Chavin

Chavín de Huántar Archeological Acoustics Project

Acoustic Measurement, Archiving, Analysis and Modeling, and Simulation/Installation

• Co-investigators: o John Rick, PhD, Professor, Stanford University, Archaeology/Anthropology o Julius O. Smith, PhD, Professor, Stanford University, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)/Electrical Engineering (by courtesy) o Jonathan S. Abel, PhD, Consulting Professor, Stanford University, CCRMA o Patty Huang, MA, Graduate Student, Stanford University, CCRMA o Miriam Kolar, MFA, Graduate Student, Stanford University, CCRMA Coordinator: o John Chowning, DMA, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, CCRMA/Music Local collaborators: o (Museum director)

Team Background: • John Rick has been heading excavations and directing research at the Chavín site since 1995 - Digital waveguide techniques were pioneered at CCRMA by Julius O. Smith III - Smith and Jonathan S. Abel have been working together on acoustic array processing and related problems since 1985 – Patty Huang is a 4th year graduate student working under Abel on physical modeling of reverberant spaces – Miriam Kolar is a 2nd year graduate student with extensive field experience in recording engineering – John Chowning is a composer having long standing interest in spatial modeling. CCRMA has expertise in field measurements, psychoacoustics, digital signal processing, and artificial reverberation.