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Professional audio societies

Posted by Bill Way (A) on August 23, 2014 at 22:49:49

I've hit on this before, but this week pretty special, and it is because of the AES and NARAS, so I want to bring up, again, how much you can get from the local chapter of professional audio societies. The events this week, both free, were:

1) A private screening of the Memphis Blues/Mississippi Delta Blues film "Take Me To The River," followed by a Q&A with the production team and some of the performers, and;

2) A three-hour tour of Kaufman Astoria Studios. Kaufman was founded by Adolph Zukor in 1920, and is used for film, TV, and audio production. It has 57,000 square feet of sound stage, and almost an acre of back lot. The pic is one of their great sounding control rooms, with engineer Bernard Fox leaning on the Neve V3 console.

If you are in an area with a good music scene, see if these orgs have a local chapter. There might be some great things going on, and you can expect these orgs to welcome newcomers and guests.

Audio Engineering Society (aes.org)
The audio granddaddy, with 14,000+ members and chapters world-wide. Their October convention is enormous, with a huge exhibition and over a hundred seminars, panels, and lectures. The studio tour I attended was put on by the AES New York chapter.

National Association of Record Industry Professionals (narip.com)
NARIP events often bring together people from studios, broadcasters, ad agencies, artist management, advertisers, syndicators, composers, songwriters, arrangers, and performers.

National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (grammy.com)
They do that long award show, and local events like the film screening I went to this week.

National Association of Music Merchants (namm.org)
NAMM puts on a huge trade-only exhibition of gear every January in Anaheim, and Musik Messe two months later in Frankfurt.

IEEE (ieee.org)
Formerly the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the IEEE is the largest technical organization in the world, with 400,000 members. Audio is a small part of their spectrum, but they are so big, that small part becomes pretty important. Pretty much every technical standard in the world was developed or at least defined by the IEEE.

Cheers,
WW

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