The latest issue of the Computer Music Journal (MIT Press) includes an article on the Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format (SpatDIF) by Nils Peters, Trond Lossius, and Jan Schacher, entitled “The Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format: Principles, Specification, and Examples”.

The paper SpatDIF: Principles, specification, and examples by Nils Peters , Jan Schacher & Trond Lossius will be presented at Sound and Music Computing Conference 2012 in Copenhagen.

SpatDIF, the Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format, offers a semantic and syntactic specification for storing and transmitting spatial audio scene descriptions. The paper provides an overview of the specification and discuss two use cases.

The paper An Automated Testing Suite for Computer Music Environments by Nils Peters , Trond Lossius & Tim Place will be presented at Sound and Music Computing Conference 2012 in Copenhagen.

Software development benefits from systematic testing with respect to implementation, optimization, and maintenance. The paper reports on how automated testing is implemented and used for Jamoma to test C++ code as well as Max externals and patches.

Alogs new album “Unemployed” is now out in all formats. 4xLP, CD, iTunes. Alog Unemployed is supported by and recorded at BEK.

The exhibition on Sonic Interaction Design is accompanied by a catalogue. The catalogue presents information about the exhibition, all featured works, the people behind them and includes a wealth of images and illustrations.

This book by Davide Rocchesso reports on the many research activities carried out as part of the four year COST Action on Sonic Interaction Design (SID). Frauke Behrendt and Trond Lossius has contributed a chapter on the SID exhibition.

A paper on Jamoma Audio Graph, a framework for audio processing, by Tim Place (74 Objects LLC, US), Trond Lossius (BEK) and Nils Peters (McGill University, CIRMMT, Ca) is presented at DAFx-10 13th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects.

The mail archives of the Max mailing list for the years 1997-1999 have been restored and are now available at the BEK server.

http://max-archive.bek.no