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25TH ANNUAL TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE & CREATIVITY AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Production teams for Coldplay, Foo Fighters take top Creative Achievement honors;
Avid Digidesign, Solid State Logic, Universal Audio: Double Winners for Technical Achievement
Special tribute celebrates life and contributions of Les Paul
October 12, 2009-New York, NY-Nearly 500 audio industry professionals turned out Saturday evening to recognize the achievements of their peers in sound production and product design. Held for the first time at the Audio Engineering Society Convention, the TEC Awards celebrated its 25th anniversary with a theater-style presentation featuring some of the most illustrious names in sound and music, highlighted by a sentimental tribute to the late music icon, Les Paul.
In the Technical Achievement categories, Avid Digidesign won awards for both the ProTools 8 (Workstation Technology) and VENUE Mix Rack System (Sound Reinforcement Console); Solid State Logic scooped up awards for both SSL Matrix (Small Format Console) and the AWS more
ACOUSTICS ON KEY AT VOCOMOTION
WSDG Provides World-Class Environment for Dedicated A Cappella Studio
SKOKIE, IL: A cappella, one of the most idiosyncratic of all performing techniques, presents the ultimate challenge in precision vocalizing. Recording performances which rely exclusively on the human voice for instrumentation as well as lyrics and melody is a unique art. VOCOMOTION Studio owner Freddie Feldman is a master of the genre.
Opening his original studio in Evanston, just outside of Chicago in 1998, Feldman quickly developed a core client base that ranged throughout the U.S., and into Europe and South America. “I got into a cappella in High School, and continued to perform and record it exclusively at Northwestern U,” he says. “There are less than half a dozen studios in the world which specialize in this more
EDUCATION EVENTS A MAINSTAY AT AES 127TH CONVENTION
NEW YORK: An enduring commitment to education has earned Audio Engineering Conventions a reputation for being not just student friendly, but student indispensable. Scheduled for Oct. 9-12 at NY’s Javits Center, the 127th AES Convention will offer another outstanding program of Student Events. Convention Chair Dr. Agnieszka Roginska reports that, “Education Committee Chair, Alex Case; SDA Chair, North & Latin America, Teri Grossheim and our other Education Committee members have pooled their extensive resources to develop one of the most comprehensive programs in AES history. We and the next generation of audio professionals are deeply indebted to them.”
AES Student Program Events Include:
Friday, October 9, 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Student Delegate Assembly-1 Panelists: Teri Grossheim, Chair and Meiling Loo, Vice-Chair will introduce new events and election proceedings, announce candidates for the coming year’s election for the North/Latin America more
127th AES CONVENTION TACKLES SEISMIC ISSUES FACING TODAY’S PRODUCER/ENGINEERS
Mark Ronson, Tony Visconti, Bob Power & Carter Matschullat Join Reality Check
NEW YORK: An all-star producers panel will address the unprecedented challenges posed by today’s roiling music industry at next week’s 127th AES Convention.
Budgets have shrunk, retail is on life support, studios are evaporating, audiences are taking music at will … And yet resolute professionals continue to make records for a living. How are they doing it? How are they getting paid? In a world where the CD has become an artists’ ‘business card,’ how will producers and mixers derive participatory income? Are studio professionals being left out of the so-called 360 deals?
Friday, October 9, 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Producing Across Generations: New Challenges, New Solutions-Making Records for Next to Nothing in the 21st Century: Moderated by independent producer/mixer Nicholas Sansano (NYU)and indie producer/engineer Jesse more
