First COST-G6 Workshop 
on Digital Audio Effects 
(DAFX98) 
November 19-21, 1998 
Barcelona, Spain 
 
  SCHEDULE

All events, unless indicated, will take place at the main conference site of the Àgora Jordi Rubió i Balaguer, Ciutadella campus, Pompeu Fabra University (Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27, Barcelona)

 

Wednesday 
Thursday
REGISTRATION
Opening Session
Paper Session 1
Paper Session 2
Poster Session 1
Friday
 
Paper Session 5
Paper Session 6
Poster Session 2
Saturday
 
Paper Session 10
Paper Session 11
Poster Session 3
Lunch time
Lunch time
Lunch time
REGISTRATION Paper Session 3 
Paper Session 4
Paper Session 7 
Paper Session 8
Paper Session 9
Paper Session 12 
Paper Session 13
RECEPTION
CONCERT
CONCERT
BANQUET
 
Wednesday November 18th 
17:00 
20:00
REGISTRATION
22:00 Informal reception and meeting point  
MOOG  
(Arc del Teatre, 3 08002 Barcelona)
Thursday November 19th 
09:00 REGISTRATION
09:30 Opening session by Dr. Enric Argullol, Rector of Pompeu Fabra University and Joan Albaigés, Commissioner for the Universities and Research of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia
PAPER SESSION 1:  FILTERING, DELAY and MODULATION (I)
10:00 Dutilleux, Pierre 
Filters, Delays, Modulations and Demodulations: A tutorial
10:30 Fernández-Cid, Pablo ; Casajús-Quirós, Francisco J. 
Enhanced quality and variety for chorus/flange units
10:50 Rocchesso, Davide 
Fractionally-addressed Delay Lines
11:10 COFFE BREAK
PAPER SESSION 2:  FILTERING, DELAY and MODULATION (II)
11:30 Farina, Angelo; Ugolotti, Emanuele; Bellini, Alberto; Cibelli, Gianfranco; Morandi, Carlo 
Inverse numerical filters for linearisation of loudspeaker’s response
11:50 Piirila, Esa; Lokki, Tapio; Välimäki, Vesa 
Digital Signal Processing Techniques for Non-exponentially Decaying Reverberation
12:10 Wardle, Scott 
A Hilbert-Transformer Frequency Shifter for Audio
12:30 Beltrán, Fernando A.; Beltrán, José Ramón; Arregui, Javier; Gracia, Belén 
A Real-Time DSP-based Reverberation System with Computer Interface
12:50 POSTER SESSION 1
Bogaards, Niels 
Digital Filtering for Musicians 

Garcia Escudero, Juan 
Sound Generation with Aperiodic Ordered Systems 

Loscos, Alex; Resina, Eduard 
SMSPerformer: A real-time synthesis interface for SMS 

Cano, Pedro 
Fundamental Frequency Estimation in the SMS analysis 

Reyes, Juan; Lawson, Cynthia 
A Proposal for using SMS for Expression Modeling 

13:30 LUNCH TIME
PAPER SESSION 3:  AUDIO CODING
15:00 Erne,Markus 
Digital Audio Compression Algorithms
15:30 Scheirer,Eric D.; Huopaniemi, Jyri; Väänänen, Riitta 
AudioBIFS: The MPEG-4 Standard for Effects Processing
16:00 Erne,Markus 
Embedded Audio Compression using Wavelets and improved Psychoacoustic Models
16:20 5m. PAUSE
PAPER SESSION 4:  APPLICATIONS
16:25 Todoroff, Todor 
Some applications of digital Audio Processing in composing electroacustic music for dance
16:45 Risset,Jean-Claude 
Examples of the musical use of digital audio effects
17:15 Roads, Curtis 
Micro-sound: history and illusion
17:45 Geslin, Yann 
Sound and Music transformation environments : a 20 years experiment at the french Groupe de Recherches Musicales
18:15 COCKTAIL
19:30 CONCERT(SalaHAL Activities)
Dance of Stone, (1997-98), Teruyoshi Kamiya 
Menstruació 1998, Eduard Resina 
Half-life (1998) , Curtis Roads 
Invisible, Jean-Claude Risset
Friday November 20th 
PAPER SESSION 5:  SYNTHESIS (I)
10:00 Cook, Perry R. 
Toward the Perfect Audio Morph? Singing Voice Synthesis and Processing
10:30 Evangelista, Gianpaolo; Cavaliere, Sergio 
Dispersive and Pitch-Synchronous Processing of Sounds
10:50 Metois,Eric 
Musical Gestures and Audio Effects Processing
11:10 COFFEE BREAK
PAPER SESSION 6:  SYNTHESIS (II)
11:30 Rowlands, Robert Lewis 
Sonic Screwdrivers: Sound as a Sculptural Process
11:50 Wehn, Kaare 
Using Ideas from Natural Selection to Evolve Synthesized Sounds
12:10 Ystad, Sølvi; Guillemain, Philippe; Kronland-Martinet, Richard 
Sound Modeling from the Analysis of Real Sounds
12:30 POSTER SESSION 2
Rossell Turull, Ivana; Barti, Robert 
Design and implementation of a 3-D sound system based on the HRTF 
 
Jordá, Sergi; Aguilar, Toni 
FMOL: a graphical and net oriented approach to interactive sonic composition and real-time synthesis for low cost computer systems 

Guerra, Esther 
VowSynth: A Synthesizer of Vowel Sounds Based on Additive Synthesis 

Farina, Angelo; Ugolotti, Emanuele 
Numerical model of the sound field inside cars for the creation of virtual audible reconstructions 

López, Jose Javier; González, Alberto 
Software Toolbox for Multichannel Sound Reproduction 
 

13:30 LUNCH TIME
PAPER SESSION 7:  SPATIALIZATION (I)
15:00 Malham, David G 
Sound Spatialisation
15:30 Dindart,Jean-François; Sémidor, Catherine 
Generalizing the Reflection Model by the Use of a Particle Tracing Method
15:50 Pachet, François; Delerue, Olivier 
Constraint-Based Spatialization
16:10 Pernaux, Jean-Marie; Boussard, Patrick; Jot, Jean-Marc 
Virtual Sound Source Positioning and Mixing in 5.1 - Implementation on the Real-Time System Genesis
16:30 COFFEE BREAK
PAPER SESSION 8:  SPATIALIZATION (II)
16:50 Pottier, Laurent 
Dynamical spatialisation of sounds. HOLOPHON: a graphical and algorithmical editor for S1
17:10 Nicol, Rozenn; Emerit, Marc 
Reproducing 3D-Sound for Videoconferencing: a comparison between Holophony and Ambisonic
PAPER SESSION 9:  SOFTWARE
17:30 Arfib, Daniel 
Different ways to write digital audio effects programs
17:50 Bernardini, Nicola; Rocchesso, Davide 
Making Sounds with Numbers: A Tutorial on Music Software Dedicated to Digital Audio
18:10 Febrer, Miquel; Febrer, Albert; Bonafonte, Antonio, Esquerra, Ignasi 
Aneto: a tool for prosody analysis of speech
20:30 Banquet (PALAUET LUCA. Enrique Granados, 23)  
There will be a concert before the dinner: 
Xtrapolución#4 (1998), Joan Sanmarti 
El doble (No. 1) (1998), Jorge Sad (premiere)
Saturday November 21st
PAPER SESSION 10:  SPECTRAL PROCESSING (I)
10:00 Di Federico, Riccardo 
Waveform Preserving Time Stretching and Pitch Shifting for Sinusoidal Models of Sound
10:20 Verma, Tony S.; Meng, Teresa H.Y. 
Time Scale Modification Using a Sines+Transients+Noise Signal Model
10:40 Amatriain, Xavier; Bonada, Jordi; Serra, Xavier 
Metrix: A Musical Data Definition Language and Data Structure for a Spectral Modeling Based Synthesizer
11:00 COFFEE BREAK
PAPER SESSION 11:  SPECTRAL PROCESSING (II)
11:20 Marchand, Sylvain 
Improving Spectral Analysis Precision with an Enhanced Phase Vocoder using Signal Derivatives
11:40 Masri, Paul; Canagarajah, Nishan 
Extracting More Detail from the Spectrum with Phase Distortion Analysis
12:00 Peeters, Geoffroy; Rodet, Xavier 
Signal Characterization in terms of Sinusoidal and Non-Sinusoidal Components
12:20 Resina Bertran, Eduard 
SMS Composer and SMS Conductor: Applications for Spectral Modeling Synthesis Composition and Performance
12:40 POSTER SESSION 3
Herrera, Perfecto; Bonada, Jordi 
Vibrato extraction and parameterization in the Spectral Modeling Synthesis framework 

Sánchez Marcos, Ignacio; Bescós Cano, Jesús 
Software modules for HRTF based dynamic spatialisation 

Traube, Caroline; Todoroff, Todor; Douniaux, Laurent 
MoveInSpace : a trajectories generator 

Marti Perez, Francesc ; Lopez Abad, Daniel; Resina, Eduard. 
Vocem: An Application for Real-Time Granular Synthesis 

Macias, Bernardo 
SMS3d: An application for the visualization of SMS data 

13:30 LUNCH TIME
PAPER SESSION 12:  SPECTRAL PROCESSING (III)
15:00 Serra, Xavier; Bonada, Jordi 
Sound Transformations Based on the SMS High Level Attributes
15:20 Tintis, Raffaele de; Cospito, Giovanni 
Morph: Timbre Hybridization Tools Based on Frequency Domain Processing
15:40 COFFEE BREAK
PAPER SESSION 13:  HARDWARE
16:00 Zölzer, Udo 
Audio Processing Systems
16:30 Casajús-Quirós, Francisco J. 
Digital Signal Processors for real-time audio processing
17:00 Hoge, Steve 
FX8010 - A DSP Chip Architecture for Audio Effects

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