Chavin

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