Audio Using MPEG-4 Inside a Car Cockpit—Christian Varani, Enrico Armelloni, Angelo Multimedia Standards—Jeongil Seo, Gi Yoon Park, Dae-Young Farina, University of Parma, Parma, Italy Jang, Kyeoungok Kang, ETRI, Deajon, Korea O-2: A Development of a Digital Amplifier for Car Use—Kenichi Taura, Z7-5: Error Mitigation of MPEG-4 Audio Packet Communication Masayuki Tsuji, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Kyoto, Japan; Tsuyoshi Systems—Schuyler Quackenbush, Audio Research Labs, Scotch Nakada, Masayuki Ishida, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Hyogo, Japan Plains, NJ, USA; Peter Driessen, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada O-3: Software Radio Receiver for Audio and Video Broadcasting Systems—Maja Sliskovic, Hans-Jürgen Nitzpon, Harman/Becker Z7-6: Combined Source and Perceptual Audio Coding—Aníbal Automotive Systems, Karlsbad, Germany Ferreira, University of Porto/INESC Porto, Porto, Portugal; André Rocha, INESC Porto, Porto, Portugal Monday, Z7-7: Phase Transmission in a Sinusoidal Audio and Speech October 13 SESSION P: ARCHIVING AND Coder—Albertus den Brinker, Andy Gerrits, Rob Sluijter, Philips 2:00 PM— RESTORATION Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 5:00 PM Chair: David Ackerman, Consultant, Boston, MA, USA Z7-8: Objective Estimates of Partial Masking Thresholds for Mobile Terminal Alert Tones—David Isherwood, Ville-Veikko P-1: Subband Adaptive Filtering for Acoustic Noise Reduction— Mattila, Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland Hesu Huang, Chris Kyriakakis, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Monday, P-2: Multi-Frequency Noise Removal Based on Reinforcement SESSION R: October 13 Learning—Ching-Shun Lin, Chris Kyriakakis, University of Southern SOUND REINFORCEMENT California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4:00 PM— Chair: Peter Mapp, Peter Mapp Associates, Colchester, UK 5:30 PM P-3: Music Identification with MPEG-7—Holger Crysandt, Aachen University, Aachen, Germany R-2: A Method of Loudspeaker Directivity Prediction Based on Huygens-Fresnel Principle—Arkady Gloukhov, Consultant, St. P-4: High Frequency Reconstruction by Linear Extrapolation— Petersburg, Russia Chi-Min Liu, Wen-Chieh Lee, Han-Wen Hsu, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan R-3: Some Effects of Equalization on Sound System Intelligibility and Measurement—Peter Mapp, Peter Mapp P-5: Audio Storage and Networking in the Digital Age—Doug Associates, Colchester, UK Perkins, Amnon Sarig, mSoft Inc., Woodland Hills, CA, USA P-6: The Requirement for Standards in Metadata Exchange for Monday, Networked Audio Environments—Nicolas Sincaglia, Listen.com SESSION Z8: October 13 Inc., San Mateo, CA, USA POSTERS: PSYCHOACOUSTICS 4:00 PM— AND CODING, PART 2 5:30 PM Monday, Z8-1: Lossless Compression for Audio Data in the IEEE SESSION Q: SPATIAL AUDIO October 13 Floating-Point Format—Dai Yang, Takehiro Moriya, NTT Cyber Space Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan 1:30 PM— Chair: Gunther Theile, IRT, Munich, Germany 4:00 PM Q-1: An Investigation of Layered Sound—Peter Mapp, Peter Z8-2: Optimum Quantization of Flattened MDCT Coefficients— Mapp Associates, Colchester, UK Aníbal Ferreira, INESC Porto, Porto, Portugal Q-2: Authoring System for Wave Field Synthesis Content Z8-3: Low Frequency Optimization and Nonbass Masking Production—Frank Melchior, Thomas Röder, Sandra Brix, Stefan Effects for Sound Field Recreation—Dai Yang, Takehiro Moriya, Wabnik, Fraunhofer IIS-AEMT, Ilmenau, Germany; Christian Riegel, Graeme Huon, Zeliko Velican, Huonlabs, Victoria, Australia Tonbüro Berlin, Berlin, Germany Z8-4: An Information-Theoretic Model for Audio Watermarking— Q-3: A Sound Localizer Robust to Reverberation—José Vieira, Luís Ruihua Ma, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Almeida, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal Z8-5: Watermark Insertion into MP3 Bitstram Using the Linbits Q-4: Modification of Loudspeaker Generated Direction Cues Characteristics—Seung-Jin Yang, Do-Hyoung Kim, Jae-Ho Chung, Through Assistant Headphones—Banu Gunel, Queen's University Inha University, Incheon, Korea of Belfast, Belfast, UK Z8-6: Perceptual Convolution Algorithm for Reverberation—Wen- Q-5: Spherical Microphone Array for Spatial Sound Recording— Chieh Lee, Chung-Han Yang, Chi-Min Liu, National Chiao Tung Jens Meyer, Tony Agnello, mh acoustics, Summit, NJ, USA University, Taiwan; Jiun-In Guo, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Z8-7: Advances in Trellis-Based SDM Structures—Erwin Monday, Janssen, Derk Reefman, Philips Research, Eindhoven, The SESSION Z7: Netherlands October 13 POSTERS: PSYCHOACOUSTICS 2:00 PM— AND CODING, PART 1 3:30 PM Z7-1: Cascaded Trellis-Based Optimization for MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding—Cheng-Han Yang, Hsueh-Ming Hang, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Z7-2: Implementing MPEG Advanced Audio Coding and Layer-3 Encoders on 32-Bit and 16-Bit Fixed-Point Processors—Marc Gayer, Markus Lohwasser, Manfred Lutzky, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Erlangen, Germany

13 TECHNICAL TOURS

TECHNICAL TOURS provide T6: JUDY AND ARTHUR Sunday, October 12 ZANKEL HALL an opportunity for convention 9:00 AM— Replacing the Cinema and carved from Manhattan bedrock 12:00 NOON attendees to visit some of the under Carnegie Hall resides the beautiful new 644 seat Zankel Hall. The acoustician is AES Fellow Chris Jaffe. Tour resources and facilities in the New of the sound system is by Danny Mei and Paul Garrity of Auerbach theatrical consultants. York Area. Registration is at the Sunday, T7: KAS MUSIC & SOUND AT Convention only and priority is October 12 KAUFMAN ASTORIA STUDIOS 1:00 PM— given to full program participants. While we won’t see the Marx Brothers, Bill Cosby or Woody 4:00 PM Allen, we will see KAS Music & Sound, the resident record- ing studio at this nation’s first multi-stage movie studio. Dating from 1920, Kaufman Astoria Studios boasts 9 sound Friday, stages for film and television production. Be on the lookout October 10 T1: ED SULLIVAN THEATRE— for Kermit and Miss Piggy doing a spot for the Army’s 9:00 AM— UPGRADE TO HIGH DEFINITION Signal Corps. 12:00 NOON Opening its doors in 1929 as a WPA Hammerstein theater, this stage has hosted radio and TV luminaries from Arthur T8: STUDIO OPEN HOUSE— Monday, Godfrey to Jackie Gleason. On the Ed Sullivan Show was October 13 AVATAR & HIT FACTORY 9:00 AM— the first appearance on these shores of the “British AVATAR: Some of the finest acoustic recording space in New 12:00 NOON Invasion”—the Beatles. You’ll see ‘Monitor Beach’ as the York was created in 1977 when Tony Bongiovi transformed a crew discusses the technical considerations involved in the Con Edison power station into a 33,000-sq. ft. multi-room upgrade to High Definition. facility. The four premium studios contain four classic con- soles and a history of over 400 Gold and Platinum albums out Friday, T2: SYNC SOUND October 10 of the thousands of rock & jazz recordings created here. 1:00 PM— RECORDING STUDIO HIT FACTORY: Established in 1975, by Edward Germano, 4:00 PM Sync Sound is a full service, 12 room audio post-production The Hit Factory is one of the premier recording facilities in facility specifically designed to accommodate all aspects of the history of the recording industry. A virtual who’s who of analog and digital sound for pictures. The facility features the recording industry has recorded at The Hit Factory from sound editing and design, ADR, foley, an extensive sound their first major record, Stevie Wonder’s “Songs in the Key effects library, mixing in stereo, surround, 5.1 for DVD, and of Life” to Beyonce’s “Crazy In Love”. This facility houses laybacks to all video formats. seven recording studios, four mastering suites and five pre- production rooms. Saturday, T3: THE HISTORY OF FM & October 11 ALPINE TOWER T9: BROOKLYNPHONO Monday, 9:00 AM— October 13 12:00 NOON Richard Burden and Leonard Kahn will lecture on the histo- PRESSING PLANT—VINYL RULES 1:00 PM— ry of broadcasting as you are whisked to Edwin Howard With ever more demand for vinyl, a new record pressing 4:00 PM Armstrong’s facility. This facility was the first home of FM plant, Brooklynphono, is birthed under the tender care of and the nucleus of the Yankee Network. Thomas Bernica, master of the 120-ton ram. He is ably assisted by international mastering engineer Paul Gold. Saturday, T4: COLUMBIA-PRINCETON October 11 9:00 AM— ELECTRONIC MUSIC CENTER 12:00 NOON The former Acoustics Laboratories of Columbia University Check with the Tour Desk in the houses the world’s first electronic synthesizer, designed by inventor Harry Olson and built by RCA in 1939. It comprises registration area. Space is 10 bays of 524 tubes. Such avant-garde composers as Milton Babit, Luciano Berio, Charles Wuorinen and many limited and fills quickly. There others have composed on this very machine! is a nominal charge for Technical Tours. Saturday, T5: LOEW’S JERSEY THEATER— October 11 1:00 PM— THE MOVIES GAIN A VOICE 4:00 PM In the Loew’s Jersey Theater, one of the few remaining ‘movie palaces’ that were ubiquitous in 1920’s America, resides the only complete Vitaphone sound system—the first sound for movies. Ron Hutchinson of the Vitaphone project will give us a site visit of this historic equipment. 14

EXHIBITORS Exhibitor List as of 8/28/03, listed alphabetically.

A Coleman Audio H N Sonicraft A.D.A.M. Audio GmbH Coles Microphones H.E.A.R.—Hearing Education & Nagra USA, Inc. Sonosax A Designs Coles/AEA Awareness for Rockers National Instruments Sony Electronics, Inc. Aardvark Community Professional Hacousto/Sonic Systems, Inc. Native Instruments gmbh Sony Super Audio CD Loudspeakers ACO Pacific, Inc. Harrison by GLW, Inc. Nemal Electronics Intl., Inc. Sound Construction & Supply Inc. Cooper Sound Systems Acoustic Systems Hear Technologies Netcira by Fostex Sound Devices, LLC Countryman Associates, Inc. Acoustical Solutions, Inc. House Ear Research Institute Networksound, Inc. Sound Ideas Course Technology Adamson Systems Engineering HPV Technologies Neumann/USA Sound on Sound Magazine Crane Song Ltd. ADK Microphones Huge Universe—Formally Live Neutrik USA, Inc. Soundcraft Creative Network Design Sound! International & Prosoundweb AEA NTI—Neutrik Test Instrument Soundelux Microphones Crest Audio AES NY Section Nexo USA Soundfield Research/ Crown International Transamerica Audio Group AES Standards I NHT Pro Cycling '74 SPARS Akai Musical Instrument Corporation Imas Publishing—Audio Media/ Noren Products, Inc. Pro Audio Review SPL Electronics GmbH AKG Acoustics, US Norris-Whitney Communications D Independent Audio SRS Labs, Inc. AKM Semiconductor, Inc. National Systems Contractors D.A.S. Audio Industrial Acoustics Co. Stage Accompany Alcorn McBride, Inc. Association D.W. Fearn Infinium Technologies Ltd Steinberg—The Audio Group of Allen & Heath USA D2Audio Corporation Innova-son Pinnacle Systems Amek O DACS Ltd Innovative Electronic Designs, Inc. STUDER Amphenol Audio OKM Microphones Dan Dugan Sound Design Inter-M Americas, Inc. Studio Network Solutions Analog Devices, Inc. Otari Corporation dbx Pro IZ Technology Corp. Studio Projects Apex N.V. DCS Studio Technologies, Inc. Apogee Electronics, Inc. P Desch Audio GmbH Summit Audio, Inc. Applied Microphone Technology J Parsons Audio— DiGiCo/Soundtracs Center for Audio Studies Sunrise E.& E. Inc. Architectural Acoustics/ JBL Professional Pearl Microphones Swissonic MediaMatrix-Peavey Digidesign Joemeek Pendulum Audio, Inc. Switchcraft, Inc. Arturia Digidesign Development Partners The John Hardy Company Performance Devices ATC/Transamerica Audio Group, Inc. Digigram Josephson Engineering Phoenix Audio T ATI—Audio Technologies, Inc. Disc Makers JRF Magnetic Sciences International/Transamerica Tamura Corporation The ATI Group DK Audio A/S Plitron Manufacturing, Inc. Tannoy North America Inc. ATR Service Co. Dolby Laboratories, Inc. K Plus24 TASCAM Audio Accessories, Inc. Doremi Labs, Inc. Keen Ocean Industrial Ltd. PMC Monitors TC Electronic Inc. Audio Amateur Inc. Dorrough Electronics Kilo International PMI Audio Group Tekserve Corporation Audio Developments DPA Microphones Klein + Hummel North America Post Magazine Telefunken North America, LLC Audio Engineering Associates Drawmer (USA)/Transamerica Audio (Advanstar Communications) Group, Inc. Klippel GmbH TerraSonde Audio History Library Posthorn Recordings Digital Theater Systems, Inc. Testa Communications Audio, Ltd./MacArthur Group Powerphysics DVD Audio Council Texas Instruments Audio Media US L Precision Laboratories THAT Corporation Audio Precision L-Acoustics US PreSonus Audio Electronics E THX Ltd. Audio-Technica U.S., Inc. Lake Technology Limited Prime LED E-mu Systems Toft Audio Designs Audio Technology Magazine LARES Associates Primedia Business Earth Works Audio Products Total Production U.S. Audix Corporation Lavry Engineering Primera Technology Inc. Eastern Acoustic Works, Inc. (formerly dB Technologies) ToteVision Auralex Acoustics Prism Media Products, Inc AUDIO Edirol Corporation Lawson, Inc. Trident Audio Avalon Design, Inc. Proac-Modern Audio Electro—Harmonix Lectrosonics, Inc. True Systems ENGINEERING Aviom, Inc. Professional Audio Design, Inc. Focal Press, An Imprint of Level Control Systems Turbo Sound SOCIETY Elsevier Science Purple Audio, Inc. Lexicon, Inc. B EMM Labs Linn Products Ltd U Bag End Loudspeakers Equi=Tech Corporation Q Listen, Inc. Ultrasone AG Bang & Olufsen ICEpower a/s Euphonix, Inc. QSC Audio Products, Inc. Little Labs Under Cover Belden Electronics Division Quantum Technolgies, Inc. Eventide, Inc. United Entertainment Media Berklee College of Music LiveWire Remote Recorders Ltd. Ex'pression Center for New Media Universal Audio BIAS (Berkley Integrated Audio Logitek Electronic Systems, Inc. R Software) F Lundahl Transformers AB Radial Engineering BLUE Microphones (A Division of CableTek) V Fairlight Blue Sky/Group One Rane Corporation Videotek Film-Tek & Associates, Inc. M Boston Skyline Studio, LLC RealTraps Vintech Audio Five Towns College M-Audio Inc. Brainstorm Electronics, Inc. The Recording Studio Insurance Virtual Mixing Company Focal America Mackie Designs Brauner Program Voyager Sound Inc. Fostex America Magtrax Broadcast—Traffic Concepts, Inc. Redco Audio, Inc. 60 East 42nd St. Francis Manzella Design Ltd. Manifold Labs Brother International Corporation Renkus-Heinz, Inc. W New York, NY Fraunhofer Institut Fuer Manley Laboratories, Inc. Resolution (S2 Publications Ltd.) Wacom Technology Bruel & Kjaer North America Integrierte Schaltungen 10165, USA Marian Digital Audio Electronics Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG Walters-Storyk Design Group Bryston Ltd. Friend-Chip Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) Roland Corporation Wave Distribution BSS Audio Front of House Magazine Tel.: Martin Audio Royer Labs Wave Arts, Inc. BTX Furman Sound MC2 Audio Ltd./Group One Wave Mechanics (212) 661-8528 Future Media Concepts, Inc. McCauley Sound, Inc. S Wavefront Semiconductor or C FXpansion Audio UK Ltd. Cable Factory Audio Underground/ Sabine, Inc. Waves, Inc. (800) 541-7299 Mercenary Edition Lounge CAD Professional Microphones Sabra-som Ltd. (K-IV Enterprises) Westlake Audio (North America G Mercury Recording Equipment Co. Cadac Electronics Ltd. SADIE UK Whirlwind G.R.A.S. Sound + Vibration Merging Technologies except NY) SAE Institute of Technology Wireworks Corporation Cakewalk Gefen Systems Metric Halo Distribution, Inc. Sam Ash Professional Audio Group Wohler Technologies, Inc. Calrec Audio Ltd. Genelec Fax: Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc. Sanken Microphones CB Electronics Geoffrey Daking & Co., Inc. Mia Press Schoeps Mikrofone X (212) 682-0477 Cedar Audio Limited Gepco International, Inc. Millennia Media, Inc. SE Electronics X-Vision Audio US Ltd. Celestion/Group One Ltd. Gibson Labs Mix SEK'D Xilica Audio Design e-mail: Chandler Limited Glyph Technologies Mixed Logic Studio Electronics Seltron Components Ltd. XTA Electronics/Group One Ltd. [email protected] Cherry Lane Magazines, LLC— GML, LLC Home Recording Magazine Modulation Sciences Sennheiser Electronics Corp. Gold Line/TEF Chevin Research Mogami Cables Seven Woods Audio, Inc. Y Gordon Instruments Web: Production Media mSoft Inc. Shep Associates Ltd. Yamaha Corporation of America (Church Production Magazine) Grace Design www.aes.org The Museum of Sound Recording Shure Incorporated Yamaha mLAN Licensing Office Cirrus Logic Inc. Great River Electronics Inc. Music And More (MAM) Signex Clarion Musical Instument Insurance Griffin Audio Design Music Maker Publications— SLS Loudspeakers Z CM Labs Groove Tubes Recording Magazine Solid State Logic Z-Systems, Inc. Coding Technologies Group One Ltd. 16 MXL Microphones Sommer Cable Zaxcom Audio