Sound engineering as our commitment to its creators in Poland

Bożena Kostek; Andrzej Czyżewski

doi:10.24425/aoa.2019.129274

Sound engineering as our commitment to its creators in Poland

Abstract

Sound engineering is an interdisciplinary and rapidly expanding domain. It covers many aspects, such as sound perception, studio and sound mastering technology, music information retrieval including content-based search systems and automatic music transcription frameworks, sound synthesis, sound restoration, electroacoustics, and other ones constituting multimedia technology. Moreover, machine learning methods applied to the topics mentioned above become a substantial part of sound engineering. The state-of-the-art of these topics is shortly covered by this talk. History of the development of sound engineering within the last decades is briefly outlined. A contribution of Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT) pioneering researchers to the development of sound engineering is shortly characterized. A decisive influence of Professors Sankiewicz’s and Budzyński’s initiative and achievements on the growth of the Multimedia Systems Department and Audio Acoustics Laboratory of Gdańsk University of Technology is demonstrated. Some key events concerning founding the Polish Section of the Audio Engineering Society are also recalled.