Three women meet Happiness

Τhree women were travelling when suddenly they saw a large pit on the road. Looking at the pit they discovered that Happiness was trapped in it. The first woman became excited seeing Happiness and said:
- Happiness, I want you to make me beautiful.
At once she transformed into a very beautiful woman, so she left being happy.

Grateful for the Semester

The Semester comes to the end in a month from now, and we have a lot of work to do. Some of it looks very pleasant to me and some looks the opposite. But all the work must be done and completed as soon as possible, so as not to be in a hurry at the last moment.

Two days ago we formally presented our Research Plans and Results for the AAV Research Methods Module, and it was a quite stressfull experience, as many of the students had to speak in front of an audience in a different language for the first time. Every group had prepared something interesting and their presentations were educational. At the end, we all seemed to be relieved and on our toes to relax. I hope tutors also enjoyed the procedure and our appearance, too.

Fortunate Sons in Digital Studio Production

The setting up of microphones and musician’ s instruments and peripherals begun at 9.00 in the morning and we started recording at around 10.00, on Friday, 3^rd, December. After six hours we had eight fully recorded songs on a Pro Tools session. Each of the three students of our group would select one song to mix it on a 5.1 and stereo version.

The band we recorded is called Fortunate Sons and they are four musicians: drummer, baser, guitarist and singer; they play old time classic and well known reggae and rock songs. They were very well organised and communicative during the recording procedure. All musicians of the group were experienced in the recording procedure and they knew their songs very well.

Welcome 3D Sound Sphere

3D Sound Sphere is an audio reproduction system with multiple speakers arranged spherically, where sound transmission is centripetal and listening point is the center of a ball. As a result, listener lies on a sound environment of perfect symmetry.

Once it had been accomplished, operated and listened by its constructors, they did become very impressed. So, the only thing that had left to do was to find out what other people would think about it. 3DSS construction was presented at the 1rst Hellenic Patent Exhibition in Athens, on November 24, 2010, and it approves that this application has a lot of audio interest. By the end of exhibition, the inventors were determined that 3D Sound Sphere can offer too many perspectives in music and sound reproduction area. Thereby, the achievement of their goal added up to more purposes.

The Power of a 3D Sound Sphere

3D Sound Sphere was released at the first Hellenic Patent Exhibition in Athens on November 24rth, 2010. Pavlos Tripodakis and Giorgios Konstantinidis are the pioneers of this construction. More than 3.500 people witnessed this 3DSS experience during those three days of exposure of Sphere to the public, from 24/11 to 28/11.
The application of 3D Sound Sphere represents the idea of global centripetal audio transmission. It is inspired by sphere’s geometric shape. The creation of this application resolved one significant question: As humans are able to listen to three dimensions, how would they listen if they were in the center of a sound ball?

An optional questionnaire with 3 questions was given to the audience after getting out of Sound Sphere, for statistical purposes. Its questions and results are presented below:

Real World’s Soundscape Approach

In the beginning was sound. Then some beings from earth began attempting to record and reproduce it. A number of devices appeared in late of 1800, but phonograph or gramophone became the most known recording and reproducing devices from 1920 until the end of World War II [1].

Social Media’s Impact in AV Indusry

Audiovisual (AV) industry involves a wide range of applications. Hardware equipment like Displays, Projector Screens, Projection Lamps, Sound Systems, Remote Control Systems, Speakers, Theatre Systems, AV Furniture [1]; public  projection of motion pictures buildings and media like Movie/Picture/Film Theaters, Cinemas, Television; film related professions and industries like Film Producers, Film Studios, Film Festivals, Screenwriters, Film Directors, Anime Designers, Actors, Film Personnel; software  content like Movies, Advertisements, Animation Films, Documentaries and Music Clips.