(Sunset in the Azores) This is a brief summary of the symposium, Invisible Places, held in April at the University of the Azores in Ponta Delgada on Sao Miguel island in the Azores. Your Audio Penguin, Eric Somers, did a presentation there. The entire conference proceedings will be posted sometime in June and I will…
SPRING CONFERENCES
There some interesting conferences this spring for people interested in exploring some of the lesser known aspects of sound. In this post I will describe three of them. I expect to attend at least two of them, maybe all three. I am presenting a paper at Invisible Places. Full disclosure also requires me to say…
PODCAST 1: STORIES IN SOUND
In this post I want to talk about a huge growth area in the field of audio: podcasts. This is a huge topic so I will start with what will ultimately become a series of articles. Podcasts can, in a sense, be considered a new kind of radio. Before the introduction of television people would…
HEADPHONE MADNESS
This blog is a personal history, for me, of headphones. But it is more than my personal story, it is a story of the role of headphones in society. CHILDHOOD As a child I was given a pair of headphones. I think they came as part of a do-it-yourself crystal radio kit (though the kit…
BLIND AUDIO
This post is a request for input from the professional audio community. You can respond via the comment box related to this post or email me off list: info@theaudiopenguin.flywheelsites.com. If you have a long response that might be interesting to others, and does not contain proprietary information, I may even invite you to contribute your…