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Roman holiday: AES 134 preview


AS MAY Day is rooted in Roman history, is it somewhat appropriate that the 134th Audio Engineering Society Convention should be held on the holiday weekend at the Fontana di Trevi Conference Centre in Rome.


Despite the expectations of a tourist-heavy weekend, the AES executive says it is on target to hit its projected attendance numbers for the first convention to be held in the Eternal City. “Arguably the very birthplace


of engineering, our ‘Eternal City,’ will provide a richly historic setting for the world’s top audio professionals, educators and students,” said convention chairman Umberto Zanghieri. “We have co-ordinated a full programme of distinguished speakers, timely tracks and stimulating special events designed to provide information and inspiration in an incomparable setting.” While there will be no exhibitors


per se, the convention “will feature special displays by over a dozen prominent sponsors”, added Zanghieri. “We are pleased to welcome, Audio Precision, Audiomatica, B&C Speakers, bdSound, CharterOak, Crane Song, EKO Music Group, Fairlight Europe, Klippel, LAMBDA, Microtech Gefell, RCF, Trinnov Audio and ZP Engineering and we thank them for their support.” Presenting this year’s keynote


address is author, professor of music production and engineering and DJ Stephen Webber. An Emmy-winning composer whose works include the Stylus Symphony, Webber was recently appointed director of Music Technology Innovation at Berklee’s new campus in Valencia, Spain. He is also an accomplished studio designer whose clients include actors Jack Black and Ben Stiller, and a producer/engineer who’s worked with NAS, Mark O’Connor and DJ Premier. Entitled ‘Inventing the Album


of 2025’, Webber’s AES keynote will seek to consider what is technologically, economically and artistically possible, to decipher what the record album


should look, sound and feel like come 2025. Presenting the Richard C Heyser Memorial Lecture is Wolfgang Klippel, founder of Klippel GmbH, and developer of control and measurement systems dedicated to loudspeakers and transducers. Entitled ‘Small, Loud-Speakers:


Taking Physics To The Limit’, Klippel’s lecture will address the challenge in engineering diminutive speakers that are also loud and have high efficiency and low distortion. “Considering our primary


convention tracks… Klippel’s presentation is particularly appropriate,” said AES technical council chair, Francis Rumsey. “His lecture’s central topic will focus on cultivating large signal transducer performance. As a leader in research on transducer modelling, acoustic measurement and psychoacoustics, and as a pioneer in the development of critical measurement tools, Wolfgang Klippel is one of the most highly respected experts in the field.” Of the five Convention Tracks –


Live Sound, Loudness Issues, Recording Techniques, Spatial Sound and Sound For Pictures and TV – the AES is highlighting the latter, with Zanghieri commenting that “Sound For Pictures Track chair Brian McCarty has developed a particularly compelling programme of papers, tutorials and workshops”. Presentations for the Sound For


Picture Track include Simon Franglen, co-producer of My Heart Will Go On (Titanic), and an


integral collaborator on the music production of such blockbuster hits as: Avatar, Spider-Man and Skyfall. Utilising clips from all three films, Franglen’s tutorial will illustrate the construction of a film soundtrack from inception, temp track and recording through to final mix. In addition, Institute of Acoustics Fellow Philip Newell will document his latest cinema sound project – the construction of the first Dolby ATMOS theatre in Moscow, finished at the beginning of April. Finally, the Rome Convention


will reprise one of the most well attended workshops of the 133rd AES Convention in San Francisco; a presentation by the leading proponents of ‘Immersive 3D sound systems: IOSONO, Auro3D, Dolby and NHK’. Representatives from all four companies will continue their discussion on the relative merits in each of their proposals. In addition, over 140 papers,


sessions, workshops, tutorials, engineering briefs, student and career development events have been created. The convention will also host Standards Committee and Technical Council Meetings. To view the most current schedule, consult the preliminary events calendar on the AES website. “We have high expectations for the 134th AES Convention,” AES executive director Bob Moses concluded. “Attendees will find many opportunities to listen, learn and connect with each other. n www.aes.org


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The AES embraces a new convention format as it prepares to receive the pro-audio


community in Rome over the holiday weekend on 4-7 May


An AES first in the ‘Eternal City’


Photo: David Iliff. License: CC-BY-SA-3.0


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