The McGill Audio Engineering Society and CIRMMT present:
We are the Robots: Developing the automatic sound engineer with Brecht De Man
Free admission!
Abstract: The time has come: after outsourcing automobile assembly, spell checking, and supermarket checkouts to the Machines, recent research has jumpstarted the performance of automatic music production systems. However, despite having come a long way since Dugan's automatic microphone mixer (1974), there may be an even longer way ahead to tackle the immensely complex task of mixing music. In this session, benchmarks of current automatic mixing systems against professional and amateur engineers will be presented, and future research plans will be unveiled. You will also learn if your job just got easier, more creative, or obsolete.
Brecht De Man is a researcher, audio engineer and musician. He studied Electronic Engineering at the University of Ghent and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHz). Combining his experience as a live sound engineer, engineering education and love for music, he recently started a PhD in Audio Engineering at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London. He has published and presented research on intelligent audio production tools and the psychoacoustics of recording engineering. He is an AES Educational Foundation HARMAN Scholar (2013-2014) and Chair of the AES London UK Student Chapter.
