The Hearing Conservation Seminar.
The next meeting of the Chicago section of the Audio Engineering Society will be held 7:30pm Tuesday June 8th 2010, at Shure Incorporated in Niles. Members and non-members are welcome. We will also be holding elections for the 2010-2011 season officers during the meeting.
This month Benjamin Kanters will give a presentation titled The Hearing Conservation Seminar.
The Hearing Conservation Seminar and HearTomorrow.Org are dedicated to promoting awareness of hearing loss and conservation. This program is specifically targeted to students and professionals in the audio and music industries. Experience has shown that engineers and musicians easily understand the concepts of hearing physiology, as many of the principles and theories are the same as those governing audio and acoustics. Moreover, these people are quick to understand the importance of developing their own safe listening habits, as well as being concerned for the hearing health of their clients and the music-listening public. The tutorial is a 2-hour presentation in three sections: first, an introduction to hearing physiology; the second, noise-induced loss; and third, practicing effective and sensible hearing conservation.
Dinner (optional but please RSVP) will begin at 6:30pm. Reservation required, contact Treasurer Teri Grossheim at tgrosshe@depaul.edu by Monday June 7th. Sandwiches from Jimmy John's 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.
Officer Elections:
The election of the 2010-2011 Chicago AES Section officers will take place during the June 8th meeting.
The current slate of officers is:
Chairman, Bob Cochran
Vice Chair, Kerry Haps
Treasurer, Teri Grossheim
Secretary, Ken Platz
Webmaster, Bob Zurek
Committee: Gary Khan, Charles King, Marty Reiling, Brad Olson, Bob Schulein, Riva Oliveira, Giles Davis.
Nominations are open from now until the elections. Toss your name in the ring by contacting Secretary Bob Zurek, or come forward during the June 1st meeting.
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
S. Benjamin Kanters, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Audio Arts & Acoustics Columbia College Chicago
Benj has been on the faculty of Columbia College since 1993, after twenty years in the audio and music industries, including fourteen years as adjunct professor of audio at Northwestern University. Through the 1970s, he was partner and sound engineer with the Chicago area concert club Amazingrace. During the 1980s, he was partner and chief managing engineer of Studiomedia Recording Company in Evanston.
In 2004, he began researching best practices in the emerging field of audio archiving and restoration, and is now consulting libraries and music institutions in the design and operation of archive systems.
He began studying hearing physiology in 2000, and continues to follow developments in physiology, hearing loss and conservation. In 2007, he founded The Hearing Conservation Workshop, visiting colleges and universities to teach hearing physiology and conservation to future audio and music industry professionals.
UPCOMING MEETINGS
June 8th 2010:
The Hearing Conservation Seminar: Benjamin Kanters, of Columbia College Chicago
AND 2010-2011 Officer Elections
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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