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SUMMARY:AI and the Audio Professional 2024
DESCRIPTION:Agenda \n\n6:30-7 pm: Networking & Light Refreshments\n7-8 pm: Panel Discussion\n8-9 pm: Q&A\n\nPanel Discussion \nIn 2020\, at the height of the pandemic\, we brought you the AI vs the Audio Professional panel discussion\, featuring prominent figures in the audio and music industries. Our diverse conversation centered around the audio professional’s role in shaping the future of AI and our field. But since\, much has changed in the world of AI – and we’re ready for a sequel! \nThe AES San Francisco is inviting you for a live discussion among some of our Section Committee members – and you\, the Audio Pro. Panelists will include audio engineer David Bowles\, engineer / producer Nahuel Bronzini\, composer / synthesist Julius Dobos\, audio director Ken Felton\, immersive audio specialist Eric Foreman\, audio technology innovator Jean-Marc Jot and AESSF Section Chair Loic Maestracci. We will talk about its applications\, usage practice\, ethics\, and whether it’s an exciting opportunity or a threat in 2024 and beyond. \nOne thing for certain\, AI is here to stay and evolve – so don’t miss this exciting conversation! \n \nGet Free Tickets\nOr attend via Zoom\nhttps://ccsf-edu.zoom.us/j/84223452115?pwd=aya26ByXbLeAb4ocNQYUpGhQnFA6Kg.1\nMeeting ID: 842 2345 2115\nPasscode: 325689 \n\n\n\nNahuel Bronzini \nWell-versed in writing and recording string arrangements\, horns\, pop\, folk\, and chamber ensembles\, Nahuel is a master of multifaceted disciplines that come together in every way to support the music and the elevation of each song beyond the concept of genre. Also\, being a musician himself with ties to many Bay Area artists\, his collaborative spirit both inspires and enlivens the local community. One notable example of this was his release entitled “The String Quartet Experience”\, in which he wrote string arrangements for local singer-songwriters\, and gathered everyone together for a filmed showcase that was simply enchanting. Nahuel is a graduate from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and from Escuela de Música Contemporánea (Argentina)\, and studied audio and acoustics at Universidad de Tres de Febrero (Argentina). He has served as Governor of the Recording Academy\, San Francisco Chapter\, as a member of the Producers and Engineers Wing Committee\, and also as a committee member for the Audio Engineering Society\, SF Chapter.\n\n\nJulius Dobos \nJulius Dobos is an award-winning\, platinum-album electronic music and film composer\, sound synthesist and professor of music technology. His music production credits include major movies\, tv shows and Grammy®-winning performers. As forgotten future\, he builds musical universes and creates organic electronic music with a distinct character. His multimedia installations and performances have attracted audiences internationally – the 2019 Los Angeles Human Intelligence Control show featured an inventive musical experience through digitally-tracked physical interaction with the audience. Julius has also engineered\, mastered hundreds of records\, beta-tested and preset-programmed synthesizers and music technology tools for the past three decades. He is currently the Vice Chair of AES San Francisco and the founder\n\n\nDavid Bowles \n \nDavid v.R Bowles formed Swineshead Productions\, LLC as a classical recording production company in 1995. His recordings have been GRAMMY- and JUNO-nominated and critically acclaimed worldwide. His releases in 3D Dolby Atmos can be found on Avie Records\, Delos and Parma Recordings. In collaboration with NYU Steinhardt’s Music Technology programme\, Mr. Bowles researches and teaches 3D audio recording techniques for their Tonmeister Seminar. He has presented his papers on 3D audio gathering at AES (Audio Engineering Society) conferences in São Paulo\, San Francisco and Boston. In addition\, he is currently AES Western Regional Vice President.\n\n\nLoïc Maestracci  \n \nLoïc Maestracci is originally from France where he graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce International\, a 3-year graduate business school that delivers a master in international business. As part of his studies\, he spent 2 semesters abroad: One semester at the Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond\, LA and one semester at the Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires\, Argentina. This gave him an opportunity to see how business was instructed in different countries. On top of his promotion\, he was offered to pursue a dual degree and transferred to California State University in San Bernardino to earn an MBA in Corporate Management and Marketing in addition to his master in international business. Armed with 2 graduate degrees and a passion for media\, technology\, and marketing he started his career in Los Angeles working in marketing for various mobile music companies with many international clients where his international business education gave him an edge. He had the privilege of working with some of the world’s most iconic brands such as Twitter\, Samsung\, Apple\, or SOL Republic. He recently concluded his tenure at Twitter\, contributing to notable campaigns such as the NFL’s Thursday Night Football\, FIFA World Cups\, and NASA’s Mars landing. At Twitter\, Loïc helmed large teams to build these global consumer campaigns. In 2014\, Loic founded Music Expo\, a series of events in San Francisco designed to unite artists\, producers\, engineers\, and industry professionals\, eventually expanding to Miami\, Nashville\, and Boston. Apart from his professional pursuits\, Loïc is a passionate music producer. Under his artist name\, Iguazúl\, he has released several EPs and singles. He is member of the Recording Academy (The Grammys) and since January 2024\, he is the chair of the Audio Engineering Society San Francisco Section. Today Loïc lives in San Francisco with his wife Karen\, their 2 year old son Matteo and their cat Dindi.\n\n\nKen Felton \nKen Felton is an Audio Director and Sound Designer with decades of experience in many different professional audio industries. Ken’s current passion is collaborating with talented game/app/experience teams that value quality audio and are fun to work with. Ken started in pro-audio by touring N. America and running sound reinforcement systems. Ken then learned from talented engineers\, producers\, and artists during his time in the L.A. music business and Film/TV post-production world. In 1994 he moved to Northern California and started working with interactive audio at Electronic Arts. Ken moved to Sony PlayStation in 2006. He continued sound designing and directing while managing the sound design and dialog team in NorCal. Ken joined Spatial Inc. in 2021 and applied all the experience and knowledge collected in his prior pro-audio lives to creating immersive and compelling sound scenes in real world  environments. Since late 2023 Ken is focused on helping to create immersive and healing soundscapes by collaborating with teams developing audio experiences that promote wellbeing and good health. Ken lives in the S.F. Bay Area with his wife- Lynn\, and their two sons- Casey and Quinn. Ken enjoys mountain and road biking\, good wine\, and playing ice hockey.\n\n\nJean-Marc Jot \n \nJean-Marc Jot is a globally recognized audio technology innovator in consumer electronics and pro markets\, lately focusing more particularly on immersive audio\, hearing personalization and music technology innovation. He founded Virtuel Works to help accelerate the development and deployment of audio\, voice and music computing technologies that will power future immersive experiences. Previously\, he initiated and drove the development of novel sound processing technologies\, platforms and standards for virtual and augmented reality\, gaming\, broadcast\, cinema\, and music creation – with Magic Leap\, Creative Labs\, DTS / Xperi\, and iZotope / Native Instruments. Before relocating to California in the late 90s\, he conducted research at IRCAM in Paris\, where he created the Spat software library for immersive music creation and performance. He is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society\, a regular speaker in industry and academic events\, and has authored numerous publications and patents on digital audio signal processing.\n\n\nErik Foreman \n \nErik Foreman is an immersive audio expert\, consultant\, and educator. He worked in-house at Dolby Labs for eight years\, where he created and demonstrated showcase material for consumer experiences of all kinds\, for all types of content. Foreman was a sound designer and re-recording mixer at Skywalker Sound for 16 years prior. His experience encompasses film\, TV\, interactive\, and public exhibits. His work has been recognized with multiple industry awards. Foreman is an active member of the local AES section as a board member at large.
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LOCATION:CCSF Ocean Campus\, MUB 140\, 55 Frida Kahlo Way\, MUB 140\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94112\, United States
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SUMMARY:Experimental Music Panel Discussion and Performance
DESCRIPTION:Agenda \n\n6-7 pm: Welcome Reception\n7-8 pm: Panel Discussion\n8-8:30 pm: Q&A\n8:30-10: Performance\n\nPanel Discussion \nA diverse set of music experts and practicing musicians will be sharing their unique viewpoints on what experimental music is in 2024\, what kind of creative approaches they are applying to push the boundaries of the art form\, what the future holds for experimental musicians\, and more. The panelists will discuss\, exchange thoughts about their craft\, tools\, methods\, processes – while inspiring (and maybe even shocking) attendees by revealing what music can be.  \nPanelists: Julius Dobos\, Frank Martin\, Karen Stackpole\, William Winant\, Krys Bobrowski\nFacilitator: Brent Miller \nPerformance: \nFollowing the discussion\, panelists will give an improvisational live performance\, collaborating on stage the first time together.\n \nAES Members can register for FREE by entering their membership number in the promo code field. \nGet Tickets\n\n\n\nKaren Stackpole \nDrummer/percussionist Karen Stackpole started out as a rock drummer in the late ‘80s and soon became fascinated with improvised music and multi-media collaboration. She became active in the creative music scene\, playing new music and stretching beyond established boundaries as well as working with dancers\, spoken word\, and experimental film. She has a long-standing passion for gongs. In her exploration of metals\, she has cultivated some distinctive techniques for drawing harmonics out of tam tams with various implements. She specializes in dynamic soundscapes and textures and has contributed gong sounds to more conventional musical genres as well as recording source material for film soundtracks. In addition to solo work\, she has performed and recorded with various projects including Machine Shop: Live Amplified Gong Experience (a duo with electronics master\, Drew Webster)\, Sabbaticus Rex\, Ghost in the House\, Vorticella\, the Francis Wong Unit\, and the rock band Steel Hotcakes\, as well as being involved in numerous other collaborations. Most recently her work has focused on duo performances and recordings with experimental instrument builder Krys Bobrowski (Gliss Glass & Gongs)\, contrabassist Bill Noertker (Talking Frog)\, and guitarist extraordinaire\, Fred Frith.\n\n\nFranck Martin \nBorn and raised in France\, a 20-year resident of Fiji and traveller to all the Pacific Islands\, Franck Martin is now based out of San Francisco. His musical journey encompasses this multicultural experience. His search for sounds\, emotions\, going outside the rules\, led him to experiment with micro-tones and quadraphonic music using either his modular synthesizer or producing music in 5.1 surround sound\, ambisonic or Dolby Atmos/Spatial Audio. Franck Martin performs long sets\, 15-30mn or more of live music on his quadraphonic modular synthesizer. He produces electronic music\, organizes and promotes well attended events and concerts.\n\n\nJulius Dobos \nJulius Dobos is an award-winning\, platinum-album electronic music and film composer\, sound synthesist and mastering engineer\, best known for his eleven album releases and film scores. His scoring and production credits include Dragon Ball Z\, NCIS\, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan\, Paul Blart: Mall Cop\, Zookeeper\, and work with Grammy®-winning performers. Under his pseudonym\, forgotten future\, Julius builds musical universes and creates epic-ambient organic electronic music with a distinct character\, which heavily relies on cutting edge musical sound design and philosophical themes. Dobos’ digital installations and live multi-media performances promote the organic expression in electronic music and have attracted audiences internationally. His 2019 Los Angeles Human Intelligence Control show featured an inventive musical experience through digitally-tracked physical interaction with the audience. With a background in composition\, sound synthesis and audio production\, Dobos has also engineered\, mastered hundreds of records\, beta-tested and preset-programmed synthesizers and music technology tools for the past three decades. Dobos is a university professor\, the Vice Chair of AES San Francisco\, and the founder of the AI-Free Organization. He enjoys designing unique sonic concepts in his Studio CS\, a modular space is filled with vintage and cutting edge electronic musical instruments\, giving talks on the topics of creativity and electronic music culture.\n\n\nWilliam Winant \nWilliam Winant has collaborated with some of the most innovative and creative musicians of our time\, including Joelle Leandre\, John Cage\, Iannis Xenakis\, Pierre Boulez\, Frank Zappa\, Keith Jarrett\, Roscoe Mitchell\, Anthony Braxton\, Fred Frith\, James Tenney\, Terry Riley\, John Zorn\, Cecil Taylor\, Gerry Hemingway\, Mark Dresser\, Barry Guy\, Marilyn Crispell\, George Lewis\, Steve Reich and Musicians\, Nexus\, Charles Wuorinen\, Jean-Philippe Collard\, Frederic Rzewski\, Ursula Oppens\, Joan LaBarbara\, Annea Lockwood\, Danny Elfman/Oingo Boingo\, Ash Fure\, Sonic Youth\, Marc Ribot\, Keith Rowe\, Ikue Mori\, Joey Barron\, Lin Culbertson\, Bill Frisell\, Yo-Yo Ma\, Rova Saxophone Quartet\, Lawrence “Butch” Morris\, and the Kronos String Quartet.\n\n\nKrys Bobrowski \n \nKrys Bobrowski is a composer\, sound artist and musician based in Oakland CA. In addition to French horn\, she plays acoustic and electronic instruments of her own design. She is an active performer and improviser\, a long-time member of the improvisation ensemble Vorticella\, the Bobrowski/Stackpole Gliss Glass Gong project\, and a current member of Wendy Reid’s Bird Ensemble. Bobrowski earned her M.F.A. in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College and her B.A. in Computers and Music from Dartmouth College where she first met Jon Appleton and Christian Wolff and became interested in electronics and experimental music. At Mills she studied computer music with Larry Polansky and developed an interest in interactive computer music. She has a long association with the Exploratorium as a sound exhibit developer\, artist-in-residence\, guest performer and speaker. Currently\, she teaches and directs the Electronic Music Program at the College of San Mateo. Bobrowski has presented her work in a number of music festivals and venues including the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival\, the Metronom Festival in Barcelona\, the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival in NYC\, the Ex Teresa Arte Actual Sound Art Festival in Mexico City\, and at the Konzerthaus Berlin with the Unitedberlin ensemble. Recent commissions include a work for choir and kelp horns for the SF Bay Area Chamber Choir\, a wind activated sound installation for Aeolian Day at a park in Oakland\, and a piece for Dan Goode’s Flexible Orchestra which included ten bassoons\, NYC.\n\n\nBrent Miller \nBrent Miller (b. 1978) is a composer\, performer\, and arts administrator based in San Francisco\, CA. Recent projects include works for Rova Saxophone Quartet\, violinist Eric km Clark (Southland Ensemble\, EAR Unit)\, Dither Electric Guitar Quartet\, and Sqwonk. He has received grants from Zellerbach Family Foundation and American Composers Forum to fund his work. He studied composition at the University of Arkansas with Robert Mueller and University of Missouri-Kansas City with James Mobberley and Paul Rudy. Brent is active in the arts administration field founding and serving as Managing Director for The Center for New Music in San Francisco\, a work/performance space that supports creative music\, as well as managing Rova:Arts\, a non-profit organization that supports Rova Saxophone Quartet. He also has worked with Other Minds\, helping to produce the annual Other Minds Festival\, and is a founding member of The Collected\, a group dedicated to the advancement of new music. \n\n\n\n\n 
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LOCATION:Center for New Music\, 55 Taylor Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
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