AES Historical Web Store: Oral History Project

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  • Titia Bakker (034) Titia Bakker (034)
    AES Oral History 034: Titia Bakker. Assistant to J.L. Ooms of Philips Phonographic Industries. European Convention Coordinator for AES, and instrumental in the development of the European regions for the AES. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (39:46) Interview Date: 2003-03-23
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  • Alex Balster (028) Alex Balster (028)
    AES Oral History 028: Alex Balster. While working for Polygram, helped develop technology that enabled CDs to store and reproduce music. Owns and operates a consulting company that specializes in the design and supervision of high quality acoustical projects for the art, audio / video, media and entertainment industry, including recording studios, sound dubbing stages, mastering suites for digital sound processing, facilities for magnetic and optical media-production, and other special purpose facilities. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (31:54) Interview Date: 2000-09-22
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  • Robin C. Caine (010) Robin C. Caine (010)
    AES Oral History 010: Robin C. Caine. Of Pro-Bel Ltd. has been active in AES conferences and broadcast standards committee work and for many years and has published numerous AES and IEEE articles on broadcast facility digital signal distribution and control systems. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (33:52) Interview Date: 2003-03-25
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  • Henk De Wit (036) Henk De Wit (036)
    AES Oral History 036: Henk De Wit. Recording and Broadcast Engineer for Dutch Broadcasting. Independent Consumer Electronics Professional. Committee member of the Dutch AES Section from 1990-1993. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (45:54) Interview Date: 2003-03-24
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  • Cor L. Doesburg (013) Cor L. Doesburg (013)
    AES Oral History 013: Cor L. Doesburg. Audio Broadcast Manager, Dutch Broadcasting, where he developed and supervised a department of 276 employees. Committee member of inaugural Dutch AES Section from 1974-1979, and again in 1988. Former Chairman of the Dutch Section of the AES from 1990-1992 and 1994-1996. Known as a great church organ lover, Cor authored a book about organs in use by Dutch broadcasting. Cor invented an addition to tape machines called the 'Doesburgse schijf' (Doesburgian disc), which provided an extremely fast way of editing. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (50:08) Interview Date: 2003-03-22
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  • Michael L. Dorrough (001) Michael L. Dorrough (001)
    AES Oral History 001: Michael L. Dorrough. Audio innovator and broadcast industry pioneer, a prominent member of the ham radio community (KO6NM), and an expert on AM modulation techniques. Founder and president of Dorrough Electronics- design and manufacture digital audio and video monitoring devices. Has received an Academy Award and Emmy for his Audio Loudness Monitors, and was the recipient of the NAB's 2000 Engineering Achievement Award as the developer of discriminate audio processing, now widely used. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (31:57) Interview Date: 2000-09-24
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  • John M. Eargle (005) John M. Eargle (005)
    AES Oral History 005: John M. Eargle. (1931-2007) Educator, mentor, and friend of many in the audio community. Served as Vice President of Product Development at JBL Professional, recorded or produced some 275 compact discs, wrote several popular books on audio engineering topics, was past president of the AES, had a deep commitment to education, presenting at many forums as a guest lecturer and serving on numerous panels and committees. He taught at the Aspen Audio Recording Institute for more than 20 years and served on the faculty of the Aspen Audio Recording Institute. A scholarship fund has been established in Eargle's name under the auspices of the Audio Engineering Society's Educational Foundation. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (44:50) Interview Date: 2002-09-27
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  • Louis Goodfriend (026) Louis Goodfriend (026)
    AES Oral History 026: Louis Goodfriend. Acoustical Consultant. First editor of the AES Journal (1953 ? 1954). An early proponent of forming a working coalition between acoustic designers, acoustic engineers and recording engineers. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (53:30) Interview Date: 2004-04-13
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  • Kees A.S. Immink (016) Kees A.S. Immink (016)
    AES Oral History 016: Kees A.S. Immink. Kornelis Antonie (Kees) Schouhamer Immink was born in Rotterdam, Holland and is known as the "Father of the CD." A scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur, who pioneered and advanced the era of digital audio, video, and data recording including the CD, DVD and Blu-Ray Disc. The owner of over 1,100 patents, Immink received the Edison Medal for a career of creative contributions to the technologies of digital video, audio, and data recording, an individual Technology Emmy award and Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands bestowed him a knighthood in 2000. The author of over 120 articles and four books including Codes for Mass Data Storage Media, he has been an adjunct professor at the Institute for Experimental Mathematics, University of Duisburg and Essen, Germany, since 1994, as well as affiliated with the National University of Singapore (NUS) as a visiting professor since 1997. Interviewed by Hans Lauterslager. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (51:06) Interview Date: 2001-05-15
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  • Frank Laico (043) Frank Laico (043)
    AES Oral History 043: Frank Laico. Recording Engineer for Columbia Records. Associated with Columbia 30th Street Studio, Studio C, known as "The Church". One of the first engineers to use natural room ambience and natural echo in an aesthetic way. Well known for his work with Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis and Mitch Miller. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (1:27:45) Interview Date: 2003-11-08
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  • Stanley P. Lipshitz (053) Stanley P. Lipshitz (053)
    AES Oral History 053: Stanley P. Lipshitz. Professor Lipshitz's research interests are multidisciplinary, drawing on areas of applied mathematics, physics, and electrical and mechanical engineering. They include the mathematical theory of dithered quantizers, noise shapers, and sigma-delta modulators, and the physical acoustics of nonlinear sound radiation and active noise control problems. Professor Lipshitz has consulted and collaborated extensively on dithered quantizers and noise shapers for the digital audio and music industries with companies such as Philips Classics, Decca Records, Deutsche Grammophon, CBS, Sonic Solutions, Meridian Audio, and Weiss Engineering. These techniques are now standard practice in digital audio mastering and signal processing. He is a past President of the AES. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (47:48) Interview Date: 2002-10-07
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  • Tom Magchielse (061) Tom Magchielse (061)
    AES Oral History 061: Tom Magchielse. Audio expert for Dutch Broadcasting Laboratories. Participated in everything from microphone design and construction to room acoustics throughout Dutch Broadcasting's development. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (24:35) Interview Date: 2003-03-25
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  • Les Paul (018) Les Paul (018)
    AES Oral History 018: Les Paul. Born Lester William Polsfuss on June 9, 1915, is an award-winning guitarist and inventor. He is a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar, which became the sound of rock and roll. His many recording innovations include multitrack recording, along with overdubbing "sound on sound", tape delay, and phasing. He is considered by both seasoned rock artists and engineers to be one of the greatest influences in our crafts due to his inventions, longevity and guitar innovations. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (1:47:03) Interview Date: 2002-03-16
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  • Norman C. Pickering (070) Norman C. Pickering (070)
    AES Oral History 070: Norman C. Pickering. Pioneer of innovations in phonograph cartridge design. Also known for his research on violin strings, bows, and violin acoustics. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (23:17) Interview Date: 1997-08-29
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  • Subir K. Pramanik (063) Subir K. Pramanik (063)
    AES Oral History 063: Subir K. Pramanik. Instrumental in the introduction of aesthetics to Bang & Olufsen products. AES International President 1993-1995, President 1997-1998, Board of Governors 1999-2001. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (42:56) Interview Date: 2002-10-06
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  • Richard Small (058) Richard Small (058)
    AES Oral History 058: Richard Small. An American scientist who worked mainly on electroacoustics. The Thiele/Small parameters are named after him. Small was born in San Diego, California. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1956 and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958. He gained experience in electronic circuit design for high-performance analytical instruments at the Bell & Howell Research Center in California from 1958 to 1964. After a working visit to Japan in 1964, he moved to Australia, where he got a part-time job at the University of Sydney as a teaching assistant in the electronics lab. He became interested in loudspeaker analysis and measurement and met A. N. Thiele who was lecturing at the university. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree in 1972. He taught for a number of years at that university, but returned to industry in 1986 as Head of Research at KEF Electronics Ltd. in Maidstone, England until 1993. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (39:44) Interview Date: 2002-05-12
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  • Han Tendeloo (080) Han Tendeloo (080)
    AES Oral History 080: Han Tendeloo. AES Secretary. Design Engineer at Philips, who succeeded Johan L. Ooms upon his retirement in 1973. Instrumental in the development of the CD and the construction of the facilities needed to produce them. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (1:52:53) Interview Date: 2002-05-12
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  • Neville Thiele (074) Neville Thiele (074)
    AES Oral History 074: Neville Thiele. A. Neville Thiele of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, together with Richard H. Small of the University of Sydney, pioneered a method of analysis for loudspeakers which was named after them (Thiele/Small parameters), a set of electromechanical parameters that define the low frequency performance of loudspeaker drivers. These parameters are published in specification sheets by driver manufacturers giving designers a guide for selecting drivers for loudspeaker systems. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (1:00:27) Interview Date: 2002-05-13
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  • Cornelis H. van de Gragt (085) Cornelis H. van de Gragt (085)
    AES Oral History 085: Cornelis H. van de Gragt. Producer and Recording Engineer for Dutch Broadcasting. His focus is on knowledge of music among engineers. Also Educator at Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (24:49) Interview Date: 2003-03-25
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  • Hermann A.O. Wilms (081) Hermann A.O. Wilms (081)
    AES Oral History 081: Hermann A.O. Wilms. Researcher in room acoustics. After obtaining a diploma in 1957 as an Engineer in industrial electronics, he joined the National Institute of Radio and Cinematography in Brussels as professor. Recipient of the AES Distinguished Service Medal Award in 2007 for more than 35 years of dedicated service to the AES, and to the European region, and conventions in particular. Interviewed by Irv Joel. Edited by Harry Hirsch.
    NTSC DVD-R (29:18) Interview Date: 2002-05-13
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