Jim Barbour MComms (Swinburne) Grad Dip Ed (Info Tech)(Melb) Lecturer Tel: 61 3 9214 8836 Office: AS418 Email: jbarbour@swin.edu.au

Biography

Jim has extensive experience working with sound in Australia and overseas, with more than twenty five years as a music producer and recording engineer and many years as a production manager in Commercial radio.



After Electrical Engineering studies at Adelaide University, Jim worked overseas and in Australia in the music industry producing audio for vinyl, CD, film, video and television releases. Credits include Recording Engineer for Men at Work’s ‘Business As Usual’, Sound Supervisor for the Australian Opera at the Adelaide Festival Theatre, film music awards and Advertising awards for radio production. Jim also worked at Conservatoria of Music, designing and building Electronic Music Studios, and teaching recording techniques and composition using electro-acoustic instruments and music synthesisers. He performed in concerts of experimental music and assisted in the creation of sound sculpture installations.



Over the last seventeen years, Jim has designed and delivered training programs at Swinburne University of Technology in Radio, Audio and Multimedia. He completed a Master of Communications at Swinburne University and also holds a Graduate Diploma of Education in Information and Communications Technology from Melbourne University.



Jim’s current research is focused on multi-channel audio, including 5.1 and Ambisonic formats, and is investigating new broadcast and delivery formats.

Teaching

Graduate Diploma of Arts in Commercial Radio

undergraduate and postgraduate courses in radio

audio and multimedia

Research Interests

Multi-channel audio broadcasting, delivery and production

Aural perception

Radio production

Publications Include

Subjective Consumer Evaluation of Multi-channel Audio Codecs, AES 119th Audio Convention, New York, October 2005

Delivering Spatial Audio, Australian Computer Music Association, Brisbane, July 2005

Multi-channel Surround Sound on Digital Radio, International Radio Conference, RMIT Melbourne, July 2005

Analytic Listening: A Case Study of Radio Production, 10th International Conference on Auditory Display, Sydney, 2004

Elevation Perception: Phantom Images in the Vertical Hemi-sphere, Audio Engineering Society International Conference on Multi-channel Audio, Canada, 2003

Awards and Grants

Gold Record for Recording Engineer, Men at Work’s ‘Business As Usual’ album

Advertising awards for radio production