About Paratonal

Paratonal is a new consultancy established by Adam Weisser, PhD, an acoustical engineering and hearing science maverick with more than 20 years of combined industrial, academic, and artistic experience. The vision that Paratonal heralds is to unabashedly mix knowledge and ideas from different fields for the solution of problems that necessitate creative and unconventional thinking.

Past projects Weisser was involved in include the design of a large number of psychoacoustic experiments, listening tests, and sound quality evaluations both within industry and academia, industrial product development (hardware) in close collaboration with engineers of all kinds, work with audio and music technology in studio environment as well as in the context of room acoustics, work with hearing impaired populations of all ages including hearing aids and hearing assistive technologies, extensive work with higher-order ambisonic 3D audio recording and reproduction technology that culminated in the co-authorship of a popular open-access real-world recording database (ARTE), proficiency in music mixing, audio editing, and production techniques. Additionally, Adam Weisser is the originator of the Temporal Auditory Imaging Theory that contends to be the most comprehensive hearing theory at present.

Adam Weisser holds a PhD in Hearing Science from Macquarie University in Sydney (2015-2018), in the topic of "Complex Acoustic Environments", supervised by Jörg Buchholz and Gitte Keidser. Prior to that he earned his MSc in Engineering Acoustics from the Technical University of Denmark (2002-2004), with a thesis in the topic of sound quality in small room acoustics supervised by Jens Holger Rindel and Jan Voetmann. Before getting into acoustics he received a BA Cum Laude in Physics from the Technion in Haifa, Israel (1997-2000).

Professionally, Adam Weisser spent close to 8 years working for the hearing aid industry in Denmark in different capacities within R&D. Working for Oticon between 2006 and 2010 both as an employee and a freelancer, he was in charge of the acoustical performance of the (legacy) remote microphone Amigo FM series, which was designed to wirelessly deliver excellent audio signal (high signal-to-noise ratio) to hearing-impaired listeners / hearing-aid users. Additionally, he was with GN ReSound (2012-2015), working primarily on the improvement of wireless assitive technology: the Mini Mic and specification and development of its successors, the Multi Mic and the Micro Mic. Before specializing in acoustic waves, he also worked as a microwave (RF) circuit (monolithic microwave integrated circuit, MMIC) designer at Rastech Wireless Systems, Haifa (2000-2002).