These sessions will run in parallel with paper sessions. A number of sound demonstrations from the seminars will be repeated in the conference listening room, along with additional contributions. This room will also be acoustically treated to a high standard and will provide an opportunity for small groups to listen to selected sound demonstrations under more critical conditions.

Thursday 21st June

• Mixing within a 5.1 Surround Sound Environment to Enhance a Pure Acoustic Recording and to Better Replicate Real Acoustic Instruments Using a MIDI Sound Source
  Robert Jay Ellis-Geiger, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK

• Countertenor with Baroque Ensemble in Five-Channel Surround
  Jason Corey, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and Johanne Goyette, ATMA classique, Outremont, Quebec, Canada

Friday 22nd June

• Distance, Depth, and Hall Impression in 5.1 Surround Mixing
  David Griesinger, Lexicon, Boston, MA, USA

• Advanced Mixing Techniques for Multichannel Sound
  Ulrich Horbach and Renato S. Pellegrini, Studer Professional Audio AG, Regensdorf, Switzerland

• A Challenge to the Multichannel Sound
  Akira Fukada, Japan Broadcast Corporation, Nagareyama, Chiba, Japan

• Multichannel Sound Recording of Music: Practical and Technical Aspects
  Kimio Hamasaki, NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratory, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Saturday 23nd June

• Premises for the Utilization of a Variable, Discrete 5.1 Main Microphone
  Paul Lentzen, SPL electronics GmbH, Niederkruechten, Germany

• Practical Experience Five-Channel Recording Techniques for Classical Music
  Everett Porter, Polyhymnia International, Baarn, The Netherlands

• Practical Surround Sound Production, Part 1: Radio Drama
  Mick Sawaguchi, NHK, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan; and Florian Camerer, Ostereichischer Rundfunk (ORF), Vienna, Austria

• Practical Surround Sound Production, Part 2: TV Documentary
  Florian Camerer, Ostereichischer Rundfunk (ORF), Vienna, Austria; and Mick Sawaguchi, NHK, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

• Methods for Processing Stereo Music Recordings for Consumer 3/2 Surround Playback
  Roger W. Dressler, Dolby Laboratories, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA

Sunday 24th June

• Second Thoughts on Multichannel (3/2) Stereophony
  Cornelis H. van der Gragt, Music Recording Dept., Royal Conservatory of Music, The Hague, The Netherlands

• Mixing Techniques for Surround
  George Massenburg, GML, North Hollywood, CA, USA; and Michael Bishop, Telarc International Corporation, Cleveland, OH, USA