BuzzNet 2000, a touring educational fest of new music listening techniques, launches this Fall with two dates in California promising students an experience of "music like you’ve never heard it." Sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the California State University at Long Beach and the University of California at Davis have been chosen as the inaugural sites for this innovative effort to demonstrate the revolutionary technologies that are re-creating the ways we listen to and enjoy recorded music.BuzzNet is designed to provide students and faculty with direct "ears-on" experience with the latest consumer audio technologies. The technologies showcased include DVD-Audio discs, surround music for homes and automobiles, "virtual" surround headphones, and Internet audio, all of which are transforming the quality, portability and complete experience of music listening.
"BuzzNet will show that these new audio technologies constitute a new level of quality in the consumer’s music listening experience," says Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of CEA. "New formats such as surround music and DVD-Audio deliver an immersive musical experience virtually indistinguishable from a live performance."
Long Beach State hosts BuzzNet October 12th-13th. BuzzNet comes to Freeborn at UC Davis on October 16th-17th. Students and faculty from these schools and the surrounding areas can register to attend by logging onto the BuzzNet web site.
Additional BuzzNet dates at college campuses across the country are being planned for Spring 2001. Interested students and faculty at any US college or university can register on BuzzNet’s web site to receive automatic updates of future BuzzNet dates and locations as well as download information about new consumer audio technologies.
BuzzNet will feature new music – some of it being heard for the first time – specifically produced for the new surround sound music formats, plus contest giveaways of consumer audio equipment donated by BuzzNet sponsors.
Companies sponsoring BuzzNet 2000 include Alpine, Denon, Dolby, Klipsch, Runco, Sherwood America, Toshiba, Yamaha and Hachette, publisher of Sound & Vision and Mobile Entertainment magazines.
Upcoming events include: CEA Technical Workshop: PCs/Peer-to-Peer Networking (October 11-13, 2000, Arlington, VA); BuzzNet 2000: CSU Long Beach (October 12-13, 2000, Long Beach, CA); CEA Industry Forum & Fall Conference (October 15-18, 2000, San Francisco, CA); BuzzNet 2000: UC Davis (October 16-17, 2000, Davis, CA); Delivering on the DTV Promise: Consumer Marketing and New Business Models in the Digital Age (November 2, 2000, New York, NY); CEA Technical Workshop: DVD (November 15-16, 2000, Arlington, VA); 2001 International CES – Your Source for Workstyle and Lifestyle Technology (January 6-9, 2001, Las Vegas, NV); Winter Technology Summit (February 25-28, 2001, Vail, CO); Digital Download: Politics, Access and the Digital Divide (March 6, 2001, Washington, DC); EIA and CEA Spring Conference (May 6-9, 2001, Washington, DC); Consumer Electronics Executive Summit (June 20-22, 2001, Olympic Valley, CA).
For more information, contact CEA at 703-907-7600.
Link for more info: www.CE.org, www.buzznet.org
