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Preliminary Program Preliminary Message from the Co-Chairs 109th Audio Engineering e welcome you to the 109th Convention of the Audio WEngineering Society, where we Society Convention will indeed be “Surrounded By Sound” for four days in Los Angeles. The art of science in September 22-25, 2000 surround and multi-channel audio production are at the heart of this year’s dynamic Los Angeles Convention Center program, assembled through the efforts of a dedicated Convention Committee. The 109th Convention has been developed he 109th Audio Engineering Society Conven- Meetings Held in Conjunction with a commitment to educational training tion—with the largest exhibition of profes- with the 109th Convention and tutorial presentations. Featured will be a T sional audio technology in the world—is taking Annual AES Business Meeting: wide array of technical papers, workshops, place at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This educational, special events and a full preliminary program is designed to help you plan Friday, September 22, at 8:30 am, open to all AES schedule of technical tours to several facilities your trip to the 109th AES Convention, September 22- members in good standing. located in the Los Angeles area, where we 25, 2000. Technical Committee Meetings: will have the opportunity to see the heart of Advance Registration Coordinated by the AES Technical Council, the the audio industry in action. This year’s technical committees track trends in audio in order to convention promises to include the most Advance registration for the complete program and exhibits is highly recommended and offered at a recommend to the Society special papers sessions, comprehensive exhibition reduced registration fee. To register in advance, standards, projects, publications and awards in their to date. please complete the enclosed form and fax or mail to fields. The TC meetings are open to all convention The opening ceremonies, headlined by the address indicated or register online at registrants and a meeting schedule will be available at keynote speaker, Herbie Hancock, will offer www.aes.org, where a secure server makes registra- www.aes.org (Technical Council). the opportunity to recognize and salute the tion and payment by credit card easy. The latest news Standards Committee Meetings: recipients of this year’s AES Awards for and updated schedules can also be found at the AES outstanding contributions to the Society and web site. Audio Engineering Society Standards Committee meetings, subcommittee meetings and working groups the audio industry. The Airmen of Note, jazz are open to the public. The working group meetings ensemble of the Air Force, will Please note: The deadline for advance registration begin two days before the opening of the Convention. also perform. is September 15, 2000. In order for confirmation and badges to be sent to you in the mail, the A list of meetings appears in the July/August issue of The traditional AES Convention Party will be deadline is September 1. the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. The time held at the Autry Museum of Western and places of the meetings are updated regularly on the Heritage, offering the opportunity to learn AESSC web page. At the Convention about and experience Hollywood’s western Historical Committee Meeting: heritage and the influence of the “cowboy The on-site Registration Desk will be located in the western” film on the entertainment industry. South Lobby of the Los Angeles Convention Center. The AES Historical Committee meeting will take place Registration hours are listed on the convention on Sunday, September 24, at 1:00 pm, and is open to Among the cultural and special events will be calendar enclosed in this program. Cash or credit all attendees with badges. an organ concert by , “An cards (Amex/MasterCard/Visa) may be used for on- A list of meetings appears in the 2000 July/August Afternoon With ” and a site registration. issue of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. Platinum Artist/Producer Series. Additionally, meetings of the active committees of the AES CONVENTION INFORMATION will continue the heritage of leadership in Exhibit Hours SPECIAL EVENTS research, applications and standards for the Friday, September 22 Noon – 6:00 pm audio industry. Saturday, September 23 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Friday, Special Events except the The modern and spacious Los Angeles Sunday, September 24 10:00 am – 6:00 pm September 22, Convention Center is a perfect venue for ease AES Party are free of charge Monday, September 25 10:00 am – 4:00 pm 11:00 am of access and professional presentation. and open to all registered A list of participating exhibitors to date can be found Opening attendees. A variety of events Located in one of the major world centers of Ceremonies audio production for film, broadcast, on the back cover. covering a broad range of and Awards interests are planned to manufacturing and communications, the city Air Travel to Los Angeles Presentations encourage all attendees, from of Los Angeles will provide an exemplary and Hotel Accommodations backdrop for this convention of audio Each year the AES students to seasoned In cooperation with American Airlines, the AES has acknowledges the engineers. th professionals, to participate. arranged exclusive Meeting Saver Fares to the 109 work of the It is our greatest wish that you will find the Convention. To take advantage of these special fares, individuals whose outstanding contributions to the offerings of this international convention to be call 1-800-433-1790 and ask for Star File# 4690UX. Society in the areas of research, scholarship and informative, challenging and entertaining. By A number of hotel rooms in Los Angeles have been publication enhance our industry. The 109th Convention joining your colleagues at the 109th reserved for convention attendees at special meeting Opening Ceremonies will include the AES Awards Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, rates. For more information on the locations Presentation, a keynote address by Grammy® winning you are assured that you will meet and available, see the separate form and enclosed map. modern music pioneer, Herbie Hancock and a participate in a timely exchange with the Please use this housing form to book your hotel. It is performance of Glen Miller favorites by the Airmen of leading professionals in this dynamic industry. highly recommended that this be done as early as Note, the premier jazz ensemble of the United States possible. Air Force. All attendees with badges are invited to A complimentary roundtrip shuttle bus service will be attend this exciting event. Please join us in acknowl- Sincerely, provided between most of the official AES 109th edging the work of those whose dedication and Roy Pritts and Ron Streicher, Convention hotels and Los Angeles Convention Center. tremendous efforts have significantly contributed to the Convention Co-chairs advancement of the audio industry. SPECIAL EVENTS

Keynote Address: The 109th AES Convention welcomes legendary jazz to the visual entertainment media such as film and, more recently, video musician and composer Herbie Hancock. The Grammy® and Oscar® productions. This Special Event Workshop will focus on the production of award-winning jazz icon recorded his first solo album, Takin’ Off, and live surround sound events. A panel of industry experts will discuss how they Top 10 hit, “Watermelon Man” in 1963 for Blue Note Records. Over produce audio programming for live television, theater and concert events, the next several years, he worked with a number of visionary artists where there is no chance to do a re-take. including the legendary Miles Davis. His innovative 1973 Headhunt- ers album pioneered a sound that would be coined ‘fusion’—a Friday, September 22, 2:30 pm melting pot of funk and rock with jazz—and marked the first time he AES31-3-1999 File Interchange Format recorded with a synthesizer. This platinum recording became the Chair: Mark Yonge, Solid State Logic, Begbroke, Oxford, UK largest-selling jazz album in history. In 1983, Hancock released The ability to move digital audio projects easily and reliably from one Future Shock, a pioneer electronic piece featuring the Grammy- computer system to another is crucial for the development of professional audio winning single, “Rockit.” Hancock accepted his seventh Grammy in in all fields, but has previously been elusive. In December 1999, AES standard 1998 for “Gershwin’s World.” AES31-3-1999 was published to provide an open format for interchanging audio file and edit data, compatible with multiple computer platforms. At this Platinum Record Artists special event, manufacturers will present AES31 interchange solutions and and Producers Series experts will be on hand to answer questions on its implementation. This series features an exploration of the relationship between the artist Friday, September 22, 7:30 pm and producer with panels including Dave Alvin and Al Schmitt, and AES Wild West Party American and British platinum producers who will discuss their various at Autry Museum of Western Heritage techniques and will share anecdotes on the making of some of their Get ready to step back in time to a bygone era at the Autry Museum of chart-topping hits. Western Heritage, where we will enjoy an extraordinary reception of spectacular food and cocktails in a unique Western atmosphere that celebrates Friday, September 22, 12:30 pm both the historical and mythical Old West. In a career that spanned 60 years of Beyond the Board: Mysteries of the the entertainment industry, “America ’s Favorite Singing Cowboy,” Gene Artist-Producer Relationship Autry, was unsurpassed as an image-maker of the American West. Earning five Moderator: Robert L. Doerschuk, Harmony Central, Palo Alto, CA, stars on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame for radio, records, film, television and live USA theatrical performance, Autry was part of a group of singing cowboys whose There is more to recording than gear or, even, talent. The final music shaped American entertainment and became a fundamental element of ingredient involves building trust and a creative rhythm between the the American experience. Join us as we celebrate the Spirit of the West and artist and the producer. We’ll explore this topic with Blasters co- take advantage of an exclusive viewing of the museum’s galleries, included in founder, solo artist, and producer Dave Alvin, along with one of the the ticket price. many associates who have worked with him on landmark projects. Saturday, September 23, 3:00 pm Saturday, September 23, 12:30 pm Successful Women in Audio Panel Discussion Platinum Producers Panel Chair: Cosette Collier, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, USA Moderator: Paul Verna, Independent Producer/Engineer and Pro Audio Journalist, New York, NY, USA In recognition of the first Women in Audio session held 20 years ago at the AES 66thConvention in Los Angeles, and to celebrate the completion of Women Panelists: Al Schmitt (honoree), Ed Cherney, Tommy LiPuma, George in Audio: Project 2000, this panel will include some of today’s top women in Massenburg, Phil Ramone, Elliott Scheiner audio who will address the current issues that women in the industry face. Focusing on the career of Al Schmitt, renowned producer/engineer whose credits include music icons Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Sam Saturday, September 23, 3:00 pm Cooke, Frank Sinatra and Steely Dan, this panel will discuss the “An Afternoon with . . . Sidney Harman” technical and musical challenges of producing platinum projects. A Moderator: George Peterson, Mix Magazine, Emeryville, CA, USA special guest appearance by one of Mr. Schmitt’s platinum artists will Founder of Harman-Kardon, Inc. and a pioneer of the high-fidelity industry, also be featured. Dr. Sidney Harman will participate in an interactive discussion with the Sunday, September 24, 12:30 pm audience, which will focus on his career as an innovator of audio products. Behind the Glass: Platinum Producers Saturday, September 23, 6:30 pm Moderator: Howard Massey, EQ Magazine and Surround Professional Multichannel Audio Over the Internet2: Magazine, Port Washington, NY, USA The McGill to USC Demonstration Panelists: Jack Douglas, Geoff Emerick, Eddie Kramer, George Chairs: Chris Cain, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Massenburg, Alan Parsons USA; Jeremy Cooperstock and Wieslaw Woszczyk, McGill University, How do you make a hit record? “Behind The Glass: Platinum Montreal, Canada; USC School of Cinema/TV Producers” will present an all-star cast of top American and British This demonstration presents the Internet transmission of multichannel producers who will compare and contrast their working techniques music in high-resolution 24bit/96kHz PCM and MPEG AAC with video and will provide real-world anecdotes about the chart-topping hits and spatialization control between McGill University in Montreal, Canada they crafted on both sides of the Atlantic. and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Discussion will focus on technical issues, challenges of latency, quality of service and a review of applications. Bus transportation to the nearby USC Campus and Friday, September 22, 2:30 pm School of Cinema/Television will be provided. Mixing 5.1 Surround Live Saturday, September 23, 8:00 pm Chair: Ron Streicher, Pacific Audio-Visual Enterprises, Monrovia, CA, USA Organ Concert featuring Graham Blyth Multichannel and surround sound have been a part of the audio Continuing the tradition of presenting organ recitals during AES conventions industry’s vocabulary for several decades, primarily as accompaniment since 1993, Graham Blyth, renowned organist and technical director of 3 Continued on page 4 , will perform a recital on the 98-rank Aeolian-Skinner organ at the Pasadena Presbyterian Church. During the recital, Ron Streicher will TECHNICAL COUNCIL conduct a student workshop on live, on-location recording techniques. Sunday, September 24, 9:00 am Sunday, September 24, 6:00 pm SPARS Business Panel: The Care and Feeding of Richard C. Heyser Memorial Lecture and Your Most Important Valuable Resource—Your Reception featuring Dr. Alan C. Kay Employee The Richard C. Heyser Distinguished Lecturer for the 109th AES Moderator: Michael Tarsia, Sigma Sound, Philadelphia, PA, USA Convention is Dr. Alan C. Kay, Disney Fellow and vice president of An elite panel of studio owners and managers will discuss salary basis research and development for the Walt Disney Company. Dr. Kay for studio and audio/video facilities, how to cover non-compete clauses holds a doctorate with distinction for the development of the first in contracts, incentives for employees who expend extra effort to make graphical object-oriented personal computer, and has been elected a your business successful, what to look for when hiring employees and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National how to keep them, and if an employee leaves, how to prevent them from Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Arts and the Computer taking clients. Museum History Center. Dr. Kay will discuss the computer revolution and the developments that promise to ensue with its onset. Sunday, September 24, 3:00 pm The Heyser Series is an endowed lectureship featuring lectures by Grammy® Recording SoundTable at AES eminent individuals with outstanding reputations in audio engineering The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Inc. is proud to and its related fields. The series is featured twice annually, at both the present its 12th Annual Recording SoundTable at the AES Convention United States and European Conventions. Established in May 1999, the in Los Angeles. This year’ s event will feature the creative teams behind Richard C. Heyser Memorial Lecture honors the memory of Richard some of the year’s most successful recordings including Smooth Heyser, a former AES Governor and Silver Medal recipient. A scientist (Santana) and The Return of the Saturn (No Doubt). These teams will at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mr. Heyser was awarded nine patents provide an in-depth look at the process and techniques involved in these in audio and communication techniques and was widely known for his recording projects. The Academy’s presence at AES will also include a ability to clearly present new and complex technical ideas. one-on-one conversation with Glyn Johns, the engineering and producing legend behind the seminal recordings of the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Eagles, Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin. STUDENT PROGRAMS Over the past decade, the Recording SoundTable has brought together panelists of the highest stature from Bruce Swedien to George Massenberg, Al Schmitt to Bob Clearmountain and Roger Nichols to The AES convention provides student members around the world with Tom Lord-Alge. “This year’s program will continue the high standard an opportunity to meet and share experiences related to education in of professional excellence that this series has established, ” said the field of audio. Michael Greene, president/CEO of the Recording Academy. “We are proud to have been partners with AES since the inception of this Friday, September 22, Enhance your education and 1:30 pm series.” expand your networking Student Delegate opportunities as a 109th Monday, September 25, 9:00 am or Assembly 1 Student Volunteer. You’ll Hearing Protection for Music Performance work alongside audio Chair: Justin Davis, and Audio Production Professionals professionals to assist the University of Colorado- Co-chairs: Bob Schulein, Etymotic Research, Elk Grove Village, IL, Convention Committee with Denver Student Section, USA and Ellen Kelly, Center for Speech and Hearing Sciences, Inc., event operations for the Denver, CO, USA East Brunswick, NJ, USA papers, workshops, technical Vice Chair: Marie Ebbing, It’s becoming a topic of ever-increasing concern: musicians and tours, special events and Ball State University Student sound engineers are at risk of hearing loss due to their exposure to education sessions. Section, Muncie, IN, USA high levels of live and amplified music. Loss of hearing acuity can Students and educators are be detrimental to a career in music or audio production. However, Student volunteers will receive invited to participate in a several methods exist that can effectively protect hearing while still a 109th full program pass and discussion of opportunities in allowing the professional uncompromising performance. an official 109th shirt! For more the audio field and issues of The purpose of this Special Event Workshop is to assist music and details and to participate, importance to audio audio production professionals in reducing sound exposure by using please visit AES Web site, education. This opening current technologies. The presentation will familiarize the participants www.aes.org or contact us at meeting of the Student with changes in the auditory system resulting from excessive levels as [email protected] Delegate Assembly will well as the effect that hearing loss has on the ability to monitor and play introduce the candidates for music. Specific emphasis will be placed on the use of various forms of the coming year’s election for hearing protection devices, the use of in-ear monitors and architectural the North/South America Regions. Each AES regional vice president modifications to the listening environment. may present two candidates for the election to be held at the closing meeting of the SDA. Entries for the Recording Competitions and the Continuous Throughout Convention Poster Session events will be collected at this meeting. One entry from “When Vinyl Ruled” Exhibit each AES student section or audio program will be forwarded to the A special working exhibit will literally open a door into the early years of respective judging teams for selection of finalists in each category. For th commercial stereo recording, organized by the AES Historical Committee. instructions and submission forms, see the 109 Website, Student The pro audio scene of the early 1960s didn’t have computers or DAWs, Activities at www.aes.org. and its faders had to fly to keep pace with the agile digits of dedicated Friday, September 22, 3:30 pm studio engineers. Vintage gear will feature a portable console designed by Universal Audio’s Bill Putnam for the United/Western Studios, whose Meet the Textbook Authors remote location recording staff worked under Wally Heider, as well as an Don Puluse, Berklee School of Music, Boston, MA, USA Ampex 300 three-track reel-to-reel tape recorder, and Altec 604 speakers A panel of leading authors of the instructional materials that are for in-your-face monitoring. Oodles of ancillary gear will complete a shaping education in the audio industry will discuss present and future functioning control room environment that will excite nostalgia in some publications. Each author will address the issues in his specialized 4 and wonder in all, at how things were in the days “When Vinyl Ruled.” STUDENT PROGRAMS area, publisher’s expectations and future projects. The audience will be Monday, September 25, 2:00 pm encouraged to participate in a dialogue on content and needs in books, Student Technical Tour articles and training aids available in our industry. A technical tour for students is anticipated. Details will be posted on the Saturday, September 23, 9:30 am 109th Web site, Student Activities at www.aes.org. Student Recording Competition Continuous throughout Convention: Host: Roy Pritts, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO, USA Student Center Finalists selected by an elite panel of judges will give brief descriptions The Student Center is an assembly area for the Student Delegate and play recordings in the Classical and Jazz/Pop categories. One Assembly and students to meet as well as the designated area for many of submission per student section or school is allowed. Meritorious awards the student events. A communications board will be available to post will be presented at the closing Student Delegate Assembly meeting on e-mail and Web site addresses from all participating student members and Sunday. institutions. Saturday, September 23, 1:00 pm Poster Session Education Fair The Student Center will serve as the display area for the showcase of Posters of the scholarly, research and creative works of student AES Institutions offering studies in audio—from short courses to graduate members. One submission per student section or school is permitted. To degrees—will be represented in a “tabletop session.” Information on submit entries, please send an email to: [email protected] each school’s respective programs will be made available through the display of literature and academic guidance sessions with representa- tives. There is no charge for schools to participate and admission is free and open to all convention attendees. To reserve a table and signage for your institution, please send an e-mail request to: WORKSHOPS [email protected] Friday, September 22, 2:00 pm Saturday, September 23, Time TBD W1: Small Room Acoustics (Tutorial) Organ Tutorial/Student Recording Session Chair: Jan Voetmann, DELTA Acoustics and Vibration, Lyngby, Denmark A special student tutorial on location recording will precede the Graham Presenters: Søren Bech; David Griesinger; David Moulton; Jiri Tichy; Blyth organ concert at the Pasadena Presbyterian Church. Ron Streicher Bob Walker of Pacific Audio-Visual Enterprises and 109th Convention Co-chair, will provide students with insight into the techniques of microphone This workshop opens with a tutorial in basic room acoustics followed by placement, acoustics and recording within the church environment. four presentations addressing important issues in small room acoustics. Transportation will be provided. Information on this unique event will be Recent approaches to solving acoustical problems will be shown. The available at the Student Delegate Assembly 1. fundamentals of acoustics will be explored and discussed by a group of internationally respected acousticians. Sunday, September 24, 9:00 am Friday, September 22, 2:00 pm Educators’ Forum Individual W2: Speech Intelligibility of Public Workshop Tickets: Hosts: Roy Pritts, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO, USA; Address/Audio Systems and Don Puluse, Berklee School of Music, Boston, MA, USA Chair: Peter Mapp, Peter Mapp Associates, Colchester, Attendees who are A meeting of the AES Education Committee, teachers, authors, students Essex, UK registered for exhibits and members interested in the issues of primary and continuing education can attend individual of the audio industry. This is an opportunity to discuss the programs of the This workshop focuses on the influence of design and application combined with acoustic character- workshops by paying a Education Committee and to provide input for future projects of the $35 fee at the Committee. istics on the perceived intelligibility of speech. Aspects such as loudspeaker directivity, frequency response and Technical Tour desk. Sunday, September 24, 10:30 am distortion will be discussed, together with the effects of Student Delegate Assembly 2 signal-to-noise and direct-to-reflecting ratios. Methods of measurement and prediction will also be presented after an illustrated Chair: Justin Davis, University of Colorado-Denver Student Section, introductory talk presenting current knowledge. The discussion should be Denver, CO, USA helpful to loudspeaker manufacturers, PA system operators, and sound Vice Chair: Marie Ebbing, Ball State University Student Section, Muncie, reinforcement system designers. IN, USA The closing meeting of the SDA will elect new officers. Votes will be cast Saturday, September 23, 9:00 am by the designated representative from each recognized AES Student W3: Audio Watermarking for Packaged Section in the North/South America Regions. Judges’ comments and and Network Media awards will be presented for the Recording Competitions and Poster Chair: Tony Faulkner, Green Room Productions, London, UK Session. Plans for future student activities at local, regional and Panelists: Karlheinz Brandenburg, M.O.J Hawksford, Paul Jessop, Bob international levels will be summarized. Katz, George Massenburg and Al McPherson Sunday, September 24, 1:30 pm This highly topical presentation on audio watermarking has important Jobs Forum implications for future economic models of music distribution. Watermarking technologies must be simultaneously inaudible to the Host: David Porter, Music Annex, San Francisco, CA, USA listener and traceable through various data compression schemes. An elite panel of representatives of the audio industry will address the Presenters will demonstrate examples of current approaches with issues of entry-level employment and expectations of employers. This practical applications. A lively discussion is anticipated. panel of experts in the audio field will discuss the present state of the job market. Broad aspects of the audio industry will be represented and enthusiastic participation by attendees is anticipated. 5 Continued on page 6 Saturday, September 23, 9:00 am radiator transducer designs do not always meet the needs of every W4: Mastering for the Internet application. This workshop will present alternative approaches to putting air in motion and show how these approaches can be applied Chair: Dave Harris, StarMedia Broadband, San Francisco, CA, USA to problematic system issues. What options are available to the Panelists: Bernard Grill; Rick Schwartz; David Wheeler system designer? An eclectic collection of manufacturers and Webcasting, or the streaming of audio and video over the Internet, experimenters will demonstrate transducers that reproduce sound has emerged as a new industry with new opportunities for audio without axial pistonic motion. A listening experience along with a professionals. Just as audio is mastered for traditional delivery brief tutorial explaining each technology and its advantages will be formats such as vinyl, cassette and CD, Internet delivery has its own provided. This workshop offers a unique opportunity to see and hear set of issues. This workshop will cover different methods for these transducers first hand. optimizing audio for a range of streaming codecs. Panelists will represent major tool developers and audio professionals who work Sunday, September 24, 2:00 pm with streaming audio everyday. W9: Perceptual Audio Coders— What to Listen For Saturday, September 23, 3:00 pm Chair: Markus Erne, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, W5: High Resolution Audio Switzerland Chair: Malcolm Hawksford, University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, Low bit-rate audio coding has become a widely used technology UK during recent years. Due to the use of sophisticated signal processing Panelists: Kevin Halverson; Jim Johnston; Siegfried Linkwitz; Vicki techniques exploiting psychoacoustic phenomena, non-transparent Melchior; Mike Story; Bob Stuart; Takeo Yamamoto coding results in artifacts that sound very different from traditional This workshop addresses the key issues of high-resolution audio distortions and are frequently not obvious at all to the untrained acquisition, storage and playback. Examples of high-resolution audio listener. The workshop will present the work of the AES Technical will be presented and panelists will discuss the impact of these Committee on Coding of Audio Signals, which aims at explaining technologies on working methods and final delivery. The workshop different types of coding artifacts and making a collection of such will also set the stage for small listening room demonstrations of sound material available to the public. Attendees should leave with a high-resolution audio, which will be available throughout the better understanding of how to identify and evaluate these artifacts. convention. Sunday, September 24, 3:00 pm Saturday, September 23, 2:00 pm W10: Everything You Ever Wanted to Hear W6: Digital Libraries, Preservation and About (Tutorial) Metadata Chair: Justin Baird, Meyer Sound Laboratories, Berkeley, CA, USA Chair: Elizabeth Cohen, Cohen Acoustical, Los Angeles, CA, USA Invited Panelists: Durand Begault; Wolfgang Klippel; Bob Panelists: Richard Bradshaw; Peggy Bulger; Mike Christel; Werner McCarthy; David McGrath; David Wessel Deutsch; Henry Gladney; Mickey Hart; Steve Lymam The loudspeaker has always played a special role in the ever- Preserving, storing and retrieving audio are increasingly important changing audio industry. For the majority of sound reinforcement parts of asset management. This workshop explores the artistic and applications, loudspeaker systems continue to be the final filter in the technical challenges of storing and retrieving audio programs. audio path. Various solutions for digital audio library management will be All of the improvements in the quality of audio processing are for shown. Topics include the future of optical and magneto-optical naught if the reproduction of the signal is not accurate. How do we media, media longevity, data migration, development of digital insure that the loudspeaker faithfully provides the desired end result? libraries and data management. Workshop participants will discuss This is the subject of our discussion. We will survey the current the magnitude of the digitization challenge, data migration policies, technological trends in loudspeaker processing and design, and find the implementation of digital libraries, and how we find an audio out how these tools help to provide a subjectively transparent object that we are interested in without massive games of bit tag. reproduction of the desired sound field. We will also discuss practical methods for subjective loudspeaker testing. Sunday, September 24, 9:00 am W7: Microphones—How They Work and How to Monday, September 25, 9:00 am Put Them to Work for You (Tutorial) W11: Mastering and Authoring for High Chair: Ron Streicher, Pacific Audio-Video Enterprises, Monrovia, Resolution Audio CA, USA Chair: Garry Margolis, Consultant, Los Angeles, CA, USA Panelists: Wes Dooley; John Eargle; Juergen Wahl DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD, the new high-resolution consumer The focus of this tutorial workshop will be a comprehensive review audio formats, have introduced new challenges for the preparation of of the broad range of factors that determine how microphones work. content for commercial release. Mastering and authoring for these Emphasis will also be given to practical methods for applying these new formats will be explored by a panel of engineers who are complex tools to your recording or sound reinforcement project. involved in the creation of the discs. Among the topics for discussion are the basic operating principles of microphones as transducers, how to make best use of polar patterns, Monday, September 25, 9:00 am the physical characteristics and limitations of microphones, powering W12: How Many Loudspeaker Channels are systems, and other related pragmatic issues including microphone Enough? mounting hardware, cables, windscreens, etc. The workshop will Chair: Chris Cain, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, include numerous practical examples and demonstrations. CA, USA Sunday, September 24, 9:00 am Panelists: David Griesinger, Tomlinson Holman W8: System Problem Solving with Alternative The increasing data rates and capabilities of delivery systems Transducers enable the audio designer more options when it comes to how the audio budget is distributed. There are differing opinions on the Chair: John Stewart, Harman Motive, Inc., Martinsville, IN, USA necessity and feasibility of the number of channels and relative Panelists: Thomas Danley; Neil Harris; Klaus Heinz; Tony Hooley; positions of loudspeakers which are required to accurately Roger Sanders; Bruce Thigpen reproduce a naturally occurring soundfield. This workshop will The form factor and performance characteristics of common direct bring together the leaders in the field of soundfield reproduction to 6 explore and demonstrate the possibilities. This is an open forum for comments on the future of sound reproduction. Monday, September 25, 2:00 pm W13: Auditory-Visual Interaction Co-chairs: Durand Begault, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA; Armin Kohlrausch, Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Panelists: Myra van Esch-Bussemakers, Armin Kohlrausc, Dominique Massaro, Russell Storms, Elizabeth Wenzel An understanding of image, sound and movement perception is vital for the successful design and application of audio/visual systems. Examples include multimedia entertainment, gaming, soundscape analysis, teleconfer- encing, virtual reality and user-system interaction. This workshop brings together professionals from the research and professional application communities who will define relevant areas and methodologies and discuss the significant issues of audio/visual interaction. The emphasis will be on differences and commonalities arising between questions of different application contexts. The audience will be encouraged to interact with the panel in a question and answer session.

TECHNICAL PAPERS

Friday, September 22—9:00 am Iisalmi, Finland; and Jan Abildgaard SESSION A: DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING, PART 1 Pedersen, Bang & Olufsen a/s, Struer, Please note: Denmark The final presentation order of Chair: John Strawn, S Systems Inc., Larkspur, CA, USA Analysis and Simulation of Analogue papers may vary slightly from the Object-Based Sound Source Modeling for Musical Signals—Tero Dynamic Compressors and Limiters preliminary schedule. Tolonen, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland in the Digital Domain—Michael J. Block Floating-Point FIR Filters Using a Fixed-Point Multiplier— Kemp, Sintefex Audio Lda., S. Marcos da Serra, Portugal Duane K. Wise, Consultant, Boulder, CO, USA Towards the Automatic Generation of Sound Synthesis Techniques: Advanced Watermarking and Its Applications—Christian Neubauer Preparatory Steps—Ricardo A. Garcia, Massachusetts Institute of and Jürgen Herre, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Erlangen, Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Germany The Modeling and Synthesis of Musical Signals with PRISM—Mark Speeding Up HILN—MPEG-4 Parametric Audio Encoding with Phillips, Jeff Barish, and Rob Maher, 3Com Corporation/U.S. Robotics Reduced Complexity—Heiko Purnhagen, Nikolaus Meine, and Bernd Corporation, Boulder, CO, USA Edler, University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany Why Professional 1-Bit Sigma-Delta Conversion is a Bad Idea— Energy Compaction Property of the MDCT in Comparison with Stanley P. Lipshitz and John Vanderkooy, University of Waterloo, Other Transforms—Ye Wang and Miikka Vilermo, Nokia Research Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Center, Tampere, Finland; and Leonid Yaroslavsky, Tel Aviv University, Stereo Acoustic Echo Cancellation for Sound Spatialisation Using Ramat Aviv, Israel Pair-Wise Loudspeakers with Cross-Talk Cancellation—Godwin L. Friday, September 22—9:30 am Bainbridge, Malcolm O. J. Hawksford, and Peter J. Hughes, University of SESSION B: MICROPHONES Essex, Colchester, Essex, UK (Poster) Chair: David Josephson, Josephson Engineering, San Jose, CA, USA A 117-dB D-Range Current-Mode Multi-Bit Audio DAC for PCM and DSD Audio Playback—Shige Nakao, Hitoshi Terasawa, Fumitaka Add-On Microflown for a High-End Pressure-Gradient Micro- Aoyagi, Norio Terada, and Toshi Hamasaki, Burr-Brown Japan Ltd., phone—H.-E. de Bree, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Kanagawa, Japan (Poster) The Influence of Viscothermal Effects on Calibration Measurements An Asynchronous Sample-Rate Converter with 120-dB THD+N in a Tube—J. W. van Honschoten, H-E. de Bree, F. J. M. van Eerden, and Supporting Sample Rates up to 192 kHz—Kevin James McLaughlin G. J. M. Krijnen, MESA Research Institute, University of Twente, and Robert Adams, Analog Devices, Wilmington, MA, USA (Poster) Enschede, The Netherlands Unique Directional Properties of Dual-Diaphragm Microphones— Friday, September 22—2:00 pm Guy Torio and Jeff Segota, Shure Incorporated, Evanston, IL, USA D: ANALOG SIGNAL PROCESSING A Display Technique for Evaluating the Disturbance of Microphone Chair: John Vanderkooy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Response Patterns—Chris Woolf and Oliver Prudden, Rycote Micro- Current-Steering Transimpedance Amplifiers for High-Resolution phone Windshields Ltd., Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK (Invited) Digital-to-Analogue Converters—Malcolm O. J. Hawksford, University Friday, September 22—2:00 pm of Essex, Colchester, Essex, UK SESSION C: DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING, PART 2 Integral Noise Shaping for Quantization of Pulse-Width Modula- tion—Pallab Midya and Matt Miller, Motorola Labs, Schaumburg, IL, Chair: John Strawn, S-Systems, Larkspur, CA, USA USA; and Mark Sandler, King’s College London, Strand, London, UK Virtual Loudspeaker Rendering for Multiple Listeners—Jong-Soong Prediction Correction Algorithm for Natural Pulse-Width Modula- Lim and Chris Kyriakakis, University of Southern California, Los tion—Pallab Midya, Bill Roeckner, Pat Rakers, and Poojan Wagh, Angeles, CA, USA Motorola Labs, Schaumburg, IL, USA A Method for Orthogonal Amplitude and Processing of A Hybridized, High Performance, Compact PWM Amplifier for Subjective Listening Test Material—Aki Mäkivirta, Genelec OY, Audio—Mark Takita, Nikon Research Corporation of America, Belmont, CA, USA 7 Continued on page 8 Optimized Modulation Scheme Eliminates Output Filter—Michael Vibration Behaviour of Single-Suspension Electrodynamic Loud- Score and Donald Dapkus, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, USA speakers—Andrew Bright, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland; and A Novel Audio Power Amplifer Topology with High Efficiency and Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark State-of-the-Art Performance—Thomas Frederiksen, Henrik Horn’s Directivity Related to the Pressure Distribution at Their Bengtsson, and Karsten Nielsen, Bang & Olufsen PowerHouse a/s, Mouth—Mario Di Cola and Davide Doldi, Politecnico di Milano, Struer, Denmark (Poster) Milan, Italy Computationally Efficient Conversion from Pulse-Code Modulation Measurement and Simulation Results Comparing the Acoustics of to Naturally Sampled Pulse-Width Modulation—César Pascual, Various Direct Radiators in the Presence of a Dominant Specular University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA; and Bill Roeckner, Reflection—Neil Harris, University of Essex, and New Transducers Ltd.; Motorola Labs, Schaumburg, IL, USA (Poster) Vladimir Gontcharov, New Transducers Ltd., Hungtingdon, Cambridgeshire, UK; and Malcolm O. J. Hawksford, University of Essex, Saturday, September 23—9:00 am Colchester, Essex, UK E: LOUDSPEAKERS, PART 1 The Application of Broadband Constant Beamwidth Transducer Co-chairs: Steven Hutt and John Stewart, Harman-Motive Inc., (CBT) Theory to Loudspeaker Arrays—D. B. (Don) Keele, Jr., DBK Martinsville, IN, USA Associates, Niles, MI, USA Quantification of Subwoofer Requirements, Part II: The Influence of Distributed Mode Loudspeaker Resonance Structures—James A. S. Lower System Cut-Off Frequency and Slope and Pass-Band Angus, University of York, York, North Yorkshire, UK (Poster) Amplitude and Group Delay Ripple—Søren Bech, Bang & Olufsen High-Accuracy Wide-Bandwidth Automated Loudspeaker Modeling a/s, Struer, Denmark Using Finite-Element Analysis—Carlos I. Beltran and Jesse H. Spence, Design of High-Quality Studio Loudspeakers Using Digital Correc- Advanced Acoustics Transducers, Haverhill, MA, USA; and Boston tion Techniques—Ulrich Horbach, Professional Audio AG, Acoustics, Peabody, MA, USA (Poster) Regensdorf, Switzerland A New Approach to Speaker/Room —Kuang-tao Chiao, The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms—The Neil Harris, and Chris Kyriakakis, University of Southern California, Los Stereo Past and the Multichannel Future—Floyd E. Toole, Harman Angeles, CA, USA (Poster) International Industries, Inc., Northridge, CA, USA (Invited Tutorial) Non-Axisymmetric Elliptical Acoustic Waveguides with Very Different o o Saturday, September 23—9:00 am H x V Coverage—Mario Di Cola, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy (Poster) F: PERCEPTION AND PSYCHOACOUSTICS, PART 1 Development of a Piezo-Electric Super Tweeter Suitable for DVD- Chair: Louis Fielder, Dolby Laboratories, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA Audio—Mitsukazu Kuze and Kazue Satoh, Matsushita Electric Industrial Perceptual Study of Decay Parameters in Plucked String Synthesis— Co., Ltd., Kadoma-City, Osaka, Japan (Poster) Tero Tolonen and Hanna Järveläinen, Helsinki University of Technology, Differential-Algebraic Equations Governing Nonlinear Transducer Espoo, Finland Networks—Daniel M. Warren, Knowles Electronics, LLC, Itasca, IL, Elevated Speakers Image Correction Using 3-D Audio Processing— USA (Poster) See-Ee Tan, Yang Jun, Yew-Hin Liew, and Woon-Seng Gan, Nanyang Acoustic Intermodulation Distortion in Loudspeakers—John Technological University, Singapore, Singapore Vanderkooy and Stanley P. Lipshitz, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Power Improvement in Crosstalk Cancellation Using Psychoacoustic Ontario, Canada (Poster) Frequency Masking—Yew-Hin Liew, Jun Yang, See-Ee Tan, and Woon- Seng Gan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore Saturday, September 23—2:00 pm Perceptual Soundfield Reconstruction—James D. Johnston, AT&T H: PERCEPTION AND PSYCHOACOUSTICS, PART 2 Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA; and Yin Hay (Vicky) Lam, Chair: Louis Fielder, Dolby Laboratories, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Multidimensional Perceptual Unfolding of Spatially Processed Speech A Speech-Based Auditory Distance Display—Douglas S. Brungart, Air I: Deriving Stimulus Space Using INDSCAL—William L. Martens, Force Research Laboratory, Human Effectiveness Directorate, WPAFB, University of Aizu, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Japan; and Nick Zacharov, OH, USA University of Aizu, and Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland Magnitude Estimation of Sound Source Speed—Mark A. Ericson, Air Verbal and Non-Verbal Elicitation Techniques in the Subjective Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, WPAFB, OH, USA Assessment of Spatial Sound Reproduction—Russell Mason, Natanya Spatial Acoustic Mode Shapes of the Human Pinna—Yuvi Kahana and Ford, Francis Rumsey, and Bart de Bruyn, University of Surrey, Guildford, Philip A. Nelson, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK Surrey, UK Robustness of Acoustic Crosstalk Cancellation as a Function of Correlation between Emotive, Descriptive and Naturalness Attributes Frequency and Loudspeaker Separation—Felipe Orduña, Universidad in Subjective Data Relating to Spatial Sound Reproduction—Jan Berg, Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico, D.F., Mexico; and Jóse Javier Lulea University of Technology, Pitea, Sweden; and Francis Rumsey, López and Alberto González, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Grao University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK Gandia, Valencia, Spain Aural Exciter and Loudness Maximizer: What’s Psychoacoustic about “Psychoacoustic Processors?”—Josef Chalupper, Technical University of Saturday, September 23—2:00 pm Munich, Munich, Germany G: LOUDSPEAKERS, PART 2 The Influence of Loudspeaker Type on Timbre Perception—Sheila Co-chairs: Steven Hutt and John Stewart, Harman-Motive, Martinsville, Flanagan and Brian C. J. Moore, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, IN, USA Cambridgeshire, UK Loudspeaker Acoustical Field Calculations with Application to Immersive Sound Rendering Using Laser-Based Tracking—Panayiotis Directional Response Measurement—David W. Gunness and Ryan J. G. Georgiou, Athanasios Mouchtaris, Stergios I. Roumeliotis, and Chris Mihelich, Eastern Acoustic Works, Inc., Whitinsville, MA, USA Kyriakakis, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Improved Loudspeaker Array Modeling—Part 2—David W. Gunness Psychoacoustic Models and Non-Linear Human Hearing—David J. M. and William R. Hoy, Eastern Acoustic Works, Inc., Whitinsville, MA, USA Robinson and Malcolm O. J. Hawksford, University of Essex, Colchester, Optimization of Bandpass and Transmission-Line Loudspeakers— Essex, UK Juha Backman, Nokia Mobile Phones, Nokia Group, Finland Perception-Based Room Rendering for Auditory Scenes—Renato S. Pellegrini, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

8 Sunday, September 24—9:00 am WA, USA; and Richard Foss, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South I: ROOM ACOUSTICS Africa Chair: David Schwind, Charles M. Salter & Associates, San Francisco, Controlling Audio Systems with ActiveX Controls over CobraNet and CA, USA Other Ethernet-Based Networks— Stephen R. Macatee and Devin Cook, Rane Corporation, Mukilteo, WA, USA Synthesis of Room Impulse Response Based on the Discrete Wavelet Transform—Henryk Lopacz and Piotr Kleczkowski, Technical Transporting Audio Signals on Category 5 UTP—Stephen H. Lampen, University of Mining and Metallurgy AGH, Cracow, Poland Belden Electronics Division, San Francisco, CA, USA Compound of Objective and Subjective Investigation Aimed at A PC-Based Graphic User Interface and Control Engine for an Audio Acoustical Amelioration of a Playhouse—Hrvoje Domitrovic and Sinisa Processing System—Brent Karley and Teddy Chen, Motorola, Austin, Fajt, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; and Ivan Stamac, Stims doo, TX, USA; and Jayant Datta, Motorola, Fairport, NY, USA Zagreb, Croatia Transport of Context-Based Information in Digital Audio Data— The Effect of Room Acoustics on Subwoofer Performance and Level Natalie Packham and Frank Kurth, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany Setting—Eric Benjamin and Benjamin Gannon, Dolby Laboratories, Inc., Sunday, September 24—2:00 pm San Francisco, CA, USA L : RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION Predictability of a Room Impulse Response—Zihou Meng, Kimihiro Sakagami, and Masayuki Morimoto, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan; Chair: Bob Moses, Digital Harmony Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA, USA and Guoan Bi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore 0 dB FS + Levels in Digital Mastering—Søren H. Nielsen and Thomas Measures to Avoid the Transmissions of Structure-Borne Sound: Lund, TC Electronic A/S, Risskov, Denmark Sound Sources Next to Studios—Wolfgang Teuber and Ernst-Joachim A Novel Noise Suppression Algorithm Using a Very Small Micro- Voelker, IAB Institut fur Akustik und Bauphysik, Oberursel, Germany phone Array—Marc Ihle, Siemens AG, Ulm, Germany; and Kristian Double Wall and Double Floor Constructions for Obtaining the Kroschel and Rainer Riedlinger, Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Permitted Noise Levels in Studios—Tom Langlotz and Ernst-Joachim Germany Voelker, IAB Institut fur Akustik und Bauphysik, Oberursel, Germany The Design of VALDEMAR—An Artificial Head for Binaural Noise Levels of Microphones for High-Quality Recordings—Are Our Recording Purposes—Flemming C hristensen, Clemen Boje Jensen, and Studios Good Enough?—Ernst-Joachim Voelker and Wolfgang Teuber, Henrik Møller, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark IAB Institut fur Akustik und Bauphysik, Oberursel, Germany Prediction-Based Audio Watermark Detection Algorithm—Jong-Won Architectural Acoustic Design of a Sound Effect Studio for Multi- Seok and Jin-Woo Hong, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Channel Recording—Masamichi Otani, Toshio Wakatsuki, Mikihiko Institute, Taejon, Korea Okamoto, Mitsuo Kubo, and Masaki Sawaguchi, NHK (Japan Broadcast- On-the-Fly Multi-Track Mixing—Francois Pachet and Olivier Delerue, ing Corporation), Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris, France Sunday, September 24—9:00 am Monday, September 25—9:00 am J: MULTICHANNEL SOUND M: LOW BIT-RATE CODING, PART 1 Chair: Tom Holman, TMH Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, USA Chair: Jayant Datta, Motorola, North Syracuse, NY, USA An Inter-Channel Redundancy Removal Approach for High-Quality Analysis of Decompressed Audio—The “Inverse Decoder”— Jürgen Multichannel Audio Compression—Dai Yang, Hongmei Ai, Chris Herre and Michael Schug, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Kyriakakis, and C.-C. Jay Kuo, University of Southern California, Los Erlangen, Germany Angeles, CA, USA A Dynamic Embedding Codec for Multiple Generations Compres- Conversion of Two-Channel Stereo for Presentation by Three Frontal sion—Frank Kurth and Viktor Hassenrik, University of Bonn, Bonn, Loudspeakers—Jerry Bauck, Cooper Bauck Corporation, Tempe, AZ, USA Germany Equalization for Central Phantom Images and Dependence on Cyclostationarity-Based Audio Watermarking with Private and Loudspeaker Spacing: Reformatting from Three Loudspeakers to Public Hidden Data—Leandro de C. T. Gomes, Mamadou Mboup, and Two Loudspeakers—Jerry Bauck, Cooper Bauck Corporation, Tempe, Madeleine Bonnet, Université René Descartes (Paris V), Paris, France; AZ, USA (Poster) and Nicolas Moreau, ENST/TSI, Paris, France Multichannel Level Alignment, Part IV: The Correlation between Backward Compatible Enhancement of DTS Multi-Channel Audio Physical Measures and Subjective Level Calibration—Nick Zacharov, Coding That Delivers 96-kHz/24-Bit Audio Quality—Zoran Fejzo, Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland; and Søren Bech, Bang & Stephen Smyth, Keith McDowell, Yu-Li You, and Paul Smith, Digital Olufsen a/s, Struer, Denmark Theater Systems, Inc., Agoura Hills, CA, USA Surround Sound Mixing Using Rotation, Stereo Width, and Distance PESQ—The New ITU Standard for End-to-End Speech Quality Pan Pots—Itai M. Neoran, ks WAVES Ltd., Tel-Aviv, Israel Assessment—Antony W. Rix and Michael P. Hollier, BT Advanced Enhanced Localization in 5.1 Production—Thomas Lund, TC Communications Research, Ipswich, UK; and John G. Beerends and Electronic A/S, Risskov, Denmark Andries P. Hekstra, Royal PTT Nederland NV, Leidschendam, The Netherlands Investigating the Potential of Omnidirectional Mic Arrays in the Reproduction of Surround Sound—Charlie Fox, University of Regina, Evaluating the Perceived Audio Quality (PEAQ) of Internet Audio Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Codecs—Michael Keyhl, OPTICOM GmbH, Erlangen, Germany Interactive Multichannel Sound Reproduction Linked with VRML Monday, September 25—9:00 am Graphics—Setsu Komiyama, Hiroyuki Okubo, Kazuho Ono, and N: INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT Koichiro Hiyama, NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan; and Hiroshi Asayama, Timeware Corporation, Chair: Thomas Kite, Audio Precision, Inc., Beaverton, OR, USA Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan Diagnosis and Remedy of Nonlinearities in Electrodynamical Transducers—Wolfgang Klippel, Klippel GmbH, Dresden, Germany Sunday, September 24—2:00 pm Coherence-Based, Wide-Band, Signal-to-Distortion Ratio versus Total K: NETWORKING AND PC AUDIO Harmonic Distortion of Slightly Non-Linear Audio Systems— Chair: Richard Foss, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa D. Preis and R. Gregg, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA A 1394-Based Architecture for Professional Audio Production—Rob The Accuracy of Loudspeaker Array Sound Field Predictions Using Laubscher and Bob Moses, Digital Harmony Technologies, Inc., Seattle, Low-Resolution 1/3-Octave, 5o Polar Data—Henrik Staffeldt, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark 9 Continued on page 10 Measuring the Head-Related Transfer Functions of an Artificial Error Resilient Source Coding with Variable Length Codes and Its Head with a High-Directional Resolution—Bjarke P. Bovbjerg, Application to MPEG Advanced Audio Coding—Ralph Sperschneider, Flemming Christensen, Pauli Minnaar, and Xiaoping Chen, Aalborg Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Erlangen, Germany University, Aalborg, Denmark Dynamic Allocation of Bits Based on Perceptual Entropy in Percep- Multitone Testing of Sound Systems’ Components—Some Results and tual Audio Coding Systems—Kelvin H. C. Eng and Say Wei Foo, Conclusions—Gene Czerwinski, Alexander Voishvillo, Sergei Alexandrov, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; and Dong-Yan and Alexander Terekhov, Cerwin Vega, Inc., Simi Valley, CA, USA Huang, Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore, Singapore Testing Loudspeakers with Wavelets—Marshall Buck, Optimal Prediction in Scalable Coding of Stereophonic Audio—Ashish Psychotechnology, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, USA; and Audio Precision, Aggarwal, Shankar L. Regunathan, and Kenneth Rose, University of Inc., Beaverton, OR, USA California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA The Development of a Car Sound-Field Measurement System Using Perceptual Audio Coding Using a Time-Varying Linear Pre- and Post- Compact PC—Kazue Satoh, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Filter—Bernd Edler, Christof Faller, and Gerald Schuller, Bell Labs, Kadoma-City, Osaka, Japan; and Toshikazu Chiba, Matsushita Communi- Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, USA cation Industrial Co., Ltd., Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama, Japan (Poster) Analyzing the Performance of Lossless Coding Techniques Used in Modeling and Measurement of Cross-Talk Cancellation Zones for Audio Coders—Matthew A. Watson and Michael Truman, Dolby Small Displacements of the Listener in Transaural Sound Reproduc- Laboratories, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA tion with Different Loudspeaker Arrangements— Jóse Javier López and Alberto González, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Grao Gandia, Monday, September 25—2:00 pm Valencia, Spain; and Felipe Orduña, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de P: AUTOMOTIVE AUDIO Mexico, Mexico, D.F., Mexico (Poster) Chair: Richard Stroud, Delphi Delco Electronics, Kokomo, IN, USA Measuring Acoustic Noise Emitted by Power Transformers—Menno Automotive Audio Design (A Tutorial)—Roger Shively, Harman-Motive, van der Veen, Consultant, Zwolle, The Netherlands; and Francisco de Inc., Martinsville, IN, USA (Tutorial) Leon, Brian Gladstone, and Valeriu Tatu, Plitron Manufacturing Inc., APLODSP, Design of Customizable Audio Processors for Loud- Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Poster) speaker System Compensation by DSP—Alberto Bellini, Angelo Farina, Windnoise Measurement Using Real Wind—Chris Woolf and Oliver and Carlo Morandi, University of Parma, Parma, Italy; and Emanuele Prudden, Rycote Microphone Windshields Ltd., Stroud, Glouchestershire, Ugolotti, Gianfranco Cibelli, and Gino Gobbi, ASK Industries S.p.A., UK (Poster) Reggio Emilia, Italy Monday, September 25—2:00 pm Experimental Validation of Equalizing Filters for Car Cockpits Designed with Warping Techniques—Alberto Bellini and Angelo Farina, O: LOW BIT-RATE CODING, PART 2 University of Parma, Parma, Italy; and Gianfranco Cibelli, Emanuele Chair: Jayant Datta, Motorola, North Syracuse, NY, USA Ugolotti, and Filippo Bruschi, ASK Industries S.p.A., Reggio Emilia, Italy Implementation of MPEG-4 Audio Components on Various Plat- Design of Acoustic Lever Loudspeaker Systems, Part One—Alan S. forms—Bernhard Grill, Stefan Geyersberger, Johannes Hilpert, and Bodo Phillips, Visteon Automotive Systems, Allen Park, MI, USA Teichmann, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Erlangen, Germany TECHNICAL TOURS

Friday, September 22, 10:00 am Saturday, September 23, 9:00 am Technical Tours provide an T1: T4: The Village oportunity for convention attendees On this tour of the Harman International This tour will feature a visit to The Village, a legendary, state-of-the-art to visit some of the resources and recording and scoring facility in West Los Angeles. An integral part of the facilities in the Los Angeles area. facility, we will gain insight into the pioneering design and manufacture of record, film and television scene for more than 30 years, the facility is a Registration for these tours is at the Harman loudspeakers and how they are four-room complex housed within a 30,000 sq. ft., 1920’s era Masonic Convention only and priority is evaluated. Temple and features a wide variety of vintage and modern gear. given to full program participants. Friday, September 22, 1:00 pm Saturday, September 23, 4:00 pm Check with the Tour Desk in the T5: Staples Center registration area. Space is limited T2: House Ear Institute and fills quickly. There is a nominal This special tour will offer a behind-the- Welcome to the newest arena in Los Angeles. Opened in the fall of 1999, charge for Technical Tours. scenes look at the Institute’s laboratories the Staples Center is home to many of the area’s spectacular live events, and an overview of the scientific including the upcoming Democratic National Convention. The arena exploration of the auditory system from features a specially designed $1.5-million facility sound system and 675 the ear canal through the inner ear to the brain. Three brief presentations separate speakers outside of the seating area. on the regeneration of sensory hair cells, the perception of sound and the Sunday, September 24, 9:00 am impact of background noise on speech intelligibility and amplification will also be included. T6: The Village For those of you who couldn’t make the first trip to The Village, a Friday, September 22, 2:00 pm second tour has been scheduled. Please refer to the above description of T3: NBC Tonight Show Studio this tour for details. We are all aware of the promise that high definition television (HDTV) Monday, September 25, 10:00 am and surround sound hold for the future of audio. We are especially pleased to bring you this special tour guided by the engineers who are T7: Whitmor Wirenetics using the latest in HDTV and surround sound technologies for the Located in nearby Valencia, Whitmor Wirenetics is a manufacturer and a production of the NBC “Tonight Show.” distributor of custom and off-the-shelf wire products. This tour is designed to provide insight into how wire and cable are manufactured and to present the various types of cables and their uses.

10 CONVENTION CALENDAR Organ Concert, Organ Graham Blyth AES Wild West Party West AES Wild Autry Museum at the Heritage of Western L E G N D www.aes.org Organ Tutorial Organ Multi-Hi Res Demo at USC for late-breaking convention information. for late-breaking convention Meetings of Standards Working Groups Working Meetings of Standards place and Subcommittes will take The schedule throughout the convention. Web AES for these meetings is on the site: Heyser Lecture: Alan Kay Lecture: Heyser Special Events - Open to all attendees Special Events Sessions Papers Technical Workshops Tours Technical Student Events Council Standards Committees/Technical www.aes.org www.aes.org Student Mixer R E G I S T R A T I O N A T R R E G I S Tour 5 Staples Center Tour Grammy® Recording SoundTable Successful Women Audio in Successful Women W5 High Resolution Audio Resolution W5 High “An Afternoon with . . . Sidney Harman” Afternoon with . Sidney “An Mixing 5.1 Surround Live SC: AES 31-1-1999 O Low Bit Rate Coding #2 O Low Audio (T) Automotive P Interaction Auditory-Visual W13 Student Technical Tour Student Technical K Networking & PC Audio & PC K Networking L Recording & Reproduction G Loudspeakers #2 G Loudspeakers H Perception & Psychoacoustics #2 W9 Perceptual Audio Coders (T)About Loudspeakers W10 Everything C DSP #2 Analog Signal Processing D W1 Acoustics (T) Small Room W2 Audio Speech Intelligibility of PA Tour 3 NBC Tonight Show Studio Show Tonight 3 NBC Tour W6 W6 Metadata Digital Libraries, Preservation, Jobs Forum Student Delegate Assembly 1 Textbook Authors Textbook Assembly 1 Student Delegate Tour 2 House Ear Institute Tour Education Fair Platinum Series 3 Platinum Series 2 Platinum Series 1 E X H I B I T S E X H I B with Herbie Hancock This is a preliminary schedule and may change without notice. Please refer to the AES Web site, Web AES This is a preliminary schedule and may change without notice. Please refer to the Opening Cermonies and Awards Opening Cermonies and Presentations Airmen of Note and USAF Band Please note: E X H I B I T S E X H I B Tour 1 Harman International Tour E X H I B I T S E X H I B E X H I B I T S E X H I B Tour 7 Whitmor Wirenetics Whitmor 7 Tour Student Recording Competition A DSP #1 B Microphones I Room Acoustics I Room J Multichannel Sound W7 (T) Work They Microphones: How W8 System Problem Solving E Loudspeakers #1 (T) E Loudspeakers F Perception & Psychoacoustics #1 W3 Audio Watermarking W3 Audio W4 Mastering for the Internet SPARS Business Panel SPARS Tour 4 The Village Studio Village The 4 Tour Hearing Protection M Low Bit Rate Coding #1 M Low N Instrumentation and Measurement W11 High Resolution Mastering/Authoring Channels are Enough? Speaker Many W12 How Tour 6 The Village Studio Village The 6 Tour Educators’ Forum Student Delegate Assembly 2 Student Delegate Educators’ Forum Bus. Mtg. Standards Committee Meetings Standards Committee Meetings R E G I S T R A T I O N A T R R E G I S R E G I S T R A T I O N A T R R E G I S R E G I S T R A T I O N A T R R E G I S R E G I S T R A T I O N A T R R E G I S 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 NOON 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 EVENING Sunday, 24 September Monday, 25 September Saturday, 23 September Friday, 22 September Thursday, September 21 September Thursday, Wednesday, Sept. 20 Wednesday, 11 (T) = Tutorial (T) = EXHIBITORS

A.D.A.M. Audio GmbH Belden Wire & Cable Dorrough Electronics Kind of Loud Technologies Noren Products, Inc. Soundfield Research / A & G Solvzioni Digitali Company DPA Microphones / TGI Klippel GmbH Norris-Whitney Transamerica Audio Aardvark Benchmark Media Systems, North America Inc. Klotz Digital America, Inc. Communications Group ACO Pacific, Inc. Inc. Drawmer (USA) / KRK Systems, Inc. NXT New Transducers Soundman Acoustic Sciences Berklee College of Music Transamerica Audio Group, KS Audio Ltd. Sounds Logical Corporation Beyerdynamic Inc. Kurzweil Music Systems Opticom Soundscape Digital Acoustic Systems BGW Systems, Inc. DSP Media Cox Audio Engineering / Oram Pro Audio Technology Ltd. Acoustical Solutions, Inc. BitHeadz, Inc. Digital Theater Systems, Inc. L-Acoustics Otari Corporation Soundtracs USA, Inc. Acoustics First Corporation Brainstorm Electronics, Dynaudio Acoustics / Munro Lake DSP Pty Ltd. Pacific Radio Electronics SPARS ADC Inc. 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