Revision as of 15:36, 7 January 2008

Chavín de Huántar Archaeological 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
• Julius O. 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