InterBEE REVIEW2012 (EN)

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76InterviewerMr. Mick SawaguchiPresident of Mick Sound LabIntervieweeMr. Dennis BaxterSound DesignerInter BEE Forum ReportNews Center Pick up 52012 was the year of the quadrennial Olympics. A session entitled, “Audio System Construction for Large-scale Sports Events such as the Olympics” was held at the Inter BEE Content Forum 2012 to coincide with the Olympic year. In addition to being the world’s largest sports festival, broadcast-ing the Olympics requires the construction of the most complex and advanced audio production system in the world.Mr. Dennis Baxter was in charge of sound design at the London Olympics. Mr. Baxter went independent after being in charge of Olympic broadcasts at NBC, and has worked as a sound designer at large-scale sports events including the Olympics.He has served as a sound designer at 8 Olympics including Atlanta (1996 Summer Olympics), Sydney (2000 Summer Olympics), Salt Lake City (2002 Winter Olympics), Athens (2004 Summer Olympics), Turin (2006 Winter Olympics), Beijing (2008 Summer Olympics), Vancouver (2010 Winter Olympics), and London (2012 Summer Olympics). He has also worked as a sound designer for hundreds of sports events, such as the World Cup and NASCAR, and he has won 5 Emmy Awards for sports program audio engineering. He is the No.1 sound designer for sports outside broadcasting.At the session Mr. Baxter introduced sound systems he designed for the London Olympics. In addition, problems that actually arose at events and their solutions were discussed, and a wide variety of sports event presentation techniques were described in detail.The interviewer, Mick Sawaguchi, has served as a TV drama mixer for NHK and has overseen a wealth of internationally-acclaimed works that have won awards such as the Arts Festival Grand Prize, HBF Award, IBC Nombre d'Or Award, and Vatican Hope Award. He has worked hard to develop surround sound and held many workshops, seminars, and technical presentations mainly at the AES Convention. He served as the Director of the Program Production Engineering Center in 2003.He is the leading expert in surround sound and is well-known in the professional audio industry both in Japan and abroad. For example, he was given the name, the “Master of Sound”, by JAS for his services to audio. After leaving NHK in 2005, he taught sound design at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Musical Creativity and Environment via a position as an audio promotion advisor for the Pioneer Corpo-ration. He then presided over the “Surround Terakoya Lab” to teach and spread surround technology. Through his activities at the Surround Terakoya Lab he won the “AES JAPAN AWARD” (2009) and received the Japan Audio Society Award for “Investigation into Allowance of Home-theaters’ Surround Speaker Placement for Acceptable Perception of Reproduced Sound” in December, 2012.When it comes to professional sound, Messrs. Sawaguchi and Baxter are two of the best in the world. In this interview, Mr. Sawaguchi asks Mr. Baxter about technical issues in sound design as well as his thoughts as a professional working on the front line of the sound design profession.

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