Adrian Freed

>Research Director, Center for >New Music & Audio Technologies
UC Berkeley

Adrian Freed developed the first commercially successful computer-based audio editing and mixing system (MacMix/Dyaxis from Studer Editech), created the first audio plug-in system and the first popular computer multichannel sound file format (adopted as Sound Designer II by Digidesign). At Waveframe he pioneered the use of databases to represent audio metadata. His publications on music ontologies include pioneering measurements of music metadata quality. He currently works at CNMAT UC Berkeley on fabric multitouch user interface for audio consoles and musical instruments and large spherical speaker and microphone arrays for higher spatial fidelity immersive audio.