A lecture-demonstration by Dan Dugan of the Nature Sounds Society
* The many ways nature recordings are used
* How our national parks are struggling with a new mission to inventory, monitor, and preserve their natural soundscapes
* Two styles, species hunting and soundscape recording
* Introduction to the theory of soundscape analysis
* Capturing space: mono, stereo, and surround
* Dugan's "heavy" and "light" field recording rigs
* A tour of sixteen California soundscapes in unmixed surround sound
* An opportunity to handle and listen to both economical and professional field recording gear
About the speaker:
Dan Dugan started his career as a theatrical lighting designer, then switched to sound. He was the first person to be credited as "Sound Designer" in 1968. Dugan invented the automatic microphone mixer, demonstrating his first prototype at an AES paper session in 1974. Currently he manufactures his inventions in the form of automatic mixing controllers, used on television talk shows, news panels, sports commentary, presidential debates, and wherever there are multiple unscripted talkers.
Dugan has been a technical advisor to the Nature Sounds Society for over twenty years. He has recorded soundscapes in New Zealand and in many national parks and monuments, including Muir Woods, Yosemite, Pinnacles, Joshua Tree, Lassen, Yellowstone, Olympic, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Sequoia-Kings Canyon, Lava Beds, and Haleakala. Dugan and his wife Sharon Perry did a project in which they recorded a dawn chorus in Cathedral Grove of Muir Woods every month for a year. This spring he recorded surround sound overnight in four locations in Joshua Tree National Park and in the three Sequoia groves of Yosemite National Park.
Address & Directions:
Dolby Laboratories
100 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94103-4813
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http://www.dolby.com/about/contact_us/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.
Parking:
Free street parking after 7:00 PM
