Past Meetings & Newsletters
2013
- October 22 - Annual Meeting: Sound Synthesis Mechanisms
- July 18 - Tour of Green Music Center
- May 21 - The Emerging Ethernet Technology of Audio Video Bridging (AVB)
- April 18 - Current State of Physically Modeled Musical Instruments on Handheld Mobile Devices
- March 12 - Designing Expressive and Lasting Musical Instruments For Computer Input
- February 12 - Bay Area Audio Legend Fred Catero
2012
- December 4 - Annual Meeting - Village Music: Last of the Great Record Stores
- September 26 - The "Concept Tahoe" Wireless Microphone Project
- August 16 - Aesthetics of Telling Your Story with Sound
- August 13 - Trees: “Downy Oak" installation, data sonification and ambisonics
- June 23 - Wrecking Crew
- April 6 - CCRMA Open House 2012
- February 21 - Studer RELINK
2011
- December 15 - Documentary Movie Screening: The Love We Make
- November 10 - Dolby Surround Sound Mix Theater
- October 5 - Recording California Soundscapes
- June 14 - Microphone Clinic
- June 4 - Transcending the Acoustic
- May 24 - Lies, Damned Lies & Specifications
- March 8 - The Art of Producing
- February 10 - The ideas and technologies behind mastering?
- January 20 - Session Psychology - Facilitating Inspired Performance
2010
- December 14 - Studio Tour: Studio 880/Mix Manor
- September 14 - White Spaces and Wireless Licensing Rules
- July 27 - The X-Curve: Its Origins and History
- July 13 - Safely Handling the Power of Sound
- June 08 - Redefining the Recording Studio Business: Making Your Studio into a Viable Business Model
- May 05 - Live Sound
- April 27 - Tapping into the Internet as a Musical / Acoustical Medium
- January 27 - Audio Restoration, A Case of "Not Good Enough" - Review
2009
- December 15th - Chasing Sound! - Les Paul John Paulson's documentary - Review
- November 19th - Audio and Video Studios for Education
- October 20th - Mastering Mastering and Radio Production - Review
- October 19th - From Mic to Monitor - Review
- September 24th - Research at CNMAT: New Computer-Based Musical Instruments, Many Channel Audio Systems, and Open Sound Control - Review
- September 17th - Reality is Not a Recording / A Recording is Not Reality - Review
- May 6th - Creating Foley and Post Production Audio for Film - Review
- May 5th - Madi Router Solutions for Sports Broadcast - Review
- March 19th - Ribbon Microphones: An American Innovation - Review
- March 12th - Laughing Tiger - studio tour and lecture about recording industry - Review
- February 25th - Tips & Tricks with Pro Tools 8 - Review
- January 28th - Penteo, LLC "Stereo-to-5.1 Conversion Process" - Review
2008
- Dec 17th - Respect Yourself – The Stax Records Story - Review
- Dec 2nd - Voice Processor based on the Human Auditory Pathway - Review
- Aug 5th - WAM Recording Studio Tour - Review
- July 7th - San Francisco Opera's HDTV network for house and broadcast - Review
- June 11th - Understanding Audio in HDMI - Review - Presentation
- May 6th - Accurate sound reproduction from two loudspeakers in a living room Siegfried Linkwitz - Review
- March 11th - High Resolution Audio Keith O Johnson - Review
- February 12th - Stereo techniques Ron Streicher - Review
2007
- December 11th - Before the Music Dies - Review
- November 6th - The Human/Machine Interface - Review
- September 18th - Ioan Allen Egg Show - Review
- July 10th - Audio Precision - Presentation
- May 22nd - Sony Playstation3
- April 24th - Dolby Lake Processor
- March 27th - Singer Studios V7 - Review
- February 20th - Power Amps — Demystified and Demythified - Review
- January 30th - Radio Interference in AudioSystems
2006
- December 12th - Sound Man, From WWII to MP3
- July 11th - Tymphany's Linear Array Transducer Technology
- June 13th - The Pro Tools 48-Bit Dithered Mixer
- April 11th - Creative Labs Frequency Domain DSP - Review
- March 14th - March 2006 CCRMA Lecture - Review
- February 21st - Auditory Scene Analysis and Audio Signal Processing Applications Brett Crockett
- January 17th - MC Intelligent System Controller Euphonix - Review
2005
- December 13th - Bad Boy Made Good
- September 13th - Gorillas In the Mix - Bernie Krause
- August 18th - Single-Point Stereo and Surround Microphone Techniques - David Josephson - Review
- July 19th - 10 Giga Networking and Audio- Stephen Lampen - Review
- June 29th - The Business of Audio - Frank Wells - Review
- May 26th - May 2005 Special Event H.E.A.R. - Kathy Peck - Review
- May 12th - Sound Design for the User Interface in Multimedia Consumer Products - Jeff Essex - Review
- April 26th - Presentation on Speech Intelligibility in Teleconferencing - Mei Wu - Review
- March 1st - Receptor- Next Generation Music Computer - Muse Research -Review
- Feb 8th - Audio System Grounding - Jensen Transformers -Review
- Jan 11th The Reconstruction of Mechanically Recorded Sound - Expression Center for New Media, Emeryville
2004
- Dec 14th - Tom Dowd & The Language of Music Fantasy Studios, Berkeley CA
- Nov 2nd - Project Studio Acoustics, Dolby Labs, San Francisco CA - Review - Presentation
- Sept 21st - MTB A New Method For Capturing and Rendering Spatial Sound, Dolby Labs, San Francisco, CA - Review
- Sept 13th - Anytime, Anywhere Communications, National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale - Review
- July 27th - Test methods and safety of communications headsets, Plantronics, Santa Cruz - Review
- June 8th - UA - History and philosophy Universal Audio, Santa Cruz - Review
- May 4th - From Sensors to Speaker Arrays (CNMAT), CNMAT Berkeley - Review
- April 13th - Production Issues in Gaming Audio, Dolby Labs, San Francisco, CA
2003
- December 17th - General Meeting and Awards ceremony, Crowne Plaza -
- November 9th - Audio and Modern DSPs, Cogswell College - Review - Presentation
- October 9th - Real time digital pro audio transport and control over Ethernet, Cogswell College
- September 9th - A Novel Music Composition Interface, Dolby Labs - Review - Presentation
- August 20th - Measurement and auralization of 'moving' late reverberation, Cogswell College
- July 8th - DTV Audio update: Demystifying Metadata, Dolby Labs - Review
- May 29th, - Objective Audio Quality Analysis Using the PEAQ ITU Standard, Dolby Labs
- May 20th, Audio Over Next-Generation Internet, Stanford University - Review
- April 29th - AdrenaLinn, Dolby Labs
- March 11th - Problems and techniques used in the creation of audio for video games, Electronic Arts
- February 27th - Max Air Broadcast Tour, Euphonix
- February 24th - Audio In The Networked Age, Dolby Labs
- January 28th - The Evolver Synthesizer, Cogswell College
2002
- September 17th - mLan: Audio and MIDI over Firewire, Dolby Labs
- May 14th - Analysis of Traditional and Subtractive Methods of Room Equalization, Dolby Labs
- March 26th - Cinema Translation, Dolby Labs
2001
- December 10th - Sound Skywalker Style, Skywalker Sound
- October 25th - Demo of DVD-Audio Creator, Sonic Solutions
- August 15th - AES31 and Collaboration, Rocket Networks
- June 19th - MPEG-4 Audio: Capabilities and new concepts for music distribution, Philips Electronics
- May 23rd - What Does Music from Euro-American Culture Have to do With Nature, Dolby Labs
- March 8th - Audio in Embedded Processors, Stanford University
- January 17th - Music Synthesis, CCRMA Stanford University
2000
- October 5th - Internet Radio, Cogswell College, Sunnyvale
- July 18th - New Music Distribution Formats, Fantasy Records, Berkeley
- June 27th - DVD Audio Overview, Dolby Labs San Francisco
- May 23rd - Super Audio Compact Disc, Sony San Jose
- March 21st - Tour of the UCSC Music Center, Peter Elsea, UCSC
- March 8th - Professional Audio Equipment and the European EMC Directive, Mark Briggs, Elliot Labs
- January 18th - Sixty Five Years of Stereo Optical Ioan Allen, Dolby Labs
1999
- November 2nd - A Brief Tutorial on Proximity Effect, David Josephson, Josephson Engineering, Cogswell College, Sunnyvale
- Sept 21 - The Truth About Audio Cable, Steve Lampen, Belden Electronics, Cogswell College, Sunnyvale
- April 8, 1999: "Unequal Error Protection for Wireless Transmission of MPEG Audio" by Dr. Curtis Ling, HKUST, at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Foster City
- March 11, 1999 "Wildlife Recording and the Natural Soundscape" Doug Quin, Bernie Krause, Nature Sound Society, at the Oakland Zoo.
- January 28, 1999: "Bay Area Broadcast DTV and HDTV: Are We There Yet?" at KPIX-TV, North Studio, San Francisco
1998
- December 15, 1998: "ATSC and 5.1 Channel Audio" by Steve Lyman, at Dolby Labs, San Francisco
- September 9, 1998: "Considerations for State of the Art Speaker Design", by Jack Hidley and Jacob Hawley, at Cogswell College, Sunnyvale
- June 16, 1998: "The Iasys Electro-Acoustic Analyzer", by Mark Donnigan of AudioControl at Cogswell College, Sunnyvale
- May 27, 1998: Recent Results in Physical Modeling Synthesis for Wind Instruments with Flaring or Piecewise-Conical Bores, and, The Latest on SynthBuilder and SynthCore for Windows
- April 21, 1998: AAC, The New Standard in High Quality Audio Coding, by Dr. Earl Levine and Scott Levine of Liquid Audio, at Liquid Audio, Redwood City
- March 11, 1998: "Audio Support in Microsoft Operating Systems", by Aaron Higgins of Microsoft at the Philips Learning Center, Sunnyvale
- February 18, 1998: "Wavetable Music Synthesizer Optimization for a Wintel World", by Dr. Jeffrey Barish and David Taylor of EuPhonics at Cogswell College, Sunnvyale
- January 27, 1998: Virtual Surround 3D Audio by Ron Knapp, Medianix, at Cogswell College, Sunnvyale
1997
- December 8, 1997: Jim Abbott, Failure Analysis Associates presents "Acoustical Design Factors and Active Sound Controllers - A Look to the Future" at Dolby Labs, Brisbane Manufacturing Facility
- November 26,1997: CNMAT Presents "How and in What Directions Sound Radiates from Wind Instruments" by visiting Regents' Lecturer Rene Causse of IRCAM at CNMAT, UC Berkeley.
- October 2, 1997: "Lossless Audio Coding" by Brit Conner of Digideck and Al Wegener of MusicCompress at Cogswell College, Sunnyvale.
- SMPTE SF Meeting: August 21, 1997: "Low-cost, High-quality MPEG Transmission and MPEG editing" by Janek Kaliczak, Futuretel, Inc. at Futuretel, Sunnyvale.
- July 22, 1997: "USB Audio", by Geert Knapen of Philips Multimedia. Philips Learning Center, Sunnyvale.
- June 24, 1997: "Content-based Classification, Search and Retrieval of Audio", by Erling Wold of Muscle Fish at CNMAT, U.C. Berkeley
- May 21, 1997: "Good Sound Virtual Acoustics", by Dr. Loren Rush, at Dolby Labs, San Francisco
- April 17, 1997: "Superconductor, an Interactive Interpretation Program", by Dr. Manfred Clynes, at Cogswell College
- March 26, 1997: "Audio in Interactive Computer Games" panel including Murray Allen, Brad Fuller, Mark Miller, Michael Land, John Paul, Tom Rettig
- February 12, 1997: "The Egg Show, A Demonstration of the Artistic Uses of Sound on Film", by Ioan Allen, Dolby Laboratories Inc., at Dolby Labs, San Francisco
1996
- December 18, 1996: "Internet Distribution and Promotion of Music" by Phil Wiser, Liquid Audio Inc, at SGI, Mt. View
- July 17, 1996: "The Early Sound Field in Performance Halls" by Anthony Nash, Charles M. Salter Associates, San Francisco, at DOLBY LABS, SAN FRANCISCO
- April 30, 1996: "Visual Framework and the Virtual Mixer" by David A. Gibson, at Virtual Studios, San Francisco
- March 28, 1996: "Save our Tapes, Archiving and Restoration" by Jim Lindner and Jim Wheeler, (at Silicon Graphics)
- February 6, 1996: "QuickTime, Firewire & Audio on the Macintosh" by David Van Brink, and Michael Johas-Teener, at Apple Computer
- January 23, 1996: "The 'MPACT' Media Engine" by David Miller, Avery Wang and Phil Wiser, Chromatic Research, at Foster City Holiday Inn
1995
- December 6, 1995: "Audio and Music Research Exploiting SGI Workstations at CNMAT" by Adrian Freed, Guillermo Garcia, Guy Garnett, and David Wessel, at SGI, Mt. View
- Sept 18, 1995: "Windows 95 and Audio" by Tony Rodrigues of Oak Technology, at SGI, Mt. View
- May 18, 1995: Alex Limberis at Korg R&D (Milpitas, CA) "OASYS Music Synthesis Technology"
- May 1, 1995: Gary Tobin at San Francisco State, "Spectral Recording System"
- April 18, 1995: Durand Begault at Dolby Labs, "3-D Sound and Communications Systems"
- Feb 16,1995: Tomlinson Holman at Sonic Solutions
Newsletter Archive
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