"While we’ve been delivering quality online events and will continue to take Convention content to a worldwide audience through an online component of the Fall Convention, there’s just nothing that completely replaces gathering as a community and interacting face-to-face," shares AES New York 2022 Convention Chair Jonathan Wyner. "We’re hard at work putting together a program that promises to educate and inspire. We hope you’ll join us this October.”
Whatever an attendee’s audio interest or level of expertise, AES New York 2022 offers targeted content and opportunity at every turn. Along with reconnecting with colleagues, clients and friends and making new acquaintances, the eagerly anticipated return to the in-person AES Convention experience will feature a comprehensive selection of workshops, panels, demonstrations, training, research presentations, student-focused sessions and inspirational special events in its unparalleled Technical Program, in addition to the popular exhibition floor filled with the latest gear and offerings from top brands in audio.
An ever-popular component of AES Conventions is the Exhibition Floor, hosting a hands-on showcase with product experts and special guests showing off the latest audio products and solutions, and the opportunity to gain valuable face time with end users from all aspects of the industry. The Software@AES Pavilion, an AES partnership with the International Music Software Trade Association (IMSTA) showcases the leading audio software manufacturers demonstrating their latest products; the AVID Software Pavilion, with AVID and partners demonstrates the latest in Pro Tools and third-party production plug-ins; the Academy Stage, with special guest panels and Q&A’s; Mix with the Masters, where elite producers and engineers discuss and demonstrate their skills and techniques; the Media over IP Pavilion for the latest in networked audio; the AES Student & Education “Future of the Industry” Pavilion with presentation theater, networking and a Career Fair; and much, much more.
This 153rd International Audio Engineering Society International Convention will once again be co-located with the NAB Show New York, offering access to a shared exhibition floor and even greater networking opportunities among the content-creator attendees to both events.
All Access Technical Program
The first in-person Audio Engineering Society international convention in three years will see more than 250 audio professionals, ranging from Chuck Ainlay to Tomasz Zernicki, deliver a hundred-plus new Workshops, Tutorials, Papers presentations and other sessions, with full details now available.
New events listed include the Recording and Technology sessions on a well-rounded variety of topics such as “Becoming Immersive in Music” and “Make Your Room Sound Right – Basics, Tips & Tricks,” as well as a look at “Remote Location Recording – From Here to Anywhere” and “Inspiring Creativity Through Music AI on TikTok and Beyond.” Newly announced Applications in Audio sessions include an examination from both production and consumer standpoints of “Trends in Audio Hardware,” which continues the Convention’s new audio tech focus; a “Score Mixing Compendium,” taking a look at different approaches to mixing a film score; and a pair of sessions examining the relationship of the analog and digital domains in “Software Modeling of Historical Analog Instrument Circuits” and “Producing Electronic Music Without a Computer."
The AES has announced that Susan Rogers will deliver the Thursday, October 20 Keynote at the AES New York 2022 Audio Engineering Convention.
Sharing her powerful perspectives as a multi-platinum producer/engineer, audio technician, author, educator and researcher, Rogers’ presentation, “This Is What It Sounds Like: A New Model of Music Cognition,” will give insights into a new model of music cognition that focusses on the “listener profile” – the constellation of individualized preferences mapped to an array of musical and aesthetic dimensions to create a better understanding of our own unique auditory experience. Rogers notes, “Before we become expert music makers, we must become expert listeners. Learning where the sweet spots reside on your unique ‘listener profile’ will deepen your relationship with the music you love.”
Rogers, a professor of cognitive neuroscience with a doctoral degree in experimental psychology from McGill University, is widely known for her work with Prince during the height of his career in the mid-1980s, along with a roster of artists including David Byrne, Barenaked Ladies, Geggy Tah, Nil Lara, Robben Ford, Tricky, Michael Penn and Jeff Black. Her Keynote address will explore the ties between musical and aesthetic dimensions of our listening, as well as the science behind our musical preferences and what may be inferred about us as creators and consumers of audio.
Rogers’ abstract for her “This Is What It Sounds Like: A New Model of Music Cognition” address reads in part: “Record making involves an implicit understanding of what generates a response in music listeners. How are these assumptions supported by science? Models of music perception and preference have recently expanded to include the unique, subjective ways in which listeners respond to stimuli...The music we respond to the most powerfully can reveal those parts of ourselves that are robustly linked to our sense of self identity. The brain structures underlying music preferences are formed over a lifetime of musical experiences, resulting in a profile that is unique for every music lover. The ways in which music preferences form and how they differ will be discussed.”
Rogers’ impact on the industry continued through her professorship at Berklee College of Music, where she taught psychoacoustics and record production in the department of Music Production & Engineering, and she became the first female recipient of the Music Producers Guild Award for Outstanding Contributions to U.K. Music in 2021. Most recently Rogers has coauthored a book with neuroscientist Ogi Ogas on her keynote topic: This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You, slated for release in September 2022.
Rogers’ full abstract for her Keynote address, along with a listing of confirmed sessions covering a comprehensive range of topics and presenter names, is now posted at the AES New York 2022 website with more details to follow soon.
The 153rd AES Convention will celebrate the legacy of Al Schmitt and explore the significance of the parametric EQ on its 50th anniversary. Included in the AES New York 2022 Convention’s two full days of comprehensive sessions on October 19–20 are celebrations of such contributions to the audio sciences alongside the exploration of the latest technologies and the ideas of the latest generation of innovators.
50 years ago, the concept of a parametric equalizer was introduced at an AES Convention in a paper authored and presented by George Massenburg, now an AES Fellow and Gold Medal awardee. At AES New York 2022, Massenburg will return full circle for the golden anniversary of this seminal and now ubiquitous technology, discussing his coining of the term “parametric” and the experimentation and collaboration of individuals who contributed to the development of sweep-tunable EQ.
Fundamental technologies can be built upon, even generations after their introduction. In the AES New York Convention workshop “Applications and impact of the parametric EQ on the 50th anniversary of its invention,” Massenburg and other innovative engineers will review the established application archetypes for parametric and sub-band (“graphic”) equalization and explore creative applications of EQ.
Continuing the creativity theme, the AES New York session “Celebrating Al Schmitt” will recognize the enormous contributions to the art of audio production by this beloved producer, engineer and mentor. An AES Fellow, the late, great Schmitt’s seven decades of award-winning and excellence-defining recordings have inspired and led the way for thousands of today’s audio professionals, while entertaining millions. The celebration, led by Elliot Scheiner, will include contributions from additional friends and collaborators of Schmitt’s, including Frank Filipetti, Chuck Ainlay, Niko Bolas, Dana Dowd, Paula Salvatore and George Massenburg.
“One of the greatest aspects of the AES is the opportunity to meet and learn from the amazingly inspiring pioneers of our industry,” says Jonathan Wyner, AES Past President and Chair of the AES New York 2022 Convention. “The parametric EQ is something we take for granted, but we shouldn’t lose sight of its impact. It changed recorded music forever – and so did Al Schmitt, who set a standard for what recorded music could sound like.”
Tomorrow’s Tech Revealed
AES Conventions are also technology incubators. For more than seven decades, these events have been where new ideas are introduced, where experts discuss, debate and refine concepts, and where revealed science meets innovative application. It is when elite researchers, product developers and content creators gather to collaborate. Early peeks at the in-person AES New York 2022 Audio Engineering Convention’s technical program reveal that these disruptive traditions will be upheld during two full days of comprehensive sessions on October 19-20 (with targeted sessions on the 18th and related events on the 21st).
A case in point: DSP software engineers have longed to unleash GPU (Graphics Processor Unit) computing power for audio applications, though the difficulties in doing so seemed unsurmountable. In the session “Real-Time Parallel DSP Processing on GPUs,” GPU Audio co-founders Jonathan Rowden and Alexander “Sasha” Talashov will share how a new approach enables extremely low-latency GPU audio processing for uses such as multi-channel processing, cloud-based DSP, networked collaboration and the use of AI. Audio DSP developer Alexander Prokopchuk will give a practical demonstration using the FIR Convolver Reverb plug-in.
Speaking of alternative processing paradigms, in the workshop “Mixing Spatial Audio in the Game Engine,” Mirek Stiles, the head of Audio Products at Abbey Road, will walk through the recording, DAW mixing and final Unity game engine mixing process for creating a “gamified” 6 Degrees of Freedom Virtual Reality music experience. A stem mix of an “in the round” string quartet recording of a piece by film and game composer Stephen Barton will provide a proof of concept.
Can machines enhance creativity? In the session “Human Machine Creativity,” Nadine Raihani – head of UX and market research | design at Native Instruments and a producer/engineer – will be joined by iZotope associate director of engineering Caroline Lacoste for an exploration of how new and innovative assistive technology tools can unleash creativity and make music creation more accessible to everyone.
Audio application of Artificial Intelligence is a hot new field with demonstrable early results. Three PhDs combine as an amazing brain trust for the session “Moving Picture, Audio, and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) – New Audio Standards Exploiting Artificial Intelligence.” Leonardo Chiariglione, the creator of the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) standards development organization has founded MPAI to extend coding technologies far beyond the long-in-tooth MPEG algorithms. Chiariglione will be joined by Marina Bosi, who brings decades of coding and content management development expertise, and Mark Seligman, chief linguist at Speech Morphing, a natural language speech synthesis company working to improve human machine communication, for an exploration of the role AI plays in the standards defining what you’ll be hearing in the future.
Register Now
AESShow.com is the destination to claim best pricing on All Access or complimentary Exhibits+ registration through the Early Bird period. Exhibits+ registration offers two days of access to the Exhibition Floor, Keynotes and Special Event Series sessions, Experience Stages and more, while All Access registration also lets attendees experience the comprehensive Tech Program. It’s all taking place at the Jacob Javits Center, October 19–20, with additional training opportunities on October 18 and Tech Tours and Networking events on October 21. The Convention continues online, October 26–27, with a separately curated program of workshops, papers and presentations to a world-wide audience.
The complete AES New York 2022 Convention Tech Program information and announcements, and hotel options are online at AESShow.com.
AES members benefit from preferential pricing and complimentary Exhibits+ registration. AES New York 2022 event partners include Avid, Dell, IMES (Iron Mountain Entertainment Services), The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing and Qualcomm. The Convention will once again be collocated with NAB Show New York, produced by the National Association of Broadcasters with a shared exhibits space.
The NAB Show New York is also promoting an interesting schedule for the Radio Reimagined | Charting Radio’s Future conference, one of two radio-focused tracks taking place. The program will focus on the latest trends and strategies in radio, podcast creation and audience engagement. Leading voices in the radio industry will share exclusive insights on digital revenue opportunities, artificial intelligence applications, programming strategies and more.
Two radio-focused tracks, Radio Insights (October 19) and Radio Reimagined (October 20), are part of the Ultimate Radio Experience. The full schedule is now available online. The winners of the NAB Marconi Radio Awards will also be announced during a special dinner event on October 19.
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