Singapore MusicTech - July Meetup

Venue: 9th Floor, PayPal office, Suntect Tower 5

Speakers:

• Philip Diamond (https://sg.linkedin.com/in/thephildiamond)

Phil is the founder and CEO of Audasis (http://www.audasis.com/). He is passionate about technology, saving the planet, and creativity. He studied business and strategy with a focus on people. As a PC gamer growing up, he has always been very conscious of user experience and interface; that got him thinking about the ways in which people and technology interface.

• Aqilah Misuary (https://sg.linkedin.com/in/aqilahmisuary)

Aqilah is an electronic musician (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Faqilahmisuary.bandcamp.com%2Freleases&t=OWQ1YjFiODU3OTQ2YTcxNDYwOGQ3YTkyZThkMDg3OGYyMTdlYjNhMSxUbU4zdWpESg%3D%3D), sound-designer (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2Faqilahmisuary&t=OTM1YmQyNDY5YjhhOWY3Mjk1ZTRjMWYyNzk2YzdjNTAxNTRjNmU1YyxUbU4zdWpESg%3D%3D) and audio-visual artist (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fsetosuary.com&t=YjYwZmMxMDc3ODEyOTAxNzNlMDJjYTJjOGU2NTM4ODUwMTQ5ZDRlYyxUbU4zdWpESg%3D%3D). She writes about anything related to music technology, sound design and web audio. Graduated with a B.A in Music Technology from Lasalle College of the Arts, Aqilah also performs regionally as a musician and does live visuals for various local bands.

Agenda:

• 6:45pm: Come, have some pizza and say hello to each other
• 7:20pm: Overview of how noise reduction, discussing both passive and active methods - by Phil
• 7:50pm: Synthesising Drum Sounds using the Web Audio API - by Aqilah
• 8:20pm: Some performances this time!

• Bipin (https://soundcloud.com/shenoybipin) will bring his Flute (He's an amazing flute player)

• Bernice said she will bring her xylophone.

Related Articles:

• Audasis - (customizable noise cancelling headphones) http://www.audasis.com/

• How noise canceling headphone works - http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/audio-music/noise-canceling-headphone.htm

• Synthesizing sounds with Web Audio - http://sonoport.github.io/synthesising-sounds-webaudio.html