AES Section Meeting Reports

AES Beijing Section, Beijing China 31, March 2018

Meeting Topic: membership meeting and seminar regarding archiving, preserving audio information in China

Moderator Name: Shuen Wang

Speaker Name: Shusen Wang, Dr. Maoshen JIa, Xiaojie Zhang, Zhiyuan Xiong, Xiaobing Qiao

Other business or activities at the meeting: By convention, before the seminar began, a general AES member's meeting was held. The section secretary, Dr. Maoshen Jia has at first announced that the section Chair, Shusen Wang, has just been elected as vice president of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and is responsible for the Asia Pacific Region. At the same time, he has become a member of the Board of the AES Governors. This is the first time that a Chinese member has been elected as the Vice President of the AES and has entered the top management level of the society.
Shusen Wang is an internationally renowned audio technology expert. As the director and principle audio engineer of the Beijing Olympics broadcast audio system he led audio engineering team to develop the 2008 Beijing Olympics audio engineering and commentary broadcast plan. For the first time, this program has achieved 5.1 surround sound production in the broadcast of major sports events in the world. This has made a great contribution to the highly successful opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the high-level broadcast of sporting events. For this reason, He was awarded by the International Olympic Committee and Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee.
Shusen Wang took this opportunity to thank members for their support and said that he will fulfill the mission and make own contribution to the development of AES in the Asia Pacific region and China.
Then the Chair Shusen Wang logged on to the AES English website, specifically introducing about the membership, payment, and translation of the Chinese version of the online magazine. Talk about how to use the official website to manage your own membership status and encourage everyone to actively participate in the compilation work.
Subsequently, Dr. Maoshen Jia detailed the AES official website resource structures, how to find the technical literatures and AES standards which you need on the Internet. According to the guidelines of Dr. Jia, members logged on to the official website to experience how to download valuable audio files from the e-library. Through the introduction, the members learned about the main resources of the AES official website and knew how to download it for free.

Meeting Location: The National Library China, No.33, Zhongguancun Nandajie, Haidian District, Beijing China

Summary

AES Beijing Section held the first Seminar 2018
The situation regarding the preserving to the audio information in China.

Following the Inside Track of AES website, April Issue "Archiving, Restoration and Digital Libraries" AES Beijing Section arranged a seminar, discussed about the situation regarding the preserving to the audio information in China.
The seminar was in the National Library China in Beijing. The section supporter, Beijing Zhongkehuijin Science & Technology Co., Ltd. Hosted the seminar.
By convention, before the seminar began, a general AES member's meeting was held.
After the membership meeting, the seminar began. Firstly, Xiaojie Zhang, a senior recording engineer of China National Recording Company, introduced the hardships they have experienced in preserving sound sources. Among them, many times have talked about many lessons that should be learned. He used a large number of examples to enumerate the problems that often occurred during the process of transferring audio files from tapes and records to hard disks, analyzed the causes of the problems, and reminded everyone of the issues to be noted in the future preserving works.
The host of the seminar, Zhiyuan Xiong, general manager of Zhongkehuijin, introduced the company's efforts in archiving and restoration to the National Audio Source Project in recent years. He and the chief engineer, specialist of audio source restoration, Xiaobing Qiao demonstrated the specific operating procedures and precautions for the preserving of their sound sources.
Everyone gave a high degree of evaluation of their meticulous work attitude and scientific and rigorous work flow. Everyone also has an extremely strong interest in the audio and old objects that are placed around them.
The seminar activity received the expected results. Everyone praised such activities. Zhongkehuijin stated that with the assistance of AES Beijing, it will recommend to the international industry standards for audio protection that they have presided over to develop international standards and conduct extensive exchanges and cooperation with international counterparts.
The AES Beijing Section will organize professional seminars as required to train qualified personnel for timely and effective rescue and rational use of existing audio resources in various industries in China.

AES Beijing Section, Beijing China 31, March 2018

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