THE SONIC RESEARCH STUDIO

SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY





WSP team, 1973 (l. to r., R. Murray Schafer, Bruce Davis, Peter Huse, Barry Truax, Howard Broomfield)


The "Acoustic Crew", 2010 (l. to r., Nathan Clarkson, Jennifer Schine, Vincent Andrisani, Milena Droumeva, Dave Murphy)


The Sonic Research Studio in the mid 1970s


Bruce Davis in the studio, mid 1970s


Tom Stroud in the studio ca. 1980


Hildegard Westerkamp with the WSP Tape Library, ca. 1982



The Studio 1985 (with stereo and quad speakers)


Andrew Czink in the studio, 1985

Barry Truax and Hildegard Westerkamp in the studio, 2000.

The studio in 2003 with Dave Murphy and students

Directed Study Group, Summer 2003

standing (l. to r.) Alex Mateesco, Ben Wilson, David Paquette, Elizabeth Knudson, Mark MacIntosh, Robin Quirk, Darvin Jones

seated (l. to r) Phil Thomson, Barry Truax, Troy Rogers

THE NEW SONIC RESEARCH STUDIO OPENS IN JANUARY 2006 in the Shrum Building, SFU!

after a long period of construction

and now back in use with our students and composers

And more recently ....



Installation of the TiMax2 Matrix Mixer for Sound Diffusion, June 1, 2011
l. to r. Barry Truax, the Timax2 in the rack, Dave Murphy, Sam Scanlan (Contact Distribution), Jason Levis (standing), Tim Bartoo (Harmonic Functions)


The studio in 2015






Barry & Dave in the studio, February 2015


On the occasion of Barry's retirement, September 2015:

l. to r.: Barry (Prof. Emeritus), Dave Murphy (new Studio Director), Paul Bennett (new technical assistant),
Milena Droumeva (newly appointed Glenfraser Endowed Professor in Sound Studies)


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