Pacific Northwest AES Section Blog

This meeting focuses on Turntablism - the art of using turntables and a mixer as an instrument. Jamie Simmonds will demonstrate turntablism, such as manipulating live and recorded audio through a few short performances. Jamie performed three long-running Hip Hop shows Off-Broadway. He then toured the world, selling out large venues including the Sydney Opera House. He'll review the incredible history of turntablism and, as a group, we'll explain the amazingly advanced technology and DJ/human mechanics surrounding modern scratch DJing in particular. Turntablist DJs have infiltrated all music genres from A Capella to Zydeco. 

Steve Macatee will share his intimate knowledge of the technical product evolution of DJ mixers, USB Audio and control vinyl from his 29 years in product development at Rane Corporation. We'll even talk about manipulating video using vinyl records.

 

Steve Turnidge is past chair of the PNW AES Section, a mastering engineer, author and PCB designer, who also worked at Rane for 11 years, and will be moderating the evening.