SVG Europe Audio has announced speakers from HBS and the University of Darmstadt for the final session of the day at the Sports Audio Summit 2024, looking at immersive audio in European football. Taking place at Kings Place, Kings Cross, London on 21 November, the line up of speakers is already long and distinguished.
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Appearing in the session titled ‘Balls and mics: Bringing immersive audio action from European football to viewers’, Professor Felix Krückels from the University of Darmstadt Broadcast Production and System Design department, a mixer on many football World Cups, the German Bundesliga and other TV shows in stereo, surround sound and next-generation audio, will be in conversation with HBS engineering manager Nicolas Brie on the topic of immersive audio in football across Europe.
The pair will cover events in their discussion from the Bundesliga to the Euros.
The keynote session, ‘Lap of honour: The Sound of the Olympics’, features Nuno Duarte, Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), senior manager, audio, discussing how OBS captured, mixed and distributed the audio for Paris 2024, while Karl Malone, NBC Sports and Olympics, senior director of audio engineering, exposes the enormous production behind the US rights-holding broadcaster’s approach to audio.
Also, in the session called ‘First on the throttle: MotoGP excelling in audio’, Sergi Sendra, Dorna Sports’ head of global technology for MotoGP, will outline how his company brings the sound and excitement of the world’s premier motorcycle championship to fans at home and discusses the broadcast audio challenges faced along the way.
Then in ‘Paving the way: Pushing sports audio forwards through diversity and inclusion’, Lucy Moss, BBC Sport operations executive, sound and comms lead and Hazel DeAyr, freelance sound assistant, will discuss the need for increasing the diversity of crews in sports broadcasting sound, as well as keeping those people in the industry and championing them on their way up the career ladder.
More speakers will be announced soon.
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