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Events
AES Guest-Speaker Series
"Reality is Not a Recording/ A Recording is Not Reality"
The former New York Times film critic, Vincent Canby, wrote “all of us have different thresholds at which we suspend disbelief, and then gladly follow fictions to conclusions that we find logical.” Any recording is a ‘fiction,’ a falsity, even in its most pure form. It is the responsibility, if not the duty, of the recording engineer, and producer, to create a universe so compelling and transparent that the listener isn’t aware of any manipulation. Using basic recording techniques, and standard manipulation of audio, a recording is made, giving the listener an experience that is not merely logical but better than reality. How does this occur? What techniques can be applied? How does an engineer create a convincing loudspeaker illusion that a listener will perceive as a plausible reality? Recordings will be played.
When: March 6th, 2009, 7 P.M.
Where: Anderson Audio Shop
Please RSVP by Tuesday 5PM.
Membership is not required for this first event. We would be happy to see everyone here and would like to use this opportunity to allow everyone to participate in a great example of what our Central PA AES Chapter will be up to.
For more information feel free to check out: www.aes.org
Speaker Biography
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. 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, and Penn State University. He is a professor of recorded music with the Clive Davis Department of Recorded music in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and was the department’s Chair from 2004 – 2008.
He has served as Vice President for Eastern Sections of the Audio Engineering society (AES), chaired the New York Section of the AES and was Chair of the 119th and 123rd AES Conventions. In 2006, he was made a Fellow of the AES and has received two AES’ Board of Governors Awards.
He is also the President of the Audio Engineering Society.