Surround Sound Master Class by Paul Geluso :: December 10 and 17, 2008; 6:30-9:30 pm :: Harvestworks, 596 Broadway #602, NYC.

For many years, artists had to bring their own equipment when they wanted to present multichannel sound works. Even a simple 4-channel (“quad”) installation required you to patch two stereo systems together, and you had to play your material from a computer to make sure the audio is in sync. With the advent of 5.1 Surround Sound, to be distributed on DVD, this changed profoundly. If your artistic project could work within the Surround Sound environment, you could just author a DVD with your surround audio or video piece, and ship it off to the gallery or presentation space to make it work. Of course, if your piece exceeds the 5 channel + subwoofer requirements you still have to look for other options, but the 5.1 standard allowed many artists easier production and presentation of multichannel works than before.

If you’re interested in Surround Sound for your artistic projects, we offer an three-night Surround Master Class with our engineer Paul Geluso, who is working on these issues for many, many years.

The class will give an overview of the techniques to record, create and mix multichannel sound works that fall within the 5.1 parameters. He will also explain how to handle projects that go beyond these limitations, e.g. if you like to work with 8-channel installations or more. The class will explore surround sound for artistic projects, but also if you use it within a film/video context, where you mix the dialogue in the center speaker, and the ambient sound into the surrounding speakers. Finally the class will focus on how to create a DVD with your work.

The class includes 4hrs of lab time in our surround sound studio, during open hours Mon – Fri 10am to 5pm.