<International Conference>

- 75th Anniversary Meeting (147th Meeting) of the Acoustical Society of America, 24-28 May 2004, New York -

<Professor Ando organized the session on“How to Quantify Opera House Acoustics”and a party.>

Special Session on “How to Quantify Opera House Acoustics”

"Theory of acoustic design of opera house and a design proposal"
Yoichi Ando

"Subjective evaluation of the balance between the singer and the orchestra inside a historical opera house"
Shin-ichi Sato, Hiroyuki Sakai and Nicola Prodi

"Magnetoencephalographic responses in relation to temporal and spatial factors of sound fields"
Yoshiharu Soeta, Takuya Hotehama, Seiji Nakagawa, Mitsuo Tonoike and Yoichi Ando

"Proposal of a new plane shape of an opera house - optimized by genetic algorithms"
Takuya Hotehama, Yoichi Ando, Akinori Tani and Hiroshi Kawamura

"Blending vocal music with a given sound field due to the characteristics of the running autocorrelation function of singing voices"
Kosuke Kato, Kenji Fujii, Keiji Kawai, Yoichi Ando and Takashi Yano

"Acoustical qualification of Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto before refurbishing works"
Alessandro Cocchi, Marco Cesare Consumi, and Ryota Shimokura

Session on “Psychological and Physiological Acoustics ”

"Auditory-evoked magnetic fields in relation to the inter-aural cross-correlation"
Yoshiharu Soeta, Takuya Hotehama, Seiji Nakagawa, Mitsuo Tonoike and Yoichi Ando

- 18 th International Congress on Acoustics, 4-9 April 2004, Kyoto, Japan -

"Subjective evaluation of the balance between the singer and the orchestra inside a historical opera house"
Shin-ichi Sato and Nicola Prodi

"Auditory evoked magnetic fields in relation to the bandwidth of bandpass noise"
Yoshiharu Soeta, Seiji Nakagawa, Mitsuo Tonoike and Tetsuo Moriya

"Multiple missing fundamental phenomenon as a monaural-beat perception"
Ryota Shimokura and Yoichi Ando

"Optimum design of sound reflectors in an opera house by genetic algorithms"
Takuya Hotehama, Akinori Tani, Hiroshi Kawamura, Alessandro Cocchi and Yoichi Ando

"The calculation of binaural parameters by means of HRTFs and Ando’s method"
Lamberto Tronchin, Angelo Farina, Takuya Hotehama, Ryota Shimokura and Valerio Tarabusi

International Symposium on Musical Acoustics 2004, March 31st- April 3rd, 2004, Nara, Japan

"Blending vocal music with the sound field -the effective duration of autocorrelation function of Western professional singing voices with different vowels and pitches"
Kosuke Kato, Kenji Fujii, Keiji Kawai, Yoichi Ando and Takashi Yano