Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771
ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM
Monday, March 19, 2012 / 3:30 PM, Building 3 Auditorium
Scott Metcalfe
"What’s This I’m Hearing? CDs, MP3s, and Other Audio Formats"
ABSTRACT -- A presentation on the objective and subjective differences between analog and digital recording formats such as tape and computer software/hardware, as well as common release formats from analog vinyl and cassette to digital CDs, MP3s and other formats. We will look at how these formats store and reproduce sound and listen to examples to help you form your own opinion.
SPEAKER -- Scott Metcalfe is Director of Recording Arts and Sciences at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. He has engineered hundreds of recordings in many different styles of music, with a primary focus on remote classical recording. Among the projects he has recorded are live performances by Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Fleming and Sarah Chang. Recently he edited, mixed and mastered orchestral and electronic music for the Civilization V video game. His work has been released internationally on numerous independent labels including Naxos, Mode Records and Albany Records, broadcast in the United States on National Public Radio, and heard on radio broadcasts throughout Europe. From 1999-2009 he was Chair of Music Production and Technology at The Hartt School, University of Hartford; from 2002-2009 he taught courses in sound design at Yale University’s School of Drama; and from 1999-2000 taught in the summerterm music technology program at New York University. In recent years he has traveled internationally to present lectures and workshops on recording engineering and music production in England and South Korea.