"The Sound of Music".(Brief Article)

Chris Kyriakakis calls his invention "the time machine." It can put you in the front row at Carnegie Hall to hear the Beatles or in a 1940s ballroom with Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra.

Kyriakakis, assistant professor of electrical engineering in the University of Southern California (USC) School of Engineering, has developed a new technology called "Virtual Microphone." It transforms old one- or two-channel audio recordings into true concert-hall quality sound that precisely mimics the acoustical characteristics of a hail. The technology also makes it ...