The next meeting of the AES Melbourne Section will be an in-person event to be held on Monday 13th November 2023 at 7:30pm at the Fairfield campus of the Melbourne Polytechnic (details below).
It will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/AESMelbourneSection
Game Sound Designer/Educator/Musician David Lauritsen will present on the topic of:
On Monday 14th August, the Melbourne Section of the AES held our Annual General Meeting followed by our regular bi-monthly meeting.
Further details on the AGM proceedings can be found at https://aesmelbourne.org.au/2023-agm
Following the AGM, Academy Award winner Ben Osmo (Best Achievement in Sound Mixing 2015 – Mad Max: Fury Road) presented on the topic of:
Newly re-elected Chairman Graeme Huon introduced Ben with a brief outline of Ben’s career.
Ben then took us through his career in location sound production from his start in 1975 at the ABC. He told us that the typical setup of the time was a Nagra portable battery-operated tape recorder and a shotgun microphone on a long boom pole. He explained that the shoots were often one-camera affairs with shots framed as wide-shot, mid-shot, and close-up with the microphone positioned accordingly to achieve the appropriate sound balance.
Our next meeting is expected to be held in mid to late October.
Further details will be provided closer to the date.
The Melbourne Section held its AGM on Monday 14th August at 7:30pm via Zoom.
The Chairman Graeme Huon presented his report on the Section’s activities for the year. This can be viewed at:
https://www.aesmelbourne.org.au/wp-content/media/2023_Chair_Report.pdf
