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Dear all,

On Friday, 9th November at 2:00pm, Alex Case will present the seminar 'Reverberation Without a Concert Hall'.

This talk will take place in B.R. 4.01 in the Bancroft Road building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS.

Please note also that Alex's talk will last from 2pm until 4pm, instead of the usual hour.

Information on how to access the school can be found at http://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/howtofindus/mileend/. If you are coming from outside Queen Mary, please let me know, so that I can provide detailed directions and make sure no-one is stuck outside the doors.  If you wish to be added to / removed from our mailing list as an individual recipient, please send me an email and I'll be happy to do so.

TITLE : REVERBERATION WITHOUT A CONCERT HALL

Presenter:  Alex U. Case, Sound Recording Technology, University of Massachusetts Lowell.

ABSTRACT:

Reverberation in the recording studio comes from a variety of technologies, and achieves a great range of results.  Echo chambers, plates and springs still have their place in contemporary music production even as digital reverb engines dominate.  While many digital reverb algorithms are designed to emulate concert halls and houses of worship, other algorithms are directly inspired by the seemingly atypical sounds of chambers, plates and springs.  This tutorial reviews the technologies behind studio reverb units, shares a broad range of measurement data, and offers organization and insight into the creative, musical applications of reverb.  Audio engineers reach for reverb effects to create space and ambience, to be sure.  Reverb is also employed to influence timbre, create textures, invoke scene changes, influence masking, and synthesize new sounds entirely.  Professor Case articulates a comprehensive set of strategies for fully leveraging the broad range of effects reverb makes possible for sound recordings and loudspeaker mediated art.

BIO:

Alex U. Case is an Associate Professor of Sound Recording Technology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.  With degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Music, and Acoustics, Professor Case has dedicated his professional life to the study of aesthetics, perception, signal processing, electro-acoustics and room acoustics for recorded music.

His research and professional activities focus heavily on the technical foundations, creative motivations, and aesthetic merit of recording and signal processing techniques used in multitrack production.  Case is a widely published author, with over 100 articles appearing in multiple journals and industry trade publications.  He has written the authoritative guide to audio signal processing in multitrack production, Sound FX – Unlocking the Creative Potential of Recording Studio Effects, published by Focal Press. Applying signal processing at the all-important mixdown session is covered in his book, Mix Smart - Pro Audio Tips for Your Multitrack Mix.  Case is also an author for Lynda.com’s Audio Channel of online, media-rich learning experiences.  Foundations of Audio: Delay and Modulation was released in 2012, with Foundations of Audio:  Reverb, and Foundations of Audio:  Harmonic Effects forthcoming in 2013.

Active in the Audio Engineering Society, Case is serves on the Education Committee, the Membership Committee, and the Awards Committee.  He has been a featured speaker and panelist for multiple regional meetings, and instructed several standing-room only tutorials at AES International Conventions.  Case is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, serves as Chair of Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics, and has been an invited contributor of many dozens of papers.


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Robert Tubb
PhD Research Student
Navigation and control in musical parameter spaces
Centre for Digital Music
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
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