Chavin
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Chavín de Huántar Archeological Acoustics Project
Acoustic Measurement, Archiving, Analysis and Modeling, and Simulation/Installation
Co-investigators:
- John Rick, PhD, Professor, Stanford University, Archaeology/Anthropology
- Julius O. Smith, PhD, Professor, Stanford University, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)/Electrical Engineering (by courtesy)
- Jonathan S. Abel, PhD, Consulting Professor, Stanford University, CCRMA
- Patty Huang, MA, Graduate Student, Stanford University, CCRMA
- Miriam Kolar, MFA, Graduate Student, Stanford University, CCRMA
Coordinator:
- John Chowning, DMA, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, CCRMA/Music
Local collaborators: •(Museum director)
Team Background:
- John Rick has been heading excavations and directing research at the Chavín site since 1995
- Digital waveguide techniques were pioneered at CCRMA by Julius O. Smith III; Smith and Jonathan S. Abel have been working together on acoustic array processing and related problems since 1985
- Patty Huang is a 4th year graduate student working under Abel on physical modeling of reverberant spaces
- Miriam Kolar is a 2nd year graduate student with extensive field experience in recording engineering
- John Chowning is a composer having long standing interest in spatial modeling
- CCRMA has expertise in field measurements, psychoacoustics, digital signal processing, and artificial reverberation
