Science makes it go!

The DAFx 2006 conference is being held at McGill. You might think I'd be all over the world's Digital Audio effects conference but no... The people who are involved in this conference are from Music Technology. They are the scientists that are pushing the boundary of what is possible in signal processing.

My Fourier theorem isn't what is has to be if I want to understand what these guys are talking about.

The composition majors are excited about the concert that is part of the conference. For all their science they can't do much with the technology they produce. They pass the tourch over to composers and instrumentalists who specialize in the "art" side of things.

I got to help McGill's eletroacoustics guys set up an insane load of equipment. A 9 channel audio diffusion setup, 2x 70 inch plasma displays, 5 computers...