HTML5 Audio with Max Goodman and Scott Schiller

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6:30pm: Food!

7:00pm: Max Goodman (reddit)

7:45pm: Scott Schiller (Flickr)

Making Waves: A Primer in Pure JS Generated Audio (Max Goodman)

The emergence of HTML5 audio APIs have created unique opportunities for sound and music synthesis on the web. This talk will introduce basic synthesis techniques and explain the lay of the land for generating dynamic audio in the browser. On the way, we'll discuss the basics of digital audio theory, some computer history, and examples of web audio synthesis in the wild.

About Max

Max Goodman (originally from Portland, OR) is a front-end developer for reddit.com. He is passionate about music, art, and sharing awesome experiences through the web. When not hacking in vim or browsing reddit, Max enjoys improvising on piano and bicycling around the bay area.

Adding sound to HTML (Scott Schiller)

The web has been largely silent for years, given a lack of native audio support; HTML5 audio now promises to help bring sound capability to the masses. This talk will cover a bit of web audio history, the present state of support, some practical demos and a few gratuitous examples of where browser-based audio is going.

"Aboot" Scott

Scott Schiller hails from Canada, and builds front-end things on the Flickrteam at Yahoo!. In his spare time he likes photography and DJing, and using technology to mix them all together.
SoundManager 2 is a personal side project that aims to help developers make sound "just work" on the web. "Wheels Of Steel" is an example that uses SoundManager 2 to recreate a turntable interface in a browser.

Photo credits:

Eric Miraglia http://www.flickr.com/photos/equanimity/551... (http://www.flickr.com/photos/equanimity/5514285126/)

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