Author: Kylie-Grace Snyder

The Central Indiana Section of the Audio Engineering Society is pleased to announce its first summer meeting to be held June 26, 2012. The first part of the meeting will feature dinner hosted at Shapiro’s Deli, followed by a tour of Lucas Oil Stadium.

That’s right, dinner and a tour! For AES members the meal is completely free, so be certain to come out and break bread with your fellow members. Guests are welcome too (please invite as many as you like!), and can join us for a donation of only $10! For dinner we will meet at the Shapiro’s Downtown at 5:30pm (see below for complete details).

The tour is courtesy of Lucas Oil Stadium’s tremendously gracious Sound & Lighting Department. We will meet at the NW corner of the building which is the employee entrance and parking will be on your own (come to dinner and we can carpool!). The tour will take approximately two hours and will cover speaker arrays and delays in the bowl, the main amp rack room, Media Matrix and Crown Hi-Q operating systems, and other highlights. As always, they’ll be open to suggestions and if you have other interests they’ll do their best fit them in.

The meeting is a must-attend for anyone interested in live production and installed sound. However, we encourage all our members to come out and attend our AES dinner so we can celebrate the successes of the past year together.

To ensure an accurate count for the meeting, you must RSVP below.

Meeting Information
Date: June 26, 2012

Dinner Time: 5:30pm.
Dinner Location: Shapiro’s Deli Downtown
808 S Meridian St. Indianapolis, IN 46225 (map).

Tour Time: 7:00pm.
Tour Location: Lucas Oil Stadium Employee Entrance
500 South Capitol Avenue. Indianapolis, IN 46225 (primary address) (map).

To stay up to date on section activities, be sure to follow us on Facebook or Twitter, and feel free to contact any member of the executive board to let us know your thoughts about the section.

The Central Indiana Section of the Audio Engineering Society is pleased to announce a joint meeting to be held May 23, 2012 with SBE Chapter #25 on the topic of Advanced Intercom Systems for Live Sound, Broadcast, & Recording Environments.

The meeting will feature Steve Quillin and Michael Brown of Bosch Communications Systems, presenting on the new lines of Production Intercom systems from Telex and RTS. This will include the Digital Matrix, Partyline systems, and BTR wireless units.

We are especially excited about this meeting as it represents an ongoing effort to partner with other professional organizations within the region. The meeting is a must-attend for anyone who works in live production environments, including live sound, recording, and broadcast.

At our May meeting, we will also formally announce our elections for the year, the nominations and elections which will take place online. All interested in local AES leadership and involvement are encouraged to attend!

The meeting will be held May 23, 2012 at 7:00pm in the conference room of ESCO Communications’ Indianapolis office. To ensure an accurate count for the meeting, please RSVP below.

Meeting Information
Date: May 23, 2012 at 7:00pm.
Location: ESCO Communications Conference Room
8940 Vincennes Circle, Indianapolis, IN 46268 (map).

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The Central Indiana Section of the Audio Engineering Society is pleased to bring this exciting announcement to all our members. The Department of Recording Arts in the Jacobs School of Music is delighted to welcome Dr. Patrick Feaster as special guest lecturer this coming Wednesday evening, April 18 at 5:00pm in Sweeney Hall, Room M015 of the Simon Building on the IU Bloomington campus (map).  His presentation is entitled “Voices from the Grave (1850s – 1890s): Recent Discoveries in Archeophony.”

A special feature of his presentation will be the unveiling of phonautograms recorded exactly 152 years before, to the day, on April 18, 1860.  These recordings remained mute for over one and a half centuries and have never before been heard in a public venue.

Two-time Grammy nominee Patrick Feaster is one of the world’s leading researchers specializing in the early history of recorded sound.   His investigations have helped unearth dozens of significant, heretofore unknown historical artifacts containing aural information captured 120 to 160 years ago.  He has also developed revolutionary methods to recover these ancient sounds and make them audible, in some cases for the first time since they were recorded in the nineteenth century.

In his presentation, Dr. Feaster will discuss and play examples from several of the recent archeophonic expeditions in which he has played a central role, including:

• Newly identified wax cylinders recorded in Europe in the 1880s by William J. Hammer and Theo Wangemann, pioneering recording engineers who worked for Thomas Edison.

• Phonautograms created in Paris in the 1850s and 1860s by French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville utilizing a stylus to etch patterns in soot-covered paper.  The discovery these scientific artifacts and successful eduction of their audio content by Feaster and his colleagues at FirstSounds.org stunned scholars and forced the rewriting of the history of sound recording to acknowledge Scott, and not Edison, as the father of recorded sound.  These revelations were profiled in The New York Times and on National Public Radio.

• Audio recovered from paper prints made in the late 19th century, inked from the surfaces of metal phonographic discs that have since been lost to history.  Some of these prints were published in popular magazines of the era and Dr. Feaster has developed innovative techniques to educe the sounds contained on those discs from their printed images.

Patrick Feaster’s rigorous research, technical ingenuity, passion for all things audio and sheer tenacity have combined to unlock a vast wealth of ancient human sonic expression – musical instruments, acting, singing, oration and more – captured well over a century in the past and at last, available again for all to hear, study and enjoy.

Additional information:

• On Patrick Feaster

• On FirstSounds.org

• On the IU Department of Recording Arts

The Central Indiana Section of the Audio Engineering Society hopes you’ve found this announcement useful. To stay up to date on section activities, be sure to follow us on Facebook or Twitter, and feel free to contact any member of the executive board to let us know your thoughts about the section.