United Nations General Assembly Hall, 🇺🇸 United Nations Security Council Hall, ACOUSTICS and SOUND SYSTEM

 United Nations General Assembly Hall, 🇺🇸

United Nations Security Council Hall

ACOUSTICS and SOUND SYSTEM

(Checking out UN's acoustics and sound systems)

"VCA (Video Corporation of America) is a global technology integrator. VCA was selected to install a variety of AV products into the large remodeled meeting space of the United Nations.  This room is extremely vital to operations due to its deliberative, policymaking and representative nature. Heads of state routinely meet in this space, countless news outlets broadcast these meetings around the world.

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Because of the historical nature of the room, the remodel was done to preserve the original look of the space. To the naked eye it appears almost identical to how it looked prior to the renovation. The layout of the room includes approximately 500 delegate microphone seats, and an additional 1500 listen-only seats. The project required the integrated systems to support the organization’s campus wide systems; and also provide feeds to major news outlets. This was accomplished via leveraging both broadcast and professional audio-video technology solutions to work as one.

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The United Nations audio systems contain products from QSC Q-sys, Yamaha Corporation CL-series used for mixing, processing and video conferencing, TAIDEN HCS 8300-series for Congress Microphone and Simultaneous Interpretation, Renkus-Heinz, Inc. ICII-R steerable arrays and Bag End subwoofers for room sound re-enforcement. The PureLink PM-series routers provided transport and stereo audio feeds into QSC. QSC and Taiden are redundantly linked via analog and AES audio while QSC and Yamaha are digitally linked directly via a 64×64 Dante™ audio transport bridge. QSC Q-sys campus wide audio network provides 16-channel program audio directly into the centralized broadcast router and embedded into the HD-SDI stream." - https://lnkd.in/eRj5GJCE , Bag End Press

"In the second half of 2014, the TAIDEN conference system equipment of the eight conference rooms including the United General Assembly Hall in the second phase of the United Nations Headquarters Project was installed and put into use. So far, the TAIDEN conference system equipment of 18 conference halls (rooms) of the United Nations Headquarters project, including the United General Assembly Hall and the Security Council Conference Hall, has been installed and put into use.

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The continuous, low-volume sound enables people to hear a clear direct sound in every position of the venue, and it is not easy to produce a howling sound. When using headphones to listen to the simultaneous interpretation, the original sound will not affect the simultaneous interpretation voice, and it will be difficult to hear. 

" - https://lnkd.in/ezazKH6d , Taiden

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Day 03 - 153rd Audio Engineering Convention, New York, 2022 - Homemade Tribute Aftermovie

153rd Audio Engineering Convention, New York, 2022 - Audio Engineering Society: Day 03 00:00:33 Real-Time Parallel DSP Processing on GPUs: An Introduction - Very short excerpt - https://aesfallconvention2022.sched.com/event/1CX3K/real-time-parallel-dsp-processing-on-gpus-an-introduction?iframe=no GPU Audio 00:00:42 Teaching AI to hear like we do: psychoacoustics in machine learning - Very short excerpt - https://aesfallconvention2022.sched.com/event/1Ay8V/teaching-ai-to-hear-like-we-do-psychoacoustics-in-machine-learning?iframe=no AES Technical Committee on Machine Learning and Artifical Intelligence [TC-MLAI] #audioengineering #aesnyc #audio

Birdland Jazz Club, New York City - Wednesday Night jazz: Frank Vignola’s Guitar Night

Birdland Jazz Club, New York City - Wednesday Night jazz: Frank Vignola’s Guitar Night in the Theater + Special Guest Henry Acker "BIRDLAND HISTORY Ever since most of Chicago’s top musicians moved to New York in the mid-to-late 1920s, New York City has been the Jazz Mecca. Nearly every major jazz style of the past seventy years has been initiated in the Big Apple. It was Charlie Parker, familiarly known to his fans and fellow musicians as “Bird,” a contraction of Yardbird, his formal nickname, who was the dynamic creative personality and genius of the alto saxophone who served as the inspiration for Birdland. The Early Days of Jazz in NYC When the original Birdland opened in December of 1949, Charlie Parker was the headliner and the club was located on Broadway, a block west of the 52nd Street scene, which was a hotbed of jazz in the 1930s and 40s. Miraculously, just as the scene on 52nd Street caved in, Birdland was born and quickly came to prominence. For the next fifteen years, the club’s survival formula was built upon memorable double and triple bills, commencing at 9 p.m. and sometimes lasting ’til dawn. In addition to Bird, many jazz legends were regulars at the club. Count Basie and his smokin’ big band made Birdland their New York headquarters, eventually recording George Shearing’s “Lullaby of Birdland” live at the club. John Coltrane’s classic Quartet regularly appeared at the club in the early 1960s, recording “Live at Birdland.” And the famous DJ, Symphony Sid Torin made a name for himself broadcasting live from the club to radio listeners up and down the eastern seaboard. ... Birdland’s booking history reads like a who’s who of jazz: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bud Powell, Stan Getz, Lester Young, Erroll Garner, and many, many others. Considering the excitement that Birdland generated on a daily basis, it’s no surprise that the club attracted its share of celebrities. Regulars to the nightly festivities included such household names as Gary Cooper, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Joe Louis, Marlene Dietrich, Ava Gardner, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Sugar Ray Robinson. ... But as a new popular music, Rock & Roll emerged, Birdland’s fortunes declined in the 60’s and its doors were closed on Broadway and 52nd in 1965. After many 5 am nights, the club needed to take a nap. ... Now, half a century later, the Birdland banner has been reborn in midtown and called, “close to perfection for serious fans and musicians,” by The New York Times. After a decade of neighborhood success on the Upper West Side, John decided to move the club back to Midtown. The new Birdland offers top-flight jazz in a world class setting, good sight lines and acoustics, elbow room, and an award-winning menu featuring American cuisine with a Cajun flair. Modern Jazz in Manhattan Since the reemergence of the club, midtown Manhattan has been treated to some of the best jazz on the planet, including memorable sets by such musicians as Oscar Peterson, Pat Metheny, Diana Krall, Roy Haynes, Michel Legrand, Dave Brubeck, Pat Martino, Tony Williams, Hank Jones, Michel Petrucciani, Maynard Ferguson, Freddie Hubbard, Marian McPartland, John Pizzarelli, Kurt Elling, Joe Lovano, McCoy Tyner, Michael Brecker, Clark Terry, Ron Carter, Jon Hendricks, George Shearing, James Moody, Yellowjackets, John Scofield, Phoebe Snow, Dave Holland, and Tito Puente, as well as the big bands of Chico O’Farrill, Duke Ellington, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Maria Schneider. In addition, Birdland is home to such popular musical events as the Umbria Jazz Festival in NYC and the Annual Django Reinhardt NY Festival. Over the past two decades, Birdland has expanded it’s musical outreach with the Broadway at Birdland concert series, shining a spotlight on Chita Rivera, Liza Minnelli, Michael Feinstein, Betty Buckley, Christine Ebersole, Barbara Cook, Ariana DeBose, Glenn Close, Melissa Manchester, and thousands more. Jim Caruso’s Cast Party, our weekly impromptu variety show, has helped make Birdland the late-night place to rub shoulders with show folk every Monday since 2004. And the 2018 addition of the state-of-the-art Birdland Theater has made it possible to include Broadway superstars, burlesque, comedy, cabaret divas, jazz legends and the most buzzed-about up-and-comers to our schedule. Since 1949, Birdland has established itself as an essential part of New York City culture and musical history." - https://birdlandjazz.com/history/ "It’s the best jazz guitar lover’s show in the world, celebrating all facets of the guitar in jazz. Frank Vignola’s virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world’s top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, Tommy Emmanuel, the Boston and New York Pops, and more.." - https://birdlandjazz.com/event/frank-vignolas-guitar-night-in-the-theater-6/ #jazz #newyork #jazzclub

153rd Audio Engineering Convention, New York, 2022 - Homemade Tribute Aftermovie: Days 01 and 02

153rd Audio Engineering Convention, New York, 2022 - Audio Engineering Society: Days 01 and 02 00:00:29 Spatial Resolution in Immersive Productions - Excerpt - https://aesfallconvention2022.sched.com/event/1Ay7L/spatial-resolution-in-immersive-productions?iframe=no Lasse Nipkow CEO, Silent Work GmbH 00:00:57 The Art Of Immersive Audio Productions - artistic opportunities - Excerpt - https://aesfallconvention2022.sched.com/event/1Cmt0/the-art-of-immersive-audio-productions-artistic-opportunities?iframe=no Herbert Waltl CEO & senior producer, media HYPERIUM 00:01:08 Binaural rendering of audio signals using waveform-based acoustic panning - Excerpt - https://aesfallconvention2022.sched.com/event/1B2HL/binaural-rendering-of-audio-signals-using-waveform-based-acoustic-panning?iframe=no Masayuki Nishiguchi Professor, Akita Prefectural University 00:01:16 Real-time spatialization via Eigen decomposition of head-related transfer functions - Excerpt - https://aesfallconvention2022.sched.com/event/1B2HP/real-time-spatialization-via-eigen-decomposition-of-head-related-transfer-functions?iframe=no Juan Camilo Arevalo Arboleda Student, University of Aizu 00:01:42 Combining Deep Learning and Web Audio for Automated Real-time Audio Speech Production - Excerpt - https://aesfallconvention2022.sched.com/event/1B0vg/combining-deep-learning-and-web-audio-for-automated-real-time-audio-speech-production?iframe=no Tor Sigvardson Audio Engineer, Sveriges Radio 00:01:52 Reverse Engineering Memoryless Distortion Effects with Differentiable Waveshapers - Excerpt- https://aesfallconvention2022.sched.com/event/1B2HG/reverse-engineering-memoryless-distortion-effects-with-differentiable-waveshapers?iframe=no Joseph Colonel Centre for Digital Music , Queen Mary University of London 00:02:11 Moving Picture, Audio, and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) – New Audio Standards Exploiting Artificial Intelligence - Excerpt - https://aesfallconvention2022.sched.com/event/1Ay7a/moving-picture-audio-and-data-coding-by-artificial-intelligence-mpai-new-audio-standards-exploiting-artificial-intelligence?iframe=no Marina Bosi Marina Bosi is a founding Director of the Moving Picture, Audio, and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) and the Chair of the Context-based Audio Enhancement (MPAI-CAE) Development Group. Leonardo Chiariglione Mark Seligman Speechmorphing, Inc. #audioengineering #aesnyc #audio

Dizzy's Club, New York City - Tuesday Night Jazz: GREG REITAN TRIO

"Dizzy's Club offers live jazz performances with panoramic views of the Manhattan skyline, a warm ambiance, and a delicious seasonal menu. Dizzy’s Club soars several stories above the expansive vista of New York City’s Central Park." - https://2022.jazz.org/dizzys-club "Pianist, Composer and Steinway Artist Greg Reitan returns to Dizzy’s Club to perform selections from his latest release, West 60th, on Sunnyside Records. Greg was a finalist in the Great American Jazz Piano Competition and the 1996 Hennessy Cognac Jazz Search in New York. In 2002, he won the inaugural ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award. Reitan is also the recipient of the prestigious Copland House Award which featured a month-long composing residency at Aaron Copland’s historic home and studio in the spring of 2019. ... "Reitan possesses blazing chops, which are put to excellent purpose on his fifth CD. His compositions are thoughtful yet never mawkish, while his prodigious technique takes his longtime trio of bassist Jack Daro and drummer Dean Koba down unexpected paths. The trio plays as a seasoned unit, a rare thing in any jazz environment.”- Ken Micallef, JazzTimes Magazine" - https://2022.jazz.org/greg-reitan-trio #jazz #newyork #jazzclub

The Village Vanguard, New York City: Monday Night Jazz - Vanguard Jazz Orchestra

"It has become, perhaps, the most famous basement in New York City. The small room with low ceilings and remarkable acoustics has staged more than 100 live commercial recordings, several of which are essential works in the history of jazz on record. The Village Vanguard, open since 1935, is the oldest continuously operated jazz club in the world." - https://www.npr.org/2008/08/27/94034531/the-village-vanguard-a-hallowed-basement “There’s no other place on the planet where so many greats played for so many years, and that’s one of those statements that seems like hyperbole, but it’s not,” said Loren Schoenberg, the artistic director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. “It’s really the only quote unquote holy place left in jazz—period.” - https://observer.com/2015/02/as-the-village-vanguard-turns-80-it-remains-new-yorks-most-cherished-jazz-club/ "The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra began its life as the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra in 1966.The world-famous Village Vanguard jazz club in New York City booked the newly formed band for three Monday nights that February. Those performances were wildly successful and the engagement was extended indefinitely. The Village Vanguard’s owner, Max Gordon, told Mel Lewis, “We’ll keep it going until it tapers off.” Over half a century and more than 2700 Monday nights later, it still hasn’t. The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra stands apart from all other modern ensembles of its kind and is still as strong and vital as ever." - https://villagevanguard.com/ #jazz #newyork #jazzclub