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Graeme Huon introduced our speaker
Neil McLachlan, Associate Professor of the Melbourne University
School of Psychological Sciences who was to present to us on Sound
and Emotion.
Graeme outlined Neil’s wide range
of experience as a researcher in the Departments of Engineering,
Architecture, Psychology and Music, as well as working professionally
as a performer, instrument designer, and acoustic consultant.
Section Chair Graeme Huon introduces Neil McLachlan to the meeting
Neil started by introducing the idea
of an “auditory brain”, and understanding sound from a
psychological perspective. He gave us a quick summary of his work on
the Federation Bells project, explaining how one dimensional
vibration systems (i.e. voices and most instruments) naturally
produce harmonic series, but bells, gongs, and other percussions
instruments vibrate in two or three dimensions, so they don’t
produce harmonic series. Up to that point nobody had been able to
produce bells with harmonic series. He then briefly described how he
arrived at the bell shapes necessary to produce bells with perfect
pitch.
He went on to describe his experiences with the Gamelan
Indonesian percussion orchestras and their use of dissonance as a
musical element.
The next meeting of the AES Melbourne Section will be held on Monday December 9th 2019 at 7:30pm at The SAE Institute – Lecture Theatre, 235 Normanby Rd South Melbourne (directions below).
Associate Professor Neil McLachlan of the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences will present on the topic:
Sound and Emotion
This talk will outline a new neuro-biological understanding of how hearing works. It will show how many auditory functions generally believed to involve complex neural processes in the human neo-cortex, are actually shared with primitive animals, and so involve ancient and relatively simple brain networks.
Chairman Graeme Huon welcomed attendees and introduced our speaker Drew Parson, Audio Applications Specialist at AVID Australian & New Zealand. Graeme also introduced Leigh Spachic, General Manager of Innovative Music Australia, and thanked him for facilitating this presentation.
Drew reviewed a variety of new and sometimes overlooked Pro Tools features developed over the last four years to date with a focus on TV, post-production and music production workflows. In line with its policy of continuous Pro Tools updates, AVID developed many of these enhancements in direct response to customer feedback and evolving technical standards, practices and partner ecosystems.
The next meeting of the AES Melbourne Section will be held on Monday October 28th 2019 at 7:30pm at The SAE Institute – Lecture Theatre, 235 Normanby Rd South Melbourne (directions below).
A previously unpublished video of Neville Thiele discussing his work has now been published on our YouTube channel, as well as on his Audio Legends page on this website.
