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Scientifique is an international
movement
meetings are on the Third Tuesday
of the month, at 7:30 for 8pm start at the Latest Music
Bar, Manchester St, Brighton BN2 1TF
food is available; come at 7pm to eat (tel 687171)
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Tuesday June 18th 2013 Latest Music Bar
The
Science of Audio
Engineering
Jez Wells
Department of Music, University of York
We've come a long way in the last 150 years
of sound recording but how much further can
we go? Are we able yet to conjure any sound
from (or beyond) or imaginations? Can we
extract individual sounds from a record of
an orchestra? Can we ever fit the complexity
of a large, reverberant space into a typical
computer system? And just what is
'engineering' anyway, in the context of the
recording studio?
Jez Wells graduated from The
University of Surrey's Tonmeister program
with a degree in Music and Sound Recording
in 1994 and has worked in audio and music
ever since. Following time spent in London
teaching and then working for Digital Audio
Research and Fairlight (home of the Computer
Music Instrument) he moved to York in 2000,
where he obtained a Masters and then a PhD
in Music Technology. He has worked at the
University of York since 2004 as a teaching
fellow, research associate and a lecturer.
In 2011-2012 he was a public engagement
fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
