Toronto AES and Hamilton Music Collective Bring Immersive Sound to the Gasworks
Presented by the Toronto chapter of the Audio Engineering Society ( AES ) and hosted by the Hamilton Music Collective at the Gasworks on Tuesday , Jan . 17 , the “ New Immersive and Surround Recordings by Anderson and Schwarz ” event was an unqualified success , with a sold-out first show and a near capacity second session added due to demand .
Widely hailed as industry leaders in the cutting-edge immersive audio field , the Grammy-nominated husband and wife duo of Jim Anderson and Ulrike Schwarz demonstrated their impressive skills with a song list that featured predominately female artists including Nataly Dawn , Patricia Barber ( whose album Clique netted the duo a Grammy-nod for best immersive album ) and jazz soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom .
Toronto AES ’ Earl McCluskie was thrilled with the turnout , saying some people in attendance were experiencing their first ever AES meeting .
ULRIKE SCHWARTZ AND JIM ANDERSON
The Audio Engineering Society Welcomes Bruce Olson as President
The AES has welcomed Bruce Olson as President for 2023 , the Society ’ s 75 th anniversary year . Olson , whose term of service began on Jan . 1 , is an AES Fellow whose decades of active service to
BRUCE OLSON the Society have helped shape international audio standards and practices , while he has further contributed to the Society as a Governor and Chair , Treasurer , and committee member of his local AES section .
As the Chair of the Audio Engineering Society Standards Committee ( AESSC ), and having served as the Chair of the AES Working Group on Grounding and EMC Practices ( SC-05-05 ), Vice-Chair of the AES Technical Committee for EMC ( AESTC-EMC ), and as a member of various AES standards groups , Olson received the AES Fellowship Award in 2018 “ for outstanding contributions to AES Standards and to sound reinforcement system design and practices .” In addition to Standards , he has served on numerous AES Committees including Awards and Education , the 144 th Convention , and a decade on the Laws & Resolutions Committee .
Olson is the founding member of Olson Sound Design , a consulting firm he started in 1991 specializing in acoustical and technical systems design for performing arts centres , recording studios , and houses of worship . Prior to this , he worked for 13 years in audio and acoustical systems design , installation , testing and project management for Minneapolis , MN-based AVC Systems . He is also active in live sound system design and mixing .
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