| Year |
Month |
Day |
# |
City |
State |
Country |
Heyser Lecture |
| 2026 |
Oct. |
31 |
161st |
Nashville |
TN |
USA |
Marina Bosi – Making Every Bit Count –
From Psychoacoustics to the Technologies That Enabled the Digital Music Revolution |
| 2026 |
May |
28 |
160th |
Copenhagen |
|
Denmark |
Dorte Hammershøi – From Head-Related Transfer Functions to Risk of Damage and Hearing Rehabilitation |
| 2025 |
Oct. |
24 |
159th |
Long Beach |
CA |
USA |
Sean Olive – Make Audio Great Always: Using Science for Consistent Quality |
| 2025 |
May |
28 |
158th |
Warsaw |
|
Poland |
Jüergen Herre – It’s All About Perception – A Personal Research Journey |
| 2024 |
Oct. |
9 |
157th |
New York |
NY |
USA |
Anthony Agnello & Richard Factor – Doohickii Digitali Redux |
| 2024 |
June |
16 |
156th |
Madrid |
|
Spain |
Xavier Serra – From Audio Processing to Music Understanding‚ a Research Journey |
| 2023 |
May |
14 |
154th |
Helsinki |
|
Finland |
Jamie Angus-Whiteoak – The Ear is not a Fourier Transformer |
| 2023 |
Oct. |
26 |
155th |
New York |
NY |
USA |
Richard King – Sound and Enlightenment: A series of eye (and ear) opening events linking sound recording theory and practice |
| 2022 |
May |
8 |
152nd |
Den Haag |
|
Netherlands |
Diemer de Vries – Wave Field Synthesis – Just A Wave … or a Durable Synthesizer in the Audio Field? (Virtual) |
| 2022 |
Oct. |
19 |
153rd |
New York |
NY |
USA |
Gilbert Soulodre – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Heyser Lecture – The Twists and Turns of a Career in Audio |
| 2021 |
May |
27 |
150th |
Amsterdam |
|
Netherlands |
Diana Deutsch – Two Perceptual Puzzles: Audio Illusions and Perfect Pitch (Virtual) |
| 2021 |
Oct. |
22 |
151st |
New York |
NY |
USA |
John M. Chowning – Part 2: Implementing FM Sound Synthesis (Virtual) |
| 2020 |
June |
2 |
148th |
Vienna |
|
Austria |
Francis Rumsey – Sound Quality in the Era of Interaction and Extended Reality (Virtual) |
| 2020 |
Oct. |
27 |
149th |
New York |
NY |
USA |
John M. Chowning – Realizing a Dream, a Discovery and Lisajous Figures (Virtual) |
| 2019 |
Mar. |
21 |
146th |
Dublin |
|
Ireland |
David Griesinger – Learning to Listen |
| 2019 |
Oct. |
17 |
147th |
New York |
NY |
USA |
Louis Fielder – Psychoacoustics Applied to Dynamic-Range and Nonlinear-Distortion Assessment |
| 2018 |
May |
24 |
144th |
Milan |
|
Italy |
Malcolm Hawksford – Understanding high quality audio, a personal journey |
| 2018 |
Oct. |
19 |
145th |
New York |
NY |
USA |
John Meyer – Taking the Room Out of the Loudspeaker: New Tools for Transparent Reproduction |
| 2017 |
May |
21 |
142nd |
Berlin |
|
Germany |
Jorg Sennheiser – A historic journey in audio-reality: from mono to AMBEO |
| 2017 |
Oct. |
18 |
143rd |
New York |
NY |
USA |
Leslie Ann Jones – Paying Attention |
| 2016 |
June |
4 |
140th |
Paris |
|
France |
Rozenn Nicol – The Immersive Audio Revolution: From Labs to Mass-Market |
| 2016 |
Sept. |
29 |
141st |
Los Angeles |
CA |
USA |
Dave Smith – Synthesizers: From Analog to Digital to Software to Analog |
| 2015 |
May |
9 |
138th |
Warsaw |
|
Poland |
Ilpo Martikainen – Monitoring Loudspeakers, Can They Be Truthful Quality Control Tools? |
| 2015 |
Oct. |
29 |
139th |
New York |
NY |
USA |
Bruce Koenig – Acoustic Forensic Gunshot Analysis, The Kennedy Assassination and Beyond |
| 2014 |
April |
26 |
136th |
Berlin |
|
Germany |
Dietrich Schüller – Preserving our sound recordings – 25 years since everything changed |
| 2014 |
Oct. |
10 |
137th |
Los Angeles |
CA |
USA |
Marty O’Donnell – The Ear Doesnt Blink: Creating Culture With Adaptive Audio |
| 2013 |
May |
4 |
134th |
Rome |
|
Italy |
Wolfgang Klippel – Small, Loud-Speakers: Taking Physics to the Limit |
| 2013 |
Oct. |
17 |
135th |
New York |
NY |
USA |
George Massenburg – 4-44 & Me, Stagnation to Transformation: The Real Future of Music |
| 2012 |
April |
28 |
132nd |
Budapest |
|
Hungary |
Graham Blyth – In Pursuit of Elegant Simplicity: Life, Luck, and Learning in Music and Audio |
| 2012 |
Oct. |
27 |
133rd |
San Francisco |
CA |
USA |
James J. Johnston – Audio, Radio, Acoustics and Signal Processing‚ the Way Forward |
| 2011 |
May |
14 |
130th |
London |
|
UK |
Karlheinz Brandenburg – How to Provide High Quality Audio Everywhere |
| 2011 |
Oct. |
21 |
131st |
New York |
NY |
USA |
John Atkinson – Where Did the Negative Frequencies Go? |
| 2010 |
May |
23 |
128th |
London |
|
UK |
Brian C. J. Moore – Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids |
| 2010 |
Nov. |
5 |
129th |
San Francisco |
CA |
USA |
Ben Burtt – The Sound Behind The Image |
| 2009 |
May |
7 |
126th |
Munich |
|
Germany |
Gunnar Rasmussen – The Reproduction of Sound Starts at the Microphone |
| 2009 |
Oct. |
11 |
127th |
New York |
NY |
USA |
Phil Ramone – Technology and Music Meet Again |
| 2008 |
May |
18 |
124th |
Amsterdam |
|
Netherlands |
Guus Berkhout – The Big Challenges in Audio, a glance into the future |
| 2008 |
Oct. |
3 |
125th |
San Francisco |
CA |
USA |
Floyd Toole – Sound Reproduction: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go |
| 2007 |
May |
6 |
122nd |
Vienna |
|
Austria |
Gerhard Steinke – What is needed to have the Audio-Eldorado at home? |
| 2007 |
Oct. |
6 |
123rd |
New York |
NY |
USA |
Leo Beranek – Aspects Of Concert Hall Acoustics |
| 2006 |
May |
21 |
120th |
Paris |
|
France |
Jim Flanagan – Spatially-Selective Sound Capture |
| 2006 |
Oct. |
6 |
121st |
San Francisco |
CA |
USA |
Julius O. Smith III – History and Practice in Digital Sound Synthesis |
| 2005 |
May |
29 |
118th |
Barcelona |
|
Spain |
Stanley P. Lipshitz – The Rise of Digital Audio: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly |
| 2005 |
Oct. |
8 |
119th |
New York |
NY |
USA |
Jozef J. Zwislocki – Sound Transmission and Analysis in the Ear – Recent Insights |
| 2004 |
May |
9 |
116th |
Berlin |
|
Germany |
Kees A. Schouhamer Immink – From Analog to Digital |
| 2004 |
Oct. |
30 |
117th |
San Francisco |
CA |
USA |
Walter Murch – Edison’s First Sound Film and the Three Fathers of Cinema |
| 2003 |
Mar. |
23 |
114th |
Amsterdam |
|
Netherlands |
Jens Blauert – Communication Acoustics: Audio Goes Cognitive |
| 2003 |
Oct. |
11 |
115th |
New York |
NY |
USA |
Ray Kurzweil – The Future of Music in the Age of Spiritual Machines |
| 2002 |
May |
11 |
112th |
Munich |
|
Germany |
Jim West – Modern Electret Microphones and Their Applications |
| 2002 |
Oct. |
7 |
113th |
Los Angeles |
CA |
USA |
Ray Dolby – Some Musings on Progress in Audio: A Quest for Better Sound at Affordable Prices |
| 2001 |
May |
13 |
110th |
Amsterdam |
|
Netherlands |
Manfred Schroeder – The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Audio |
| 2001 |
Dec. |
2 |
111th |
New York |
NY |
USA |
Per Bruel – Acoustics in Small Studios |
| 2000 |
Feb. |
21 |
108th |
Paris |
|
France |
James A. Moorer – Audio in the New Millennium |
| 2000 |
Sept. |
24 |
109th |
Los Angeles |
CA |
USA |
Alan Kay – The Computer Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet |
| 1999 |
Sept. |
25 |
107th |
New York |
NY |
USA |
Roger Lagadec – Digital Audio and the Challenge of the Internet |
