Chris Weller grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, playing guitar and tinkering with a lot of antiquated music software to create industrial electronic music. Upon moving to Pittsburgh to get his ...

MPEG-4 audio does not require a single or small set of highly efficient compression schemes but rather a complex toolbox to perform a wide range of operations from low-bit-rate speech coding to ...

In MPEG Layer III coding the compression gain is mainly achieved through the unequal distribution of energy in the different frequency bands, the use of the psychoacoustic model, and Huffman coding.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Via Licensing Corporation, a leading world-wide intellectual property solutions provider, today announced the upcoming availability of Extended High Efficiency AAC (xHE ...

If the popularity of Geek Choir at various tech-related conferences is any indication, there's a substantial correlation between producing music — whether vocally or with an instrument — and coding. I ...

It’s no secret that electronic music has been revolutionised by the personal computer, but Slub is taking things further. The group, which describes itself as a livecode trio, eschews modern software ...

Musicians have spent centuries flirting with technology to push the boundaries of the art, from the Theremin to mid-century tape experiments. Despite this fascination, only a tiny niche have gone so ...

Education experts know that meeting kids on their level is often the best way to teach concepts – particularly if those concepts are perceived as being bland and boring. That’s often the way young ...