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ImmersAV Technology™ Creating an Immersive Audio Visual Experience for Consumer and Professional Entertainment, Informational and Educational Applications.

The next meeting of the Chicago section of the Audio Engineering Society will be held 7:30pm Tuesday January 26th 2010, at Shure Incorporated in Niles. Members and non-members are welcome.


This month Bob Schulein will give a presentation on ImmersAV Technology™.
ImmersAV Technology™ is a group of audio and video techniques for creating recordings that are true to an original performance, visually stimulating and sonically accurate regarding tonality, directionality, and dynamic range. ImmersAV Technology is a process capable of creating a personal entertainment educational or promotional point of view experience based on the synergy of sight and sound. ImmersAV recordings are created using patent pending binaural audio technology and High Definition video processes. Programs produced using ImmersAV Technology require no special playback equipment. By selecting from the wide variety of consumer audio and video playback technology, individuals can set their own level of reproduction quality.

Bob will present the technology and artistic motivation behind this process as well as play a variety of recorded examples. In addition, a live performance will be recorded and played back featuring a group of professional classical musicians from the Chicago-based Fifth House Ensemble. Demonstrations will be presented using High Definition video and individual headphones. If you wish to bring your favorite headphones or earphones with a 1/8” stereo plug, please do so. For those not bringing headphones, units will be provided.

An example of Bob's ImmersAv recording method can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_21FRTK0Sw


Dinner (optional but please RSVP) will begin at 6:30pm. Reservation required, contact Treasurer Teri Grossheim at teri@aes-sda.org by Monday January 25th. Pizza will be provided, please let Teri know if you have a preference for no-cheese and/or vegetarian. Price is $10 for non-members and $8 for members and students.



Meeting Location:
Shure Incorporated, 5800 W Touhy Ave, Niles, IL 60714
DIRECTIONS: When arriving by car, approach from the east by heading west on Touhy, then turn right into the parking lot just east of the Shure building, which is on the corner of Touhy and Lehigh. DO NOT turn left into parking lot from Touhy heading east, as this is illegal and you may get a traffic ticket. Enter at the employee entrance on the east side of the building and register at the guard desk. A valid driver's license must be presented at the guard desk when registering.


 
 

ABOUT THIS MONTH'S SPEAKER
Bob Schulein is the President and owner of RBS Consultants, an international acoustical consulting firm. He has over 30 years experience in the consumer, professional, and hearing health industries, with 13 issued and 16 pending patents. He is a past President of the Audio Engineering Society and currently serves as the Chair of the AES Technical Council, Associate Technical Editor of the JAES on Microphones and Chair of the AES Technical Committee on Hearing and Hearing Loss Prevention. Bob is a part of several start-up companies, one of which is Asius Technologies, where he serves as Vice President of Engineering. Asius Technologies is focused on bringing a new technology to market that will allow individuals to hear better with a variety of audio devices including hearing aids due to a patent pending technique by which sound can be coupled directly into the ear canal with extreme comfort and fidelity.




 
 



UPCOMING MEETINGS

January 26th 2010: 
Binaural Recording: Bob Schulein

February 23rd 2010: 
Tour of Riverbank Acoustical Laboratories (http://riverbank.alionscience.com/index.htm)



Reviewers welcome. . .
Anyone interested in helping our section by writing a review (like the ones on this web page) following one of our meetings, please notify an officer.  Reviewers will get a free AES coffee mug -- plustheir work will be published  on the AES web site and in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society!. You can't beat press like that! 

Openings for Presenters
If you or someone you know is making strides in audio, please alert any one of the section officers.  We are still organizing programs for this year's presentations and are looking for interesting topics. 

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