Organised by the Musical Acoustics and Electroacoustics Group
Sound Recording Techniques and their influences on Musical Composition, Interpretation, Performance and Appreciation
Wednesday 26 March 2014
MediaCityUK, Salford
Programme
9.30 Registration and refreshments
10.00 Welcome and Introduction
10.10 From electric to acoustic instruments: digital synthesis and emulation
Prof. Patrick Gaydecki, University of Manchester
10.50 The studio as a compositional tool: revisited
Katia Isakoff, Association for the Study of the Art of Record Production
11.30 Coffee
12.00 Practical ambisonics: the pros and cons and pitfalls of 3D audio
Dr. Bruce Wiggins, University of Derby
12.40 Questions and Answers
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Case Studies in Modern Music Production: where science meets art
Dr Rob Toulson, Anglia Ruskin University
14.40 Analyzing Digital Music
Prof. Mark Plumbley, Queen Mary University
15.30 Tea
15.50 How distortion affects the perceived quality of music: psychoacoustic experiments
Iain Jackson, Bruno M. Fazenda, Trevor J. Cox, Paul Kendrick, F F. Li, Stephen Groves-Kirkby, Alex Wilson, University of Salford.
16.30 Q&A Session
17.00 Close
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