On Monday August 11^th, 16 members and 10 guests assembled in the SAE Melbourne Lecture Theatre for the Annual General Meeting of the AES Melbourne Section, and to hear Mark Doehmann speak on the topic High End Turntable Design.

Chairman Mark Edwards welcomed everyone, and presented his Chairman’s Report and then Treasurer Graham Haynes presented his Financial Report. Then Mark passed the meeting over to Greg Segal to conduct the Election of Section Officers and Committee Members. Each nomination was presented, and elected unopposed.
The incoming Committee comprises:
Chairman –      Mark Edwards
Vice-Chair –     Graeme Huon
Treasurer –      Graham Haynes
Secretary –      Peter Smerdon
Committee –    Rod Staples
Michail Barabasz
Paolo Menolotto
Julian Driscoll

With the formalities of the AGM out of the way Mark welcomed Mark Doehmann to enlighten us all on his topic of High-End Turntable Design

The report on Mark’s presentation will be posted on this website shortly.

RMIT’s Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory

On Monday June 2^nd Associate Professor Lawrence Harvey and AES stalwart & PhD candidate Jim Barbour hosted twenty Section members and guests at the SIAL Sound Studios at RMIT’s Design Hub in Carlton.

After a brief tour of the main performance space, we were ushered into the main experimental space, where two areas were available – The Equidome, a large area with overhead truss-work where 3-Dimensional speaker installations were installed, and The Pod, a sound booth with comprehensive surround speaker installation and multichannel audio composition and editing capabilities. Continue reading “Meeting Report: June 2014… RMIT’s Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory”