HML Lecturers

YearMonthDay#CityStateCountryHeyser Lecture
2026Oct. 161stNashvilleTCUSATBD
2026May28160th
Copenhagen
 DenmarkDorte Hammershøi – From Head-Related Transfer Functions to Risk of Damage and Hearing Rehabilitation
2025Oct.24159thLong BeachCAUSASean Olive – Make Audio Great Always: Using Science for Consistent Quality
2025May28158thWarsaw PolandJüergen Herre – It’s All About Perception – A Personal Research Journey
2024Oct.9157thNew YorkNYUSAAnthony Agnello & Richard Factor – Doohickii Digitali Redux
2024June16156thMadrid SpainXavier Serra – From Audio Processing to Music Understanding‚ a Research Journey
2023May14154thHelsinki FinlandJamie Angus-Whiteoak – The Ear is not a Fourier Transformer
2023Oct.26155thNew YorkNYUSARichard King – Sound and Enlightenment: A series of eye (and ear) opening events linking sound recording theory and practice
2022May8152ndDen Haag NetherlandsDiemer de Vries – Wave Field Synthesis – Just A Wave … or a Durable Synthesizer in the Audio Field? (Virtual)
2022Oct.19153rdNew YorkNYUSAGilbert Soulodre – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Heyser Lecture – The Twists and Turns of a Career in Audio
2021May27150thAmsterdam NetherlandsDiana Deutsch – Two Perceptual Puzzles: Audio Illusions and Perfect Pitch (Virtual)
2021Oct.22151stNew YorkNYUSAJohn M. Chowning – Part 2: Implementing FM Sound Synthesis (Virtual)
2020June2148thVienna AustriaFrancis Rumsey – Sound Quality in the Era of Interaction and Extended Reality (Virtual)
2020Oct.27149thNew YorkNYUSAJohn M. Chowning – Realizing a Dream, a Discovery and Lisajous Figures (Virtual)
2019Mar.21146thDublin IrelandDavid Griesinger – Learning to Listen
2019Oct.17147thNew YorkNYUSALouis Fielder – Psychoacoustics Applied to Dynamic-Range and Nonlinear-Distortion Assessment
2018May24144thMilan ItalyMalcolm Hawksford – Understanding high quality audio, a personal journey
2018Oct.19145thNew YorkNYUSAJohn Meyer – Taking the Room Out of the Loudspeaker: New Tools for Transparent Reproduction
2017May21142ndBerlin GermanyJorg Sennheiser – A historic journey in audio-reality: from mono to AMBEO
2017Oct.18143rdNew YorkNYUSALeslie Ann Jones – Paying Attention
2016June4140thParis FranceRozenn Nicol – The Immersive Audio Revolution: From Labs to Mass-Market
2016Sept.29141stLos AngelesCAUSADave Smith – Synthesizers: From Analog to Digital to Software to Analog
2015May9138thWarsaw PolandIlpo Martikainen – Monitoring Loudspeakers, Can They Be Truthful Quality Control Tools?
2015Oct.29139thNew YorkNYUSABruce Koenig – Acoustic Forensic Gunshot Analysis, The Kennedy Assassination and Beyond
2014April26136thBerlin GermanyDietrich Schüller – Preserving our sound recordings – 25 years since everything changed
2014Oct.10137thLos AngelesCAUSAMarty O’Donnell – The Ear Doesnt Blink: Creating Culture With Adaptive Audio
2013May4134thRome ItalyWolfgang Klippel – Small, Loud-Speakers: Taking Physics to the Limit
2013Oct.17135thNew YorkNYUSAGeorge Massenburg – 4-44 & Me, Stagnation to Transformation: The Real Future of Music
2012April28132ndBudapest HungaryGraham Blyth – In Pursuit of Elegant Simplicity: Life, Luck, and Learning in Music and Audio
2012Oct.27133rdSan FranciscoCAUSAJames J. Johnston – Audio, Radio, Acoustics and Signal Processing‚ the Way Forward
2011May14130thLondon UKKarlheinz Brandenburg – How to Provide High Quality Audio Everywhere
2011Oct.21131stNew YorkNYUSAJohn Atkinson – Where Did the Negative Frequencies Go?
2010May23128thLondon UKBrian C. J. Moore – Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids
2010Nov.5129thSan FranciscoCAUSABen Burtt – The Sound Behind The Image
2009May7126thMunich GermanyGunnar Rasmussen – The Reproduction of Sound Starts at the Microphone
2009Oct.11127thNew YorkNYUSAPhil Ramone – Technology and Music Meet Again
2008May18124thAmsterdam NetherlandsGuus Berkhout – The Big Challenges in Audio, a glance into the future
2008Oct.3125thSan FranciscoCAUSAFloyd Toole – Sound Reproduction: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go
2007May6122ndVienna AustriaGerhard Steinke – What is needed to have the Audio-Eldorado at home?
2007Oct.6123rdNew YorkNYUSALeo Beranek – Aspects Of Concert Hall Acoustics
2006May21120thParis FranceJim Flanagan – Spatially-Selective Sound Capture
2006Oct.6121stSan FranciscoCAUSAJulius O. Smith III – History and Practice in Digital Sound Synthesis
2005May29118thBarcelona SpainStanley P. Lipshitz – The Rise of Digital Audio: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
2005Oct.8119thNew YorkNYUSAJozef J. Zwislocki – Sound Transmission and Analysis in the Ear – Recent Insights
2004May9116thBerlin GermanyKees A. Schouhamer Immink – From Analog to Digital
2004Oct.30117thSan FranciscoCAUSAWalter Murch – Edison’s First Sound Film and the Three Fathers of Cinema
2003Mar.23114thAmsterdam NetherlandsJens Blauert – Communication Acoustics: Audio Goes Cognitive
2003Oct.11115thNew YorkNYUSARay Kurzweil – The Future of Music in the Age of Spiritual Machines
2002May11112thMunich GermanyJim West – Modern Electret Microphones and Their Applications
2002Oct.7113thLos AngelesCAUSARay Dolby – Some Musings on Progress in Audio: A Quest for Better Sound at Affordable Prices
2001May13110thAmsterdam NetherlandsManfred Schroeder – The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Audio
2001Dec.2111thNew YorkNYUSAPer Bruel – Acoustics in Small Studios
2000Feb.21108thParis FranceJames A. Moorer – Audio in the New Millennium
2000Sept.24109thLos AngelesCAUSAAlan Kay – The Computer Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
1999Sept.25107thNew YorkNYUSARoger Lagadec – Digital Audio and the Challenge of the Internet
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