129th Audio Engineering Society Convention 2010

Sanxxx Francisco, California, USA 4-7 November 2010

Volume 1 of 2

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VOLUME 1

Dynamic Range Control for Audio Signals Using Fourth-Order Level Estimation...... 1 Qing Yang, John G. Harris

Angular Resolution Requirements for Binaural Room Scanning...... 6 Todd Welti, Xinting Zhang

A Reliable Procedure for Polarity Measurements on Line Arrays...... 14 Gregor Schmidle, Markus Becker

New Techniques for Evaluating Audio via Measuring for Induced Wow and Flutter and Differential Phase Distortions...... 24 Ronald Quan

Coaxial Flat Panel Loudspeaker System with Dynamic Push-Pull Drive ...... 40 Drazenko Sukalo

Automatic Recording Environment Identification Using Acoustic Features...... 48 Usman Amin Chaudhary, Hafiz Malik

A Robust Pseudo-Ternary Modulation Scheme for Filter-less Digital Class D Amplifiers...... 58 Rossella Bassoli, Carlo Crippa, Germano Nicollini

Speech Referenced Limiting: Controlling the Loudness of a Signal with Reference to Its Speech Loudness...... 63 Michael Fisher, Nicky Chong-White, Harvey Dillon

The Non-flat and Continually Changing Response of Multiband Compressors ...... 73 Earl Vickers

Simulating Ensemble Rhythmic Interaction based on Quantifiable Strategy Functions...... 89 Nima Darabi, U. Peter Svensson, Chris Chafe

Parametric Modeling of Human Response to a Sudden Tempo Change ...... 97 Nima Darabi, U. Peter Svensson, Jon Forbord

Physical Modeling and Synthesis of Motor Noise for Replication of a Sound Effects Library ...... 109 Simon Hendry, Josh Reiss

Listening Tests for the Effect of Speaker Directivity and Positioning on Auditory Scene Perception ...... 116 David Clark

A Robust Audio Feature Extraction Algorithm for Music Identification...... 128 Jiajun Wang, Marie-Luce Bourguet

The : Background, Speculation and Recommendations ...... 135 Earl Vickers

On the Use of Ultrasound Transducer Arrays to Account for Time-variance on Room Acoustics Measurements...... 162 Joel Preto Paulo, J.L. Bento Coelho

A Novel Universal-Serial-Bus-Powered Digitally Driven Speaker System with Low Power Dissipation and ...... 169 Hajime Ohtani, Akira Yasuda, Kenzo Tsuihiji, Ryota Suzuki, Daigo Kuniyoshi, Junichi Okamura

Filter Design for a Double Dipole at Panel Loudspeaker System Using Time Domain Toeplitz Equations...... 176 Tobias Corbach, Martin Holters, Udo Zolzer

Measurement of Turbulent Air Noise Distortion in Loudspeaker Systems...... 183 Wolfgang Klippel, Robert Werner

The Contributions of Thomas Edison to Music Education ...... 194 Kevin D. Kelleher

Discrete Driving Functions for Horizontal Reproduction Using Wave Field Synthesis and Higher Order Ambisonics...... 210 Cesar D. Salvador

Comparison Between Spherical Headmodels and HRTFs in Upmixing for Headphone Based Virtual Surround and Stereo Expansion - I...... 224 Sunil Bharitkar, Chris Kyriakakis

The Low Complexity MP3 Multi-channel Audio Decoding System ...... 232 Hyun Wook Kim, Han Gil Moon

Simulating Hearing Loss in Virtual Training ...... 238 Ramy Sadek, David Krum, Mark Bolas

Perceptually Motivated Scoring of Musical Meter Classification Algorithms...... 242 Matthias Varewyck, Jean-Pierre Martens

Stimulus-dependent HRTF preference ...... 248 Agnieszka Roginska, Gregory H. Wakefield, Thomas S. Santoro

Hearing Threshold of Pure Tones and a Fire Alarm Sound for People Listening to Music with Headphones...... 259 Kaori Sato, Shogo Kiryu, Kaoru Ashihara

Estimation of the Probability Density Function of the Interaural Level Differences for Binaural Speech Separation...... 264 David Ayllon, Roberto Gil-Pita, Manuel Rosa-Zurera

Near and Far-field Control of Focused Sound Radiation using A Loudspeaker Array ...... 269 Sangchul Ko, Youngtae Kim, Jung-Woo Choi

Measures and Parameter Estimation of Triodes, for the Real-time Simulation of a Multi-stage Guitar Preamplifier ...... 277 Ivan Cohen, Thomas Helie

Stereo Audio Coding Improved by Phase Parameters ...... 288 Miyoung Kim, Eunmi Oh, Hwan Shim

A Convolution Based System for Virtual Acoustic Support of Performing Musicians...... 294 Wieslaw Woszczyk, Doyuen Ko, Brett Leonard

Neutral-Point Oscillation Control based on a new Audio Space Vector Modulation (A-SVM) for DCI- NPC Power Amplifiers...... 303 V. Sala, L. Romeral, G. Ruiz

A Low Complexity Approach for Loudness Compensation...... 310 Pradeep D. Prasad

Optimising the Controls of a Homogeneous Loudspeaker Array...... 320 Michael Terrell, Mark Sandler

Measuring Dynamics: Comparing and Contrasting Algorithms for the Computation of Dynamic Range ...... 329 Jon Boley, Michael Lester, Christopher Danner

Subjective Listening Tests and Neural Correlates of Speech Degradation in Case of Signal-correlated Noise...... 334 Jan-Niklas Antons, Anne K. Porbadnigk, Robert Schleicher, Benjamin Blankertz, Sebastian Moller, Gabriel Curio

Calculating Time Delays of Multiple Active Sources in Live Sound ...... 338 Alice Clifford, Josh Reiss

Language Scrambling for In-game Voice-chat Applications ...... 346 Nicolas Tsingos, Charles Robinson

A 3-D Sound Creation System Using Horizontally Arranged Loudspeakers ...... 355 Keita Tanno, Akira Saji, Huakang Li, Jie Huang

Parameter Relationships in High-Speed Audio Networks...... 360 Nyasha Chigwamba, Richard Foss, Robby Gurdan, Brad Klinkradt

Towards a Classification of Audiovisual Media Content ...... 378 Ulrich Reiter

Practical Implementation of Perceptual Rub & Buzz Distortion and Experimental Results...... 386 Steve Temme, Pascal Brunet, Brian Fallon

Perceptual Distortion-Rate Optimization of Long Term Prediction in MPEG AAC ...... 395 Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy, Vinay Melkote, Emmanuel Ravelli, Kenneth Rose

An Introduction to AVS Lossless Audio Coding...... 407 Haiyan Shu, Haibin Huang, Ti-Eu Chan, Rongshan Yu, Susanto Rahardja

Methods for Extending Room Impulse Responses Beyond Their Noise Floor ...... 414 Nicholas J. Bryan, Jonathan S. Abel

Loudspeaker Rub Fault Detection by Means of a New Nonstationary Procedure Test...... 421 G. Ruiz, V. Sala, M. Delgado, J.A. Ortega

Real-time Speech Visualization System for Speech Training and Diagnosis...... 428 Yuichi Ueda, Tadashi Sakata, Akira Watanabe

A Digital-Domain Listening Test for High-Resolution ...... 434 John Vanderkooy

Rapid In-Place Measurements of Multi-Channel Venues ...... 443 John Vanderkooy

Coherent Superposition of Acoustic Sources as a Function of Environmental Parameters...... 451 Stefan Feistel, Rainer Feistel

Modelling Viscoelasticity of Loudspeaker Suspensions using Retardation Spectra...... 475 Tobias Ritter, Finn Agerkvist

Voice Samples Recording and Speech Quality Assessment for Forensic and Automatic Speaker Identification...... 486 Andrey Barinov

Subjective Preference of Modal Control in Listening Rooms ...... 496 B. Fazenda, L.A. Elmer, M. Wankling, J.A. Hargreaves, J.M. Hirst

Variance in Level Preference of Balance Engineers: A Study of mixing preference & Variance Over Time ...... 508 Richard King, Brett Leonard, Grzegorz Sikora

Vacuum Tube Amplifiers using Electronic DC Transformers ...... 516 Theeraphat Poomalee, Kamon Jirasereeamornkul, Marian K. Kazimierczuk

The Learning Effect of HRTF Based 3-D Sound Perception with an Horizontally Arranged 8- Loudspeaker System...... 524 Akira Saji, Keita Tanno, Li Huakang, Tetsuya Watanabe, Jie Huang

Psycho-acoustic Measurement and Auditory Brainstem Response in the Frequency Range between 10 kHz and 30 kHz...... 528 Motoi Koubori, Kaoru Ashihara, Mizuki Omata, Masaki Kyoso, Shogo Kiryu

HRTF Measurements With Recorded Reference Signal...... 533 Marko Durkovic, Florian Sagstetter, Klaus Diepold

Ironless Motor Loudspeaker: Quantization of the Subjective Enhanced Sound Quality...... 541 Mathias Remy, Guy Lemarquand, Daniele Ceruti, Gael Guyader, R. Toppi, Marc-Francois Six

A 2-way Loudspeaker Array System with Pseudorandom Spacing for Music Concerts...... 553 Yuki Ayabe, Saburo Nakano, Kaoru Ashihara, Shogo Kiryu

MPEG Spatial Audio Object Coding – The ISO/MPEG Standard for Efficient Coding of Interactive Audio Scenes ...... 557 Oliver Hellmuth, Heiko Purnhagen, Jeroen Koppens, Jurgen Herre, Jonas Engdegard, Johannes Hilpert, Lars Villemoes, Leon Terentiv, Cornelia Falch, Andreas Holzer, Maria Luis Valero, Barbara Resch, Harald Mundt, Hyen-O Oh

A Real Time implementation of a Novel Psychoacoustic Approach for Stereo Acoustic Echo Cancellation...... 576 S. Cecchi, Laura Romoli, Paolo Peretti, F. Piazza

Modeling of Leaky Acoustic Tube for Narrow-angle Directional ...... 586 Kazuho Ono, Takehiro Sugimoto, Akio Ando, Kimio Hamasaki, Takeshi Ishii, Yutaka Chiba, Keishi Imanaga

The Design of Low-complexity Wavelet-based Audio Filter Banks Suitable for Embedded Platforms...... 594 Neil Smyth

The hArtes CarLab: A New Approach to Advanced Algorithms Development for Automotive Audio...... 601 S. Cecchi, A. Primavera, F. Piazza, F. Bettarelli, E. Ciavattini, R. Toppi, J.G.F. Coutinho, W. Luk, C. Pilato, F. Ferrandi, V.M. Sima, K. Bertels

Wide-area Psychoacoustic Correction for Problematic Room Modes Using Non-linear Bass Synthesis ...... 613 Adam J. Hill, Malcolm O.J. Hawksford

Contributions to the Improvement of the Response of a Pleated Loudspeaker ...... 625 J. Martínez, R. Martinez, E. Segovia, J. Carbajo, J. Ramis

A Mixed Mechanical/Digital Approach for Sound Beam Pointing with Loudspeakers Line Array...... 635 Paolo Peretti, S. Cecchi, F. Piazza, Marco Secondini, Andrea Fusco

On the Anti-Aliasing Loudspeaker for Sound Field Synthesis Employing Linear and Circular Distributions of Secondary Sources...... 645 Jens Ahrens, Sascha Spors

Maintaining Sonic Texture with Time Scale Compression by a Factor of 100 or More...... 658 Robert C. Maher

Reducing Artifacts of Focused Sources in Wave Field Synthesis...... 664 Hagen Wierstorf, Matthias Geier, Sascha Spors

Evaluation of Super-Wideband Speech and Audio Codecs...... 674 Ulf Wustenhagen, Bernhard Feiten, Jens Kroll, Alexander Raake, Marcel Waltermann

Surround Sound With Height in Games Using Dolby Pro Logic IIz...... 688 Nicolas Tsingos, Christophe Chabanne, Charles Robinson, Matt McCallus

Acoustical Design of Control Room for Stereo and Multichannel Production and Reproduction, A Novel Approach ...... 699 Bogic Petrovic, Zorica Davidovic

Conversion of Two Closely Spaced Omnidirectional Microphone Signals to an XY Stereo Signal...... 710 Christof Faller

Enhancing Stereo Audio with Capability ...... 720 Hyen-O Oh, Yang-Won Jung, Alexis Favrot, Christof Faller

Automatically Optimizing Situation Awareness and Sound Quality for an Isolating Earphone ...... 728 John Usher

Beyond Coding: Reproduction of Direct and Diffuse Sounds in Multiple Environments ...... 737 James D. Johnston, Jean-Marc Jot, Zoran Fejzo, Steve R. Hastings

The Single Stereo Display Compared to Stereo VU Meters...... 746 Michael D. Callaghan

Analysis of Two-Pole Compensation in Linear Audio Amplifiers...... 750 Harry Dymond, Phil Mellor

Switching/Linear Hybrid Audio Power Amplifiers for Domestic Applications, Part 1: The Class-B•D ...... 761 Harry Dymond, Phil Mellor

VOLUME 2

Shaping Audio Engineering Curriculum: An Expert Panel’s View of The Future...... 783 David Tough

Using Noise Substitution for Backwards-Compatible Audio Codec Improvement...... 795 Colin Raffel

Solo Plucked String Sound Detection by the Energy-to-Spectral Flux Ratio (ESFR)...... 803 Byung Suk Lee, Chang-Heon Lee, Gyuhyeok Jeong, In Gyu Kang

Separation of Repeating and Varying Components in Audio Mixtures...... 807 Sean Coffin

A Reverberator with Two-Stage Decay and Onset Time Controls...... 815 Keun Sup Lee, Jonathan S. Abel

About this Dereverberation Business: A Method for Extracting Reverberation from Audio Signals...... 821 Gilbert A. Soulodre

Stereo Acoustic Echo Cancellation for Telepresence Systems ...... 836 Shreyas Paranjpe, Scott Pennock, Phil Hetherington

Spatial Audio Attention Model Based Surveillance Event Detection ...... 842 Bo Hang, Ruimin Hu, Xiaochen Wang, Weiping Tu

Investigating Perceptual Effects Associated with Vertically Extended Sound Fields Using Virtual Ceiling Speaker...... 851 Yusuke Ono, Sungyoung Kim, Masahiro Ikeda

Comparing Continuous Subjective Loudness Responses and Computational Models of Loudness for Temporally Varying Sounds ...... 857 Sam Ferguson, Densil Cabrera, Emery Schubert

The Influence of Texture and Spatial Quality on the Perceived Quality of Blindly Separated Audio Source Signals ...... 865 Thorsten Kastner

Perceptual Evaluation of Spatial Audio Quality ...... 872 Hwan Shim, Eunmi Oh, Sangchul Ko, Sang Ha Park

Enhancing 3D Audio using Blind Bandwidth Extension ...... 878 Tim Habigt, Marko Durkovic, Martin Rothbucher, Klaus Diepold

Binaural Reproduction of 22.2 Multichannel Sound over Loudspeakers ...... 883 Kentaro Matsui, Akio Ando

Improving the Assessment of Low Frequency Room Acoustics Using Descriptive Analysis...... 889 M. Wankling, B. Fazenda, William J. Davies

Processing and Improving a Head-related Impulse Response Database for Auralization ...... 906 Ben Supper

First Results from a Large-Scale Measurement Program for Home Theaters...... 917 Tomlinson Holman, Ryan Green

Inherent Doppler Properties of Spatial Audio ...... 940 Martin J. Morrell, Josh Reiss

Air Velocity and Pressure Profiles in Front of an Electrodynamic Loudspeaker ...... 953 Danijel Djurek, Ivan Djurek, Antonio Petosic

Effects of Oversampling on SNR Using Swept-Sine Analysis ...... 959 C.L. Bennett, D. Harris, A.S. Tankanow, R.M. Twilley

Volterra Series Based Distortion Effect...... 966 Finn Agerkvist

Underdetermined Binaural 3D Sound Localization Algorithm of Simultaneous Active Sources ...... 973 Martin Rothbucher, David Kronmuller, Hao Shen, Klaus Diepold

Digitally Enhanced Shotgun Microphone with Increased Directivity...... 980 Helmut Wittek, Christof Faller, Christian Langen, Alexis Favrot, Christophe Tournery

Experiment of Sixteen Channel Audio Transmission Over IP Network by MPEG-4 ALS and Audio Rate Oriented Adaptive Bit-rate Video Codec...... 988 Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada, Takehiro Moriya, Sunyong Kim, Masanori Ogawara, Tatsuya Fujii

Frequency Characteristics Measurements of Cylindrical Record Player by the Pulse-Train Method ...... 993 Teruo Muraoka, Takahiro Miura, Tohru Ifukube

Point-source Loudspeaker Reversely-attached Acoustic Horn: Improvement of Acoustic Characteristics and Application to Some Measurements...... 1002 Takahiro Miura, Teruo Muraoka, Tohru Ifukube

Assessing Virtual Teleconferencing Rooms...... 1011 Mansoor Hyder, Michael Haun, Olesja Weidmann, Christian Hoene

Speech Synthesis Controlled by Eye Gazing ...... 1023 A. Czyzewski, K. Lopatka, B. Kunka, R. Rybacki, B. Kostek

Families of Sound Attributes for Assessment of Spatial Audio...... 1032 Sarah Le Bagousse, Mathieu Paquier, Catherine Colomes

Determined Source Separation for Microphone Recordings Using IIR Filters...... 1040 Christian Uhle, Josh Reiss

High Quality Time-domain Pitch Shifting Using PSOLA and Transient Preservation...... 1054 Adrian von dem Knesebeck, Pooya Ziraksaz, Udo Zolzer

Exploring Ultra-directional Acoustic Response of an Electret Cell Array Loudspeaker ...... 1064 Yu-Chi Chen, Wen-Ching Ko, Chang-Ho Liou, Wen-Hsin Hsiao, Chih-Chiang Cheng, Wen-Jong Wu, Pei-Zen Chang, Chih-Kung Lee

MPEG-A Professional Archival Application Format and Its Application for Audio Data Archiving ...... 1073 Noboru Harada, Yutaka Kamamoto, Takehiro Moriya, Masato Otsuka

Subjective Evaluation of Gating Methods for Use With the ITU-R BS.1770 Loudness Algorithm...... 1079 Scott G. Norcross, Michel C. Lavoie

Wireless Multisensor Monitoring of the Florida Everglades: A Pilot Project...... 1089 Colby Leider, Doug Mann, Daniel P. Dickinson

A Binaural Model with Head Motion That Resolves Front-Back Confusions for Analysis of Room Impulse Responses...... 1099 John T. Strong, Jonas Braasch, Ning Xiang

Sound Texture Analysis based on a Dynamical Systems Model and Empirical Mode Decomposition ...... 1111 Doug Van Nort, Jonas Braasch, Pauline Oliveros

Complex Modulation Transfer Function and Its Applications in Transducer and Room Acoustics Measurements...... 1117 Juha Backman

Perceptual Dimensions of Stage-Floor Vibration Experienced During a Musical Performance ...... 1134 Clemeth L. Abercrombie, Jonas Braasch

Increasing Intelligibility of Multiple Talkers by Selective Mixing...... 1143 Piotr Kleczkowski, Magdalena Plewa, Marek Pluta

An Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) Hilbert Transformer Filter Design Technique for Audio ...... 1149 D. Harris, Edgar Berdahl, Jonathan S. Abel

Individually Adjustable Signal Processing Algorithms for Improved Speech Intelligibility with Cochlear Implants ...... 1157 Isabell Kiral-Kornek, Bernd Edler, Jorn Ostermann, Andreas Buchner

A Set of Microphone Array Beamformers Implementing a Constant-amplitude Panning Law...... 1165 Yoomi Hur, Jonathan S. Abel, Young-cheol Park, Dae Hee Youn

Combination of Different Perceptual Models with Different Audio Transform Coding Schemes - Implementation and Evaluation ...... 1171 Armin Taghipour, Nicole Knolke, Bernd Edler, Jorn Ostermann

Progress in Auditory Perception Research Laboratories - Multimodal Measurement Laboratory of Dresden University of Technology ...... 1178 M. Ercan Altinsoy, Ute Jekosch, Sebastian Merchel, Jurgen Landgraf

Audio Re-Synthesis based on Waveform Lookup Tables...... 1186 Sebastian Heise, Michael Hlatky, Jorn Loviscach

Optimal Location and Orientation for Midrange and High Frequency Loudspeakers in the Instrument Panel of an Automotive Interior...... 1193 Roger Shively, Jerome Halley, Francois Malbos, G. Ruiz

Design of Ambisonic Decoders for Irregular Arrays of Loudspeakers by Non-Linear Optimization...... 1208 Aaron Heller, Eric Benjamin, Richard Lee

An Improved Audio Watermarking Scheme Based on Complex Spectral Phase Evolution Spectrum...... 1230 Jian Wang, Ron Healy, Joe Timoney

ZFIT: A MATLAB Tool for Thiele-Small Parameter Fitting and Optimization...... 1244 Christopher J. Struck

Locating Sounds Around the Screen...... 1251 David Black, Jorn Loviscach

Early Energy Conditions in Small Rooms and in Convolutions of Small-room Impulse Responses ...... 1258 U. Peter Svensson, Hassan EL-Banna Zidan

OpenAIR: An Interactive Auralization Web Resource and Database ...... 1270 Simon Shelley, Damian T. Murphy

Automatic Parallelism for Dataflow Graphs...... 1279 Ramy Sadek

Virtual Acoustic Prototyping – Practical Applications for Loudspeaker Development ...... 1285 Alex Salvatti

An Improved Beryllium Dome Diaphragm Assembly For Large Format Compression Drivers ...... 1296 Marshall Buck, Gordon Simmons, Sam Saye

Seeing Sound: Sound Sensor Array with Optical Outputs...... 1312 Charles Seagrave, Eric Benjamin

Dynamic Motion of the Corrugated Ribbon in a Ribbon Microphone ...... 1320 Daniel Moses Schlessinger, Jonathan S. Abel

Modification of HRTF Filters to Reduce Timbral Effects in Binaural Synthesis, Part 2: Individual HRTFs ...... 1330 Juha Merimaa

Simulation of Horn Driver Response by Combination of Matrix Analysis and FEA ...... 1343 Alex Voishvillo

Quasi-Anechoic Loudspeaker Measurement Using Notch for Impulse Shortening ...... 1353 Richard S. Stroud

A Performance Ranking of Seven Different Types of Loudspeaker Line Arrays ...... 1365 D.B. (Don) Keele Jr.

Ground Loops: The Rest of the Story ...... 1396 Bill Whitlock, Jamie Fox

Musical ELIZA: An Automatic Musical Accompany System Based on Expressive Feature Analysis...... 1405 Ren Gang, Justin Lundberg, Gregory Bocko, Dave Headlam, Mark F. Bocko

Automatic Music Production System Employing Probabilistic Expert Systems...... 1414 Ren Gang, Gregory Bocko, Justin Lundberg, Dave Headlam, Mark F. Bocko

New 10.2-channel Vertical Surround System (10.2-VSS); Comparison Study of Perceived Audio Quality in Various Multichannel Sound Systems with Height Loudspeakers ...... 1426 Sunmin Kim, Young Woo Lee, Ville Pulkki

Objective Evaluation of Wideband Speech Codecs for Voice Communication Over Bluetooth...... 1439 Gary Spittle, Jacek Spiewla, Walter Kargus, Walter Zuluaga, Xuejing Sun

Impulse Response Measurements in the Presence of Clock Drift...... 1449 Nicholas J. Bryan, Miriam A. Kolar, Jonathan S. Abel

Estimating Room Impulse Responses from Recorded Balloon Pops...... 1458 Jonathan S. Abel, Nicholas J. Bryan, Patty P. Huang, Miriam A. Kolar, Bissera V. Pentcheva

Why Ambisonics Does Work ...... 1470 Eric Benjamin, Richard Lee, Aaron Heller

A Time Distributed FFT for Efficient Low Latency Convolution ...... 1481 Jeffrey R. Hurchalla

A Soundfield Microphone using Tangential Capsules...... 1499 Eric Benjamin

A Low Bit Rate Mobile Audio High Frequency Reconstruction...... 1511 Bo Hang, Ruimin Hu, Yuhong Yang, Ge Gao

On the Improvement of Auditory Accuracy with Non-individualized HRTF-based Sounds...... 1518 Catarina Mendonca, Jorge A. Santos, Guilherme Campos, Paulo Dias, Jose Vieira, Joao Ferreira

Application of Optimized Inverse Filtering to improve Time Response and Phase Linearization in Multi-way Loudspeaker Systems...... 1526 Mario Di Cola, Daniele Ponteggia

The Relationship between Sound Field Reproduction and Near-Field Acoustical Holography ...... 1534 Filippo M. Fazi, Philip A. Nelson

Guitar-to-MIDI Interface: Guitar Tones to MIDI Notes Conversion Requiring No Additional Pickups...... 1541 Mamoru Ishikawa, Takeshi Matsuda, Michael Cohen

Author Index