JANUARY 2021 ONLINE MEETING NOTICE

Date: Sunday, January 24, 2021, 7:00 PM ZOOM

Place: ZOOM

Featured Guests: Hendrik Gideonse, Principal,  www.xix-acoustics.com

Topic: Mid-size Venue System Design & Acoustics; Affordable Listening Room Acoustics

During the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented number of musicians, producers, audio engineers and audience members have found themselves forced to work and listen at home in rooms that were never designed for the purpose. Pandemic acoustics work has been about finding inexpensive incremental changes to living rooms, bedrooms and even closets to make them viable spaces for critical listening. Hendrik will talk about the Bedroom Acoustics projects that he started over 10 years ago and how it has become relevant again.

Also, on the docket is blocking out the sound of screaming children while you are Zooming with your boss...

Hendrik Gideonse has 25 years of experience creating custom treatments to solve acoustic problems. He started XIX Acoustics in 2008 to design and build studios and listening rooms that sound and ‘feel’ great. The feel is a combination of aesthetics, usability, and ergonomics. At the meeting, he will answer questions that are informed by experience, and many years of on-the-job successful installations.

Our original meeting date was in March 2020 at the at the Porch Southern Fare restaurant. It is one of the sites treated acoustically by XIX-Acoustics. Hendrik will show and explain some of his room treatment products for improving the sound in your playback room, and the audio equipment he can employ if desired by the client.

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If you are using a computer and this is your first time with Zoom, give yourself at least 15-20 minutes prior to the meeting to set things up: you click on the link in the Zoom instructions below and will be guided to download the Zoom software, HERE:
https://zoom.us/download

You can use your computer’s audio if you have a headset attached, or you can dial-in for audio. If you have a smart phone or tablet and a good internet connection, then you should install the Zoom app for your device and connect using it.

See below for dial-in instructions for the Zoom meeting.

If you do not have a computer or smart phone/tablet, you can just dial one of the numbers and join for audio only; use your touch tone dialer to enter the meeting number and password when prompted.

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In the pandemic era, musicians are looking for ways to perform live while being remote.

The internet has latency and anything over 40 milliseconds causes difficulties.

Internet 2, a network that connects universities and organizations, can transmit huge quantities of data. In 2014 the Chiara String Quartet, at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, performed Mendelsohn’s Octet with the Avalon Quarter, 450 miles away at Northern Illinois University. The latency was 19 milliseconds. “

As long as you’re inside a 750-800 mile range, you get the sort of delay that happens inside a room, inside a performance hall said Howard Herring, president and CEO of the New World Symphony, the Miami-based training academy that uses Internet2 for remote coaching sessions and link-ups with composers.
— BBC Music Magazine Se20

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