May Meeting Notice

May 2003 Meeting Notice

Low-latency, high-quality audio transmission over next-generation Internet is a reality. Bidirectional, multichannel flows over continental distances have been demonstrated in musical jam sessions and other experimental situations. The dominating factors affecting delay are no longer system issues, but the transmission time bounded by lightspeed.

In order for these resources to be useful in the domain of professional audio, systems must be able to deliver signals according a stringent set of requirements:

1. Uncompressed linear sampling (or at least fast, lossless signal compression if compression is necessary)
2. Multiple channels (e.g., 4 to 48 and beyond, depending on the application)
3. CD quality resolution or better
4. Very near real-time bidirectional throughput for interactive applications

The SoundWIRE (Sound Waves on the Internet from Real-time Echoes) group at CCRMA will demonstrate a prototype system and discuss its technical features.

Chris Chafe (Professor of Music) is director of the Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). His research areas range from composition and performance, to computer networks for audio and musical signal analysis/synthesis. He has articles published in various technical journals including Computer Music Journal, Proceedings of ICMC, and IEEE conferences.

Scott Wilson is a PhD candidate at CCRMA. He received his Bachelor's degree in music from McGill University in Canada and studied recording at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada. Research interests include interactive audio, machine learning and human computer interaction for music. He is Vice-President of the Stanford AES chapter.

Daniel Walling in an undergraduate at Stanford majoring in Music, Science and Technology.

 

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