@article {doi:10.1121/1.4987551,
	title = {David Wessel{\textquoteright}s Inventive Directorship of UC Berkeley{\textquoteright}s Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)},
	journal = {The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
	volume = {141},
	number = {5},
	year = {2017},
	month = {2017},
	pages = {3560-3560},
	abstract = {The main professional focus of David Wessel{\textquoteright}s final 30 years was the development and nurturing of UC Berkeley{\textquoteright}s Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT). Jean-Baptiste Barri{\`e}re succinctly described David Wessel as bringing a scientific consciousness to music and a musical consciousness to science. This was manifest in CNMAT practice by building apparatus/instruments that served musical production AND research-apparatus that was concurrently validated as novel and significant in three communities: music, science and engineering. I present the major achievements of CNMAT and the special transdisciplinary practices that made the center so productive for its modest size in its 3 concurrent spheres: research, music creation, and education. This will include a brief case study of CNMAT{\textquoteright}s unique acoustics research apparatus, a 141-driver spherical speaker array. Larger institutions attempted unsuccessfully to create such a high resolution array. David Wessel led CNMAT{\textquoteright}s success by attracting strong researchers and support engineers over an extended period, creatively finding funding from a diverse combination of extra-mural, government and industry sources, bringing together experts from multiple institutions internationally and tapping the intellectual capital of the UC Berkeley academic community. I conclude by pointing out recent initiatives of David{\textquoteright}s mentees who carry CNMAT practices in their work.},
	doi = {10.1121/1.4987551},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4987551},
	author = {Freed, Adrian}
}
