May Meeting Notice

May 2005 Meeting Notice

Sound Design for Multimedia requires a combination of skills and talents. One must be an artist, an engineer, a technician, and somewhat of a hacker too.

As the much-heralded "digital convergence" begins creeping into our living rooms, audio is becoming an increasingly important part of consumer products. This session will walk through a few case studies of
how audio can be used to both create and enhance the interfaces for consumer electronic devices like hard-disk video recorders and wireless network music players.  When your user is a remote-wielding couch
potato, how can you tell them that they've arrived at the main menu, or warn them before they delete last week's episode of Gilligan's Island? 

Jeff Essex will provide his approach for leading clients through the process of delivering a full range of audio production services, while lending technical expertise to help multmedia producers in creating sound, including different file formats, delivery systems, production techniques, and authoring tools.

The Speaker

Jeff Essex, Creative Director of audiosyncrasy, creates music, sound effects and voiceover for multimedia. He is credited on over 50 CD-ROM titles, including products from Disney Interactive, Virgin Sound and
Vision, Mindscape and 3DO.  For the past eight years he has worked primarily in online entertainment and audio interface design with clients including Walt Disney Internet Group, Nickelodeon Online,
Shockwave.com, Beatnik, Sun Microsystems, Intuit, LeapFrog and Silicon Graphics. He is an active member of the Interactive Audio SIG of the MIDI Manufacturer's Association.  His book, Multimedia Sound and Music
Studio, (Random House/Apple New Media) won the prestigious Computer Press Award for Best Advanced How-To Book of 1996.

Directions

http://www.dolby.com/company/directions_sf.html

From Peninsula/S.F. Airport/Silicon Valley (Hwy. 101 North) Take Vermont Street Exit. Make immediate left onto Vermont Street. Go 5 blocks and turn left onto Alameda Street. Three blocks up is Potrero Avenue. Dolby is the large, red, 3-story brick building on the corner of Potrero and Alameda.

From Bay Bridge (Hwy. 80 West) Take 9th Street/Civic Center exit. Go to the south onto Harrison Street. Follow Harrison to 10th Street. Turn left onto 10th Street and proceed under freeway overpass onto Potrero Avenue. Dolby is the large, red, 3-story brick building on the corner of Potrero and Alameda.

From Golden Gate Bridge (Hwy. 101 South) Cross Golden Gate Bridge, take the Lombard Street (Hwy. 101) Exit. Follow Hwy. 101 signs up Lombard to Van Ness Avenue. Turn right. Proceed on Van Ness to Fell Street and turn left. Proceed on Fell until it crosses Market Street and becomes 10th Street. Continue on 10th under freeway overpass and bear right onto Potrero Avenue. Dolby is the large, red, 3-story brick building on the corner of Potrero and Alameda.

Address:
Dolby Laboratories
100 Potrero Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94103-4813
415-558-0200