BuzzNet Events Hit Campuses This Fall

22-Sep-00

BuzzNet 2000, a touring educational fest of new music listening technologies, 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,"" said 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 University hosts BuzzNet October 12-13. BuzzNet comes to FreebornHall at University of California - Davis on October 16-17. Students and faculty from those schools and the surrounding areas can register to attend by logging onto the BuzzNet Web site at www.buzznet.org.Additional BuzzNet dates at college campuses across the country are being planned for Spring 2001. Interested students and faculty at any U.S. college or university can register at www.buzznet.org 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 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.

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