Speakers
John Bassett
John Bassett is a producer, engineer and acoustician based in Sydney. He currently teaches the Masters of Music Studies (Creative Sound Production) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as well as part of the production team at the Sydney Opera House and studying towards his phd at the University of Sydney as part of the Architecture and Audio Acoustics department.
Damian Castaldi
Damian Castaldi is a freelance sound designer and composer. He works independently and in co-partnership with Solange Kershaw for 'sodacake'. He currently teaches Audio Production, at UTS.
Densil Cabrera
Dr Densil Cabrera is a senior lecturer in audio and acoustics in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning , University of Sydney. He is the head of the Acoustics Research Laboratory, and the coordinator of the Graduate Audio and Acoustics program.
He did his PhD in psychoacoustics at the University of Sydney. Earlier degrees include a Master of Arts (University of Technology, Sydney), Graduate Diploma in Communication (University of Technology, Sydney) and Bachelor of Music (University of Sydney). He is the original author of the computer program PsySound, which is for the analysis of sound recordings using acoustical and psychoacoustical methods. He has done work in sound art, especially in art gallery-based sound installations.
Current and recent research projects have been in applications of psychoacoustical models, opera singer vocal quality, auditory spatial perception, room acoustical quality, and auditory display. Research collaborations have been with other faculties, other universities in Sydney, and universities in Japan, Korea and Italy.
He has been involved in consulting projects in areas such as acoustics education, auditory display design, building acoustics and auditorium acoustics. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society, and is involved in the Sydney section organising committee and the Technical Committee on Human Factors in Audio Systems. He is a member of the Australian Acoustical Society. He represents the University of Sydney in standards development in the area of architectural acoustics.
Theo van Leeuwen
Before becoming an academic, Theo van Leeuwen worked as a film and television producer, scriptwriter and director in his native Holland and in Australia. He studied linguistics and semiotics at Macquarie and Sydney University and at the CETSAS in Paris.
He has worked at Macquarie University, the University of the Arts (London), and Cardiff University, and lectured at many other Universities throughout the world. He is now Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, UTS. He has written many books and articles on discourse analysis, visual communication and multimodality. His most recent book is Introducing Social Semiotics (Routledge, 2005) and he is currently working on Global Media Discourse, to be published with Routledge in 2007. He is also editor of the journal Visual Communication.