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:
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
The next online meeting of the AES Melbourne Section will be held on
Monday 14th August 2023 at 7:30pm – via Zoom.
It will start with a brief Section Annual General Meeting – non-members and other visitors are welcome to sit in on this part of the meeting.
Then Academy Award winner Ben Osmo (Best Achievement in Sound Mixing 2015 – Mad Max: Fury Road) will present on the topic of:
When Ben started his long and illustrious career in film location sound in the 1970s, capturing location dialogue and effects required little more than a Nagra tape recorder and a shotgun mic on a boom-pole. With advances in technology, the kit a location sound mixer now has to deploy on set can fill a medium-sized van and cover not only multi-channel wireless dialogue/fx capture and recording, but also communications, playback, and monitoring for the entire crew.
Continue reading “August 2023 Meeting Notice: Film Production Sound Through the Years”On Monday 19th June, the Melbourne Section of the AES held our regular bi-monthly meeting.
It was another in-person event held at ABC Melbourne’s Southbank Studios.
Alex Stinson, a senior ABC Classical Music Producer, Recording Engineer and Editor welcomed a capacity group of twenty members and guests for a short tour of the venue’s music facilities, starting at the main orchestral recording space, the Iwaki Auditorium (Studio 355), moving through the other production facilities and recording spaces, and ending up at Studio 356, where he presented to us on the topic of:
Alex described their approach to classical music recording, starting with a description of the process of orchestral recording, and then moving on to recording smaller ensembles, duets and solo pieces.
Continue reading “Meeting Report: June 2023 – Alex Stinson on Modern Classical Music Production”