Kalender

Welcome!

This first session is very important, please don't miss it. Even if it is at 8 am on a dark November morning...

We will give an overview of the course and how it works, and we will allocate the four laboratory sessions.

Please try to get the course book, Pohlmann: Principles of Digital Audio, in good time for the second week of the course. During the first week, we will be using handouts.

Sten Ternström

”You are surrounded!” Background & theory for spatial sound. (handout material.) Guest lecturer dr Damian Murphy, dept of Electronics, Univ of York.

Recording for stereo and spatial sound. Damian Murphy. (Recapitulate on microphones from earlier courses)

Exercise on A/D-D/A. Methods for sampling-rate conversion. ST

Hardware for audio part 1: IC's and buses for digital audio, construction examples (handout materials). ST

How audio is handled in different operating systems, in many layers of protocol. ST (in CSC library, LV3 level 4)

Group assignments: status reports, problem solving. ST

Theory of low bit-rate coding; some implementations. Pohlmann chapters 10 & 11. ST

Common high-level tools and applications. Pohlmann chap 17. ST

Guest lecturer: Paul Nygren, technical strategist, Sveriges Radio

Hard disks in audio + transmission: types of cables and networks. (Pohlmann chap 13, 14, 15; WArt chap 8, WIntro chaps 7,9) ST

CD, DVD, DVD-Audio and SACD. (Pohl­mann chaps 6-9, WIntro chap 11, Swedish Radio's green book). ST

Presentation of the assignments, and handout of the home exam.

The completed exam is due on 8 January 2016 and must be handed in in person or returned by post in hardcopy (not e-mail, because there is a requirement for your signature).

Sten Ternström