Date: 11th April 2018, 18:30-20:00
Location: University of York – Department of Theatre, Film and Television, Baird Lane, Heslington, YO10 5GB
Carmen Rosas presents her research on creating a Binaural Sound Map of Malaga. This sound map aims at creating a tool that collects some of the most distinctive soundscapes of Malaga, an important touristic city with multiple and different soundscapes (and also many conflicts caused by noise) so that they can be listened to by their inhabitants and people from all over the world, become part of the city’s cultural heritage and be archived and catalogued for their conservation. It has also the intention of promoting the awareness of preserving a good quality sound environment by showing the diversity and richness of the soundscapes of the city.
Meeting
Meeting: Audio over IP and the Future of Radio
Meeting: Thursday 12th April 2018 | 18:00 for an 18:30 start. Ample refreshments from 18:00.
Location: Palmerston Lecture Theatre, The Spark, Southampton Solent University, SO14 0YN
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Two presentations from BBC Research and development, by Chris Baume and Jamie Laundon at a joint event from AES South and SMPTE South Section.
Chris Baume: The Mermaid’s Tears – creating the world‘s first live interactive object-based radio drama
Object-based audio is a revolutionary approach to broadcasting that enables the production and delivery of immersive, interactive and accessible listening experiences. Chris will start by presenting an overview of the opportunities and challenges of object-based audio. He will describe how BBC R&D designed and built an experimental radio studio and an end-to-end object-based broadcast chain. Finally, he will discuss how the studio was used to deliver the world’s first live interactive object-based radio drama, as part of the Orpheus collaborative project.
Chris Baume is a Senior Research Engineer at BBC R&D in London, where he leads the BBC’s research into audio production tools and the BBC’s role in the Orpheus EU H2020 project. His research interests include semantic audio analysis, interaction design, object-based audio and spatial audio. Chris is a Chartered Engineer and a PhD candidate at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing at the University of Surrey.
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Jamie Laundon: Audio over IP and AES67 – learning to play nicely together
As AoIP becomes commonplace across the industry, the BBC’s Jamie Laundon provides an informative summary of the current state of IP audio in the radio studio, how the latest update to AES67 improves interoperability, and how Plugfests are used to identify and resolve issues between different systems. He will also walk us through an example installation to discuss the various options and decisions you need to make to make your next installation fully IP.
Jamie Laundon is a Senior Technologist at BBC Design and Engineering. He delivers complex technology projects for the BBC’s national radio networks, with a focus on connectivity, workflow design, metadata and networked audio. His 16 year radio career began within UK commercial radio at Heart and LBC in London, before becoming Technical Manager at Galaxy Radio in Yorkshire. He later joined Radio Computing Services (RCS) as an integration specialist working with radio networks across Europe and the Middle East. Jamie is a member of the Engineering innovation team researching BBC Radio’s next-generation “Internet Fit Radio Studios”, with a focus on networked audio interoperability.
Meeting: Sports Tech Innovation
With many speakers including from BT Sport, IMG, FA Group this free event looks at emerging production technology and its use in sport. Topics include:
- AI
- eSports
- Remote Production
- Immersive video (AR, VR, MR, 360 etc.)
- Graphics Analysis
- Live Streaming
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Speakers
- Andy Beale, Chief Engineer, BT Sport
- Gareth Capon, CEO, Grabyo
- Damien Cullen, Senior Video Manager, The FA Group
- Tim De Marco, Head of Engineering, IMG
- Dan Finch, CEO, Simplestream
- Marina Kalkanis, CEO, M2A Media
- Andrew Preece, Executive Director, Sunset+vine
- Shane Warden, Director of broadcast and technology, ATP
- Robin Broomfield, Technical Manager, Sky
- Nik Selman, MD, Formidable
- Matt Stagg, Head of Media and Broadcast, EE
Meeting: Is 2110 the Future of Broadcasting?
Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 18:30. SMPTE’s ST2110 is the most important advance in television since John Logie Baird went head to head with EMI-Marconi in the BBC’s 1936 trials at Alexandra Palace, London. In this joint meeting between SMPTE and RTS Thames Valley:
- What is ST2110?
- Why is it so important to the future of broadcasting?
- Will Television will now become software?
- What are the ramifications for traditional hardware manufacturers?
- Where does the cloud fit in?
Tony Orme, writer of ‘Building IP Media Facilities’ and for The Broadcast Bridge, answers these questions and many more he digs deeper into IP and its resurgence in popularity.
