Description:

"Reality is Not a Recording/A Recording is Not Reality" The former New York Times film critic, Vincent Canby, wrote 'all of us have different thresholds at which we suspend disbelief, and then gladly follow fictions to conclusions that we find logical'. Any recording is a 'fiction', a falsity, even in its most pure form. It is the responsibility, if not the duty, of the recording engineer, and producer, to create a universe so compelling and transparent that the listener isn't aware of any manipulation. Using basic recording techniques, and standard manipulation of audio, a recording is made, giving the listener an experience that is not merely logical but better than reality. How does this occur? What techniques can be applied? How does an engineer create a convincing loudspeaker illusion that a listener will perceive as a plausible reality? Recordings will be played.

About the Speaker:

Jim Anderson is an internationally recognized recording engineer and producer of acoustic music for the recording, radio, television, and film industries. He is the recipient of numerous awards and nominations in the recording industry: his recordings have received nine Grammy awards and 25 Grammy nominations; his radio recordings have received two George Foster Peabody Awards and there have been two Emmy nominations for television programs. A graduate of the Duquesne University School of Music in Pittsburgh PA, Jim has studied audio engineering at the Eastman School of Music and Sender Freies Berlin. During the 1970s, he was employed by National Public Radio and engineered and produced many award-winning classical, jazz, documentary, and news programs. Since 1980 Jim has had a career as an independent audio engineer and producer, living in New York City and has been a frequent lecturer and master-class guest faculty member at leading international institutes. He is a professor of recorded music with the Clive Davis Department of Recorded music in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and was the department’s Chair from 2004 – 2008. He has served as Vice President for Eastern Sections of the Audio Engineering society (AES), chaired the New York Section of the AES and was Chair of the 119th and 123rd AES Conventions. In 2006, Jim was made a Fellow of the AES and has received two AES’ Board of Governors Awards. Jim is also the President of the Audio Engineering Society, 2008-2009.

Address:

Dolby Laboratories
100 Potrero Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94103-4813

Map:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=100+Potrero+Avenue,+San+Francisco,+CA+94103-4813&sll=37.878986,-122.264593&sspn=0.007046,0.012832&gl=us&ie=UTF8&ll=37.769985,-122.407973&spn=0.00748,0.012832&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A

Directions:

http://www.dolby.com/about/contact_us/directions_sf.html

From Peninsula/S.F. Airport/Silicon Valley (Hwy. 101 North) Take Vermont Street Exit. Make immediate left onto Vermont Street. Go 5 blocks and turn left onto Alameda Street. Three blocks up is Potrero Avenue. Dolby is the large, red, 3-story brick building on the corner of Potrero and Alameda.

From Bay Bridge (Hwy. 80 West) Take 9th Street/Civic Center exit. Go to the south onto Harrison Street. Follow Harrison to 10th Street. Turn left onto 10th Street and proceed under freeway overpass onto Potrero Avenue. Dolby is the large, red, 3-story brick building on the corner of Potrero and Alameda.

From Golden Gate Bridge (Hwy. 101 South) Cross Golden Gate Bridge, take the Lombard Street (Hwy. 101) Exit. Follow Hwy. 101 signs up Lombard to Van Ness Avenue. Turn right. Proceed on Van Ness to Fell Street and turn left. Proceed on Fell until it crosses Market Street and becomes 10th Street. Continue on 10th under freeway overpass and bear right onto Potrero Avenue. Dolby is the large, red, 3-story brick building on the corner of Potrero and Alameda.

Parking:

Street parking is not a problem after 7:00 PM