The Student Recording Competition is one of the main attractions at each AES Convention. Submit your very best audio production work and receive feedback and recognition not only by experienced judges, but also by one of the most critical audience you can get.
IMPORTANT: The Student Recording Competition has been redesigned:
Entries were being accepted until September 23rd 2011, 11:59pm (EST).
Posted: Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
This seminar is specially suited for students, recent graduates and those interested in career advice. Hosted by SPARS in cooperation with AES, G.A.N.G., Post NY Alliance and other audio organizations, career related Q&A sessions will be offered to participants in a speed group counseling format. A dozen students will interact with 2-3 working professionals in specific audio engineering fields or categories every 15-minutes. Audio engineering fields / categories include record production, mastering, post, sound for film, gaming and live sound.
Come to the first meeting of the Student Delegate Assembly on Thursday, October 20 at 11:15am-12:45 to sign up for this great opportunity.
Here is a preliminary list of counselors who will be participating in this event.
Niko Bolas
Niko Bolas is known as a “vibe oriented” producer/engineer in music studios and in forays with hi-tech companies. He has recorded and produced music and technology since starting at the famous Record One Studio in 1979. In music, he’s cut with a wide spectrum…
Classic Artists – Neil Young (The Volume Dealers), Billy Joel, Rod Stewart, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, Keith Richards, Herb Alpert, KISS, Steve Perry…
Contemporary Artists – John Mayer, Los Lonely Boys, Melissa Etheridge, The Waterboys, My Morning Jacket…
Rising Talents – Australia’s Rushcutter, England’s Two Spot Gobi, and Chicago’s Echo Son.
Film work spans “The Breakfast Club”, “Singles”, Scorcese’s “Lightning In A Bottle”, and Beyonce’s “Cadillac Records”.
Roy Hendrickson
Roy came up under Tony Bongiovi’s tutelage during The Power Station days. He worked there for over six years and left as a freelance engineer in the early 1990′s. After working all across the country and at a multitude of studios, Roy came back to New York to establish his home base in Manhattan and forming an association with Avatar Studios. Roy has helped design and fine-tune the acoustics for Studio G, the mastering room, Studio E and W. All the rooms have received favorable reviews from our clients. As an engineer, Roy has worked with a wide variety of artists in many different genres including B.B. King, Missy Elliott, Blondie, Cheap Trick, P.O.D., Gavin DeGraw, Miles Davis, Peter Paul & Mary, Richie Havens, Carly Simon, Judy Collins, Gato Barbieri, Pat Metheny, Al di Meola, Kirk Whalum, Jeff Golub, Philippe Saisse, Roberta Flack, Bernadette Peters, Liza Minnelli, Tal Wilkenfeld and Nicole C. Mullen.
Mark Rubel (Pogo Studio)
Since 1980, Mark Rubel has made about 1,000 recordings at his Pogo Studio in the center of The Center of the Universe (Champaign IL), where he has recorded Hum, Alison Krauss, Rascal Flatts, Adrian Belew, Melanie, Luther Allison, Henry Butler and many others, including work for RCA, Capitol, Warner, Jive/Zomba, etc. Mark belongs to SPARS, AES, NARAS, ASCAP, the Music and Entertainment Industry Educator’s Association (MEIEA), Chicago’s Engineering and Recording Society (EARS), and many other acronyms. Recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Society of Professional Audio Recording Studios, he is a member of the Grammy® Producers Committee, NARAS Producers and Engineers Wing and Education Committees. Having taught audio at the college level to more than 4,000 students since 1985, Mr. Rubel now serves as Audio Director for Eastern Illinois University’s $65 million Doudna Fine Arts Center, where he is lucky enough to teach Audio and Recording Technology, the History of Rock, and works on developing new audio and music business curricula. Mark travels about doing panels and workshops, including a 2010 AES panel with Al Schmitt, Ed Cherney and Elliot Scheiner. He has been featured in various books and magazines, interviewed Les Paul, Terry Manning and others for Tape Op Magazine, and acts as a consultant, beta tester and legal expert witness.
David Glasser (Airshow Mastering)
David Glasser HAS OVER 30 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE in audio engineering and has mastered thousands of records, including more than 80 Grammy nominees. A three-time nominee himself, he has earned two Grammy awards for mastering and restoration of the culturally significant Anthology of American Folk Music (1997) and Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton (2002). David began his audio career with the Boston Symphony, followed by eight years of recording and production for NPR. Founding Airshow in 1983 to offer location recording services, he shifted to full-time mastering in 1990 with a modest studio in Springfield, Virginia. Expanding the company to Boulder, Colorado in 1997, David has grown Airshow into one of the largest mastering facilities in the country.
Fred Kevorkian (Kevorkian Mastering)
Fred began his career in France, where he worked for Sonofrance, a well-established sound company in Paris. His background in electronics and passion for music led him naturally into the field of audio consulting and studio design. After several years, Fred decided to specialize in engineering. He became a freelance broadcast engineer working for major television networks as well as a staff engineer at Parisign Records. In 1989, Fred came to New York where he spent a total of nine years at Sear Sound. He was the chief recording engineer there, and also collaborated with Walter Sear in building and customizing unique pieces of vintage gear during the first four years. He then turned his focus to mastering, which really suited his talent and interests. Walter Sears decided to build Studio B where Fred spent the remaining five years there, mastering albums for independent and major label artists. In 1999, Fred joined Absolute Audio where he was on staff for five years before founding Kevorkian Mastering, Inc. in 2004. At Absolute, Fred sharpened his mastering skills and built up quite an impressive list of clients. In April of 2005, Fred moved to a new mastering facility designed and built by Avatar Studios where he continues providing excellent mastering services. His mastering room is located on the 3rd floor. Fred’s credits include albums by Willie Nelson, Ryan Adams, The White Stripes, Dave Matthews Band, Phish, Trey Anastasio, Iggy Pop, The Walkmen, moe and Jesse Malin as well as Sonny Rollins, Cassandra Wilson, Dave Holland, Clark Terry, Danilo Perez and many others.
Randy Merrill (Masterdisk)
Randy’s approach to mastering is to be as attuned to his clients’ aesthetic and practical goals as possible. He’ll go the extra mile to make sure the finished product reflects how you want your music to sound. Randy attended the Sound Recording Technology program at SUNY College at Fredonia, where he studied music theory and performance, audio engineering, and acoustics. After Fredonia, he went to work for the Eastman School of Music, where he honed his skills on all phases of music and audio production — from live and studio recording and mixing, to live sound reinforcement, jazz arranging, composition, and percussion performance. He relocated to New York City in 1999 and started engineering. He spent five years as a technical engineer at Avatar Studios (formerly Power Station) where he worked under Chief Engineer Roy Hendrickson. While at Avatar he aided in the construction of their mastering facility. It was at this point that he switched his focus to mastering. As a result of this shift, he joined Scott Hull Mastering in early 2006 as Scott’s production engineer. Shortly thereafter he started developing his own mastering clientele, and today he is a staff engineer at Masterdisk. Mastering Highlights include the modern jazz of Darcy James Argue, Bruce Hornsby’s sophisticated pop, Franz Nicolay’s indie rock and classical music for the Naxos label.
Leslie Mona-Mathus (ABC News)
Currently Senior Audio Engineer for ABC News, Leslie is an Emmy award winning Audio Mixer/ Editor/ Sound Designer/ Producer. During the course of her thirty plus year career she has earned two Grammy nominations, four Emmy nominations, a Gold Record, a Bafta and multiple Clio and Promax awards. From staff engineer at Automated Sound Studios, to freelancer at major recording studios and music production houses in and around the NYC area, to post-production engineer at Howard Schwartz Recording, and now ABC, Leslie has recorded, designed, edited and mixed numerous CD’s, underscores, jingles, commercials, and promos. Her body of work also includes many long-form projects for major film companies, broadcast / cable networks as well as award winning independent films. As a guest speaker at several universities and secondary schools, Leslie uses her experience and keen interest to present to students in an effort to educate and mentor future generations of audio professionals. Her love of her craft, strong work ethic and commitment to the highest standards of the recording industry, drive her career and artistic endeavors forward, allowing for continued success in an ever-changing industry.
Rick Senechal (Microsoft Studios)
Rick Senechal currently leads the audio group at Microsoft Studios. MS Studios is a full service production facility located in Redmond Washington. They offer services ranging from broadcast, post, music, brand music and music supervision, UI design and general audio production. Our work is played in every global market with an up countable number of plays. Starting as a drummer and then transitioned into audio production, in these early years he ran the recording program at Fairhaven Studios on the Western Washington University. During that time he created curriculum for four university level audio classes. He has a heart for music production and creating educational opportunities aimed at increasing the skill level of the local audio community thus drawing more production to the Northwest.
Eric Johnson
Eric began playing music professionally at the age of 16 in a local R&B band in his hometown of Winston-Salem, NC. In 1986, while attending North Carolina State University’s School of Design, Eric founded Johnsound Productions. Eric’s early work included composing, writing, and recording jingles for local and regional clients. Eric also did studio production for artists seeking recording contracts. One of his first clients was Tyka Nelson who is the sister of Grammy Award-winning artist Prince. Eric helped write and arrange Tyka’s first single, Marc Anthony’s Tune which made Billboard Magazine’s Top Forty chart during the summer of 1987. In 1988, Eric began to move away from producing artists and began to concentrate on music for advertising as well as soundtracks for non-broadcast corporate video and film projects for clients such as IBM, Caterpillar, Golden Corral, Nortel, Burroughs Wellcome, Hardee’s, and North Carolina State University. In January of 2003, Eric joined Trailblazer Studios to launch Blazing Music + Sound, the dedicated custom music and sound division of Trailblazer Studios. Blazing Music + Sound provides custom music, recording, mixing, and sound design for advertising agency, film, television, and video game production clients. Blazing Music + Sound currently handles audio post for TLC’s top rated shows Jon & Kate Plus 8 and 18 Kids and Counting. Other clients include advertising agencies McKinney( Travelocity, Quest, NASDAQ), McCann Ericksson (General Motors), television clients National Geographic/Nova, Fine Living Network, The Tennis Channel, and Animal Planet, and gaming companies Virtual Heroes, Red Storm Entertainment, and Codemasters.
Tom Paul
A highly regarded Re-Recording Mixer and Sound Designer, Tom Paul is one of New York City’s most sought after talents in the field of post production audio. Tom got his professional start as a boom operator in 1988, moving on to production mixing in 1991. Some notable titles of his early years in production sound include: Trust, The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman, Little Odessa, Swoon and The Yards. In 1994, his passion for sound lead him to the creative environment of post production. Some highlights of his sound design and re-recordng credits include the Academy Award winning films The Fog of War and Born Into Brothels. Other notable films include: Junebug, Palindromes, The Baxter, The King, and U2 360, the largest selling concert DVD of all time. Most recently, Tom sound designed, mixed and scored a beautiful Bulgarian filmed called Avé, selected for competition in Critic’s Week, at Cannes 2011. Further integrating Tom’s passion for music and sound, he composed and performed original piano music for the film.
Tom Salta (Persist Music) – Composer / Solo Artist
Tom Salta is one of the most versatile and prolific music composer/producers working in multimedia including film, television, advertising and most notably video games. Salta has garnered widespread acclaim for his distinctive, world-class produced scores featured in popular franchises such as FROM DUST, HALO ANNIVERSARY EDITION, PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE FORGOTTEN SANDS Wii, R.U.S.E., RED STEEL 1&2, TOM CLANCY’S GHOST RECON ADVANCED WARFIGHTER 1&2 and TOM CLANCY’S H.A.W.X 1&2. In addition to his scoring assignments, tracks from his debut Atlas Plug album “2 Days Or Die” grace many television shows, film trailers and video games.
Neil Goldberg (Heavy Melody Music and Heavyocity Media NYC) – Partner/Composer/ Sound Designer
Neil has been credited as composer, sound designer and dialog producer on games for an extensive list of publishers including Electronic Arts, 2K Games, Obsidian Entertainment, Eden Games and Atari. He has worked on commercial advertising campaigns for VW, The NFL, Gillette, GE, Sony, MTV and scored long form programming for Discovery Channel, Syfy, and NBC. Additionally, he’s collaborated with Grandmaster Flash on his latest album, The Bridge. Neil is also the Co-founder/Creative for the award-winning virtual instrument developer, Heavyocity Media, Inc.
Lawrence Manchester
Whether recording a Hollywood film score with a 90-piece orchestra for a Martin Scorsese film, tracking vocals with Beyonce, engineering the Spider-Man cast album for Bono & The Edge, or mixing Fashion Rocks in 5.1 to a TV audience of millions, Lawrence Manchester’s experience and versatility have made him one of the busiest professionals in NYC. To date, this 2010 Grammy-nominee has engineered the scores for three Academy Award-winning films: The Departed, Frida, and The Red Violin. He’s collaborated with some of today’s most accomplished composers (Danny Elfman, Carter Burwell, Marc Shaiman, Elliot Goldenthal, Howard Shore) and finest directors (Ang Lee, Julie Taymor, The Coen Brothers). Lawrence is also the music mixer for NBC’s Emmy-nominated Late Night With Jimmy Fallon where he’s mixed live performances by The Roots, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Green Day, Mumford & Sons, Vampire Weekend, Keith Urban, Public Enemy, Dave Matthews Band, The Dead Weather, My Morning Jacket, and The Muppets. In the studio, Lawrence has engineered records for Grammy-winning producers Phil Ramone, Steve Lillywhite, T Bone Burnett, and Jack Douglas and has recorded some of the most varied artists of our time including Diana Krall, Justin Timberlake, Michel Legrand, Sondre Lerche, Art Garfunkel, Regina Spektor, Natalie Dessay, Ron Carter, and Patti LuPone. As a producer, Lawrence has worked with Kelli O’Hara, and Sutton Foster, and director Michael Moore.
Shaun Wall (MTSG Productions)
Shaun Wall’s audio career began when an engineer at an open mic night had reached his limit and asked if he wanted to take over doing sound. This unexpected event started a two-year journey of learning about the audio world. He decided to return to college, finish a degree, and he wholeheartedly jumped into an audio education at Webster University. A few weeks later, he added cultural anthropology as a second major. Through the study of culture, community, and his personal experiences of how music can bind people together, he embarked on a mission to foster a deeper sense of community among audio engineers. While at Webster, he helped create and bring into existence AES’s first-ever student convention: the Central Region Audio Student Summit–which is now in its fifth year running. His involvement branched out into all areas of the event including sponsorship acquisition, organizing the panel/workshop schedules, contacting and securing guest speakers/panelists, taking care of any day-of-event needs, and directly interfacing with the guests and attendees to improve the convention’s effectiveness in providing desired information at a quality level. These skill sets built a foundation for the position he currently occupies. At this time, he is touring as an FOH engineer for a wonderful band and ism in the process of becoming their tour manager as well.
Posted: Monday, September 19, 2011
David Bowles will be judging entries in the Traditional Acoustic Recording category. Come listen to this expert offer valuable feedback at the Recording Competition finals in New York!
Recording producer and engineer David Bowles formed Swineshead Productions, LLC in 1995 as a classical recording production company, which specialises in high-resolution surround-sound recording. Services offered include audio production, engineering, editing, masteringand location recording for commercial release. Since its inception he has produced and/or engineered over 80 projects for commercial release, ranging from the 17th century to the music of today. He also records season performances of several orchestras and choruses for their audio archives.
Mr. Bowles is a member of Audio Engineering Society (AES): he was on the Board of Governors and served on committees for the 2008 and 2010 conventions. He alternated between chair and co-chair of the San Francisco section of the AES between 2005 and 2010. He is also a voting member ofNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), active in theirProducers & Engineers Wing and has been nominated for Classical Producer of the Year in the American Grammy awards. He has beta-tested hardware and software for Prism Media Products and been a guest lecturer for audio programmes at the Banff Centre, New York University and The Peabody Institute.
Mr. Bowles received audio training from Tony Faulkner, John Eargle, John Newton and the ESARI at Aspen Music Festival. He received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in violoncello from the Juilliard School and a certificate in early music performance practice from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands. For many years he performed and recorded as cellist with both orchestras and chamber ensembles.
Posted: Friday, September 16, 2011
Mark Rubel will be judging entries in the Non-traditional Multi-track Recording category. Come listen to this expert offer valuable feedback at the Recording Competition finals in New York!
Since 1980, Mark Rubel has made about 1,000 recordings at his Pogo Studio in the center of The Center of the Universe (Champaign IL), where he has recorded Hum, Alison Krauss, Rascal Flatts, Adrian Belew, Melanie, Luther Allison, Henry Butler and many others, including work for RCA, Capitol, Warner, Jive/Zomba, etc.
Posted: Thursday, September 15, 2011
Martha de Francisco will be judging entries in the Traditional Acoustic Recording category. Come listen to this expert offer valuable feedback at the Recording Competition finals in New York!
Martha de Francisco is a record producer and recording engineer who specializes in classical music. She is a professor for Sound Recording at McGill University in Montreal.
An internationally acknowledged leader in the field of sound recording and record production, de Francisco has recorded with some of the greatest classical musicians of our time for the most prestigious record labels and in the best concert halls. She has credits on over 300 recordings, mostly for worldwide release.
A graduate from the renowned Tonmeister program at the Musikhochschule Detmold, Germany, Martha was one of the pioneers of digital recording and editing in Europe during the 1980s. In her many years on staff as producer, engineer, and editor with Philips Classics, she developed long lasting working relationships with many prominent artists.
De Francisco has been entrusted with the recording legacy of world-class soloists and orchestras from Alfred Brendel to the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has worked with such artists as Jessye Norman, Claudio Arrau, Simon Rattle, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner, the English Baroque Soloists, the Monteverdi Choir, Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. She has recorded in a variety of venues throughout the world, including the Musikverein in Vienna, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Moscow Conservatoire, Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.
De Francisco is a frequent lecturer at international professional conferences as well as a guest lecturer at leading schools for higher education in Audio in locations as varied as Banff, Moscow, Düsseldorf, Bogotá, and New York.
Her research topics include the latest surround-sound techniques, music recording with virtual acoustics and the aesthetics of recorded music.
Posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
John Merchant will be judging entries in the category "Modern Studio Recording". Come listen to this expert offer valuable feedback at the Recording Competition finals in New York!
John Merchant earned a degree in Music Engineering from the University of Miami in 1989. While still in school, he began working as an intern at Middle Ear Studios on South Beach, owned by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees, where he advanced from assistant to Chief Engineer. In 2004, he opened his own studio in Miami, RedDoor, to produce both new and established acts.
Over the course of his career, John has had the opportunity to work with an amazing collection of musicians, songwriters, producers & engineers. His credits include Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, R. Kelly, Toni Braxton, Celine Dion and Lenny Kravitz, as well as producers Arif Mardin, David Foster, Russ Titelman, Raphael Saadiq, Phil Ramone, and many others.
In 2008, John was nominated for a Grammy as producer for the artist Mika.
Posted: Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Ulrike Schwarz will be judging entries in the category "Traditional Acoustic Recording". Come listen to this expert offer valuable feedback at the Recording Competition finals in New York!
"Ulrike Schwarz is Diplom-Tonmeisterin and recording engineer specialising in classical music and jazz. She graduated from the University of Arts in Berlin. Furthermore, Ulrike studied multichannel recording formats from 5.10 to 22.2 with Akira Fukada and Kimio Hamaskaki in NHK and NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories in Tokyo.
In 2000, she has received the WDR Ars Acoustica award for Andreas Bick „Dripping“ as recording engineer and in 2006 she was awarded with the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik" for Michael Korstick's Best Solo Performance of the year.
She has been a freelance recording engineer and assistant engineer in Avatar Studios and at Anderson Audio (New York, USA) for years. In 2002, Ulrike supervised all concert recordings for the Norfolk Chamber Music Festivals at the Yale University. She has been responsible for supervision of the 1st national TV program and two regional TV programs in the Broadcast Dept. TV in Bavarian Radio (Munich, Germany).
Currently, Ulrike Schwarz is employed in the Produktion Dept. in Radio Bayerischer Rundfunk (Munich, Germany). She also provides workshops for BR recording and editing technicians in music recording. Ulrike is member of the BR Workgroup for Audio Quality in the chapter for sounddesign.
As an AES Member, Ulrike Schwarz is a frequent lecturer at AES events. Her last appearance was in 2010 during the AES Conference on Spatial Sound (Tokyo, Japan) with a presentation of „Paradies und die Peri“ performed by BRSO and Simon Rattle in 9.0, 3-D sound. She has been an AES Governor 2004-2006."
Posted: Monday, September 12, 2011
Ronald Prent will be judging entries in the category "Modern Studio Recording". Come listen to this expert offer valuable feedback at the Recording Competition finals in New York!
"After working throughout the world in top studios such as Wisseloord, Muscle Shoals, and Air Studios, Prent moved to Galaxy Studios, Belgium in 1999 where he was drawn by the dedication of the studio to pioneering new surround formats. He already had an impressive career as a recording and mixing engineer for the likes of Elton John, The Police, Mink Deville, Faith No More, Sade, Robert Palmer, David Bowie, UB 40, Paul Young and local big sellers such as Soulsister, Clouseau, The Scene, Volumia!, Patricia Kaas, Herbert Grönemeyer and Pur. Many more have been added over the years as his impressive client list continues to grow. Prent has been very involved in the development of DSD/DXD technology by Philips/Sony and in the design and development of the API Vision Console and the highly specialized SPL MMC console for multichannel mastering. He received the 2003 Horizon Surround Music Award for his mixing work with Dutch rock band, Kane, and more recently he has worked on a 5.1 surround trilogy for Simple Minds, an SACD for French cult band Indochine and a live DVD-video production for German top band Pur, as well as various multi-format releases for Hooverphonic, Natalia and The Pointer Sisters, Peter Maffay, Gotthard, Lacuna Coil, and Omar Hakim."
Posted: Sunday, September 11, 2011
Darcy Proper will be judging entries in the category "Modern Studio Recording". Come listen to this expert offer valuable feedback at the Recording Competition finals in New York!
"After a long tenure at Sony Music Studios in New York City, this Grammy Award-winning mastering engineer joined the team at Galaxy Studios, Belgium, in 2005. Proper earned her degree in Music Technology at New York University and spent many years as a classical engineer and editor and she brings much of what she learned in that arena to her mastering. Her expert skills run the gamut of recorded music earning her Grammy-nominations for her work on historical reissue projects for such artists as Billie Holiday, Charlie Christian, and Charlie Poole, while also winning TEC and Surround Awards for high-resolution 5.1 projects for artists such as Steely Dan, Eric Clapton, and Porcupine Tree. Recent projects include Donald Fagen, The Eagles, Phish, R.E.M., Kane, Alicia Keys, Katerine, Destiny’s Child, Peter B Maffay, Renée Fleming, and Ray Charles."
Posted: Saturday, September 10, 2011
Jim Anderson will be judging entries in the category "Traditional Studio Recording". Come listen to this expert offer valuable feedback at the Recording Competition finals in New York! "Jim Anderson is an internationally recognized recording engineer and producer of acoustic music for the recording, radio, television, and film industries. He is the recipient of numerous awards and nominations in the recording industry: his recordings have received nine Grammy awards and 25 Grammy nominations; his radio recordings have received two George Foster Peabody Awards and there have been two Emmy nominations for television programs. A graduate of the Duquesne University School of Music in Pittsburgh PA, Jim has studied audio engineering at the Eastman School of Music and Sender Freies Berlin. During the 1970s, he was employed by National Public Radio and engineered and produced many award-winning classical, jazz, documentary, and news programs. Since 1980 Jim has had a career as an independent audio engineer and producer, living in New York City. Jim has had a wide ranging career from the Muppets to "In Performance at the White House", to name a few of his clients. He has been a frequent lecturer and master-class guest faculty member at leading international institutes, including the Berklee College of Music, The New England Institute of Art, McGill University, The Banff Centre, Universite de Kunst in Berlin, University of Luleå in Sweden, the New School University, University of Georgia, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and Penn State University. He has served as Vice President for Eastern Sections of the Audio Engineering society (AES), chaired the New York Section of the AES, Chair of the 119th AES Convention, and was Chair of the 123rd AES Convention, fall of 2007. In fall of 2006, he was made a Fellow of the AES and received the AES’ Board of Governor's Award. He is a professor and the former Chair of the Clive Davis Department of Recorded music, in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He is a Past-President of the Audio Engineering Society, 2008-2009."
Posted: Friday, September 9, 2011
Staff Sergeant Brandie Lane will be judging entries in the category "Traditional Studio Recording". Come listen to this expert offer valuable feedback at the Recording Competition finals in New York!
From 2006 to 2010, Brandie served as head audio engineer at GRAMMY nominated Sono Luminus, a classical label boasting a catalog of over 100 artists and 400 titles. A graduate of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL, Brandie received a Bachelor of Science in Music Engineering Technology with a minor in Electrical Engineering. Brandie currently serves as an US Army staff sergeant and audio engineer with the United States Military Academy Band, located in West Point, NY. Her main duties include recording and live sound reinforcement for the Concert Band, Jazz Knights, Benny Havens Band, and many chamber ensembles.
Her accolades include a 2010 GRAMMY Award for “Best Engineered Album, Classical”, engineering credits on 2010 and 2008 GRAMMY nominated albums, a 2005 Downbeat Award for “Best Engineering for a Live Recording” and an “Award of Excellence” from the 2007 Audio Engineering Society High Resolution Recording Competition.
Her professional affiliations include membership with the Audio Engineering Society and Microphones and Applications Technical Committee. She is also a voting member ofThe Recording Academy (Producers and Engineers Wing).
Posted: Thursday, September 8, 2011
Entries to the 131st AES Recording Competition in New York are being accepted until Friday, September 23, 2011.
The Student Recording Competition has been redesigned, please read carefully through the complete rules and policies before logging in and then sending in your submission. Make sure your AES membership has been renewed recently. You will have to register for the Convention program before you can sign up for the competition.
Here are the major changes at a glance:
Finalists will not be ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd anymore, but rather awarded a Gold, Silver, or Bronze certificate of quality. This award system is meant to make the Student Recording event less of a head-to-head contest and more of a merit-based, collegial competition that recognizes outstanding student recordings.
Category 1 is suitable for recordings of acoustic instruments, vocalists and ensembles recorded live in natural acoustic settings such as performance halls, churches, theatres, soundstages, pavilions and similar environments.
Category 2 is suitable for recordings that are created in a recording studio or similar facility using multitrack studio techniques and technology.
Category 3 is intended for multitrack studio projects that do not meet the restrictions of Category 2. All options are allowed with respect to sound sources, recording techniques, creative production, editing, processing and mixing.
Category 4 is for any type of sound recording created to support a visual experience. The category is open to all visual media, including narrative and documentary video and0film, advertising, video games, signature graphics and image spots.
In addition, all contestants must submit appropriate electronic project documentation with their audio mixes. The specific documentation may vary for each project, but at minimum it must adequately describe and document the recording and mixing processes for the project.
Submissions are made through the online upload form for all categories, please read the submission guidelines for further information on file format and file naming conventions. Contact the SDA if you have problems submitting your files.
We look forward to seeing you at the 131st AES Convention in New York from October 20-23, 2011!
Posted: Saturday, September 3, 2011
Looking for the best and brightest minds in the audio world? No place will have more of them assembled than the 131st Convention of the Audio Engineering Society to be held October 20-23, 2011 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. Your chance to identify which would be right for your company will take place at the Career/Job Fair of which you are invited to participate in free of charge.
The Career/Job Fair will feature several companies from the exhibit floor. All attendees of the convention, students and professionals alike, are welcome to come visit with representatives from the companies and find out more about job and internship opportunities in the audio industry. Bring your resume!
One of the best reasons to attend AES conventions is the opportunity to make important connections with your fellow educators from around the globe. Of course, the 131st Convention of the Audio Engineering Society to be held October 20-23, 2011 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York will not disappoint!
Academic Institutions offering studies in audio (from short courses to graduate degrees) will be represented in a "table top" session. Information on each school's respective programs will be made available through displays and academic guidance. There is no charge for schools/institutions to participate. Admission is free and open to all convention attendees.
The combined Career and Education Fair will take place on Friday October 21 from 11am to 12:30. Check the main AES 131 Convention page for an up-to-date location!
Posted: Saturday, September 3, 2011
