AES San Francisco Section

POSTPONED: Experiments Adding Height Channels to Nature Recordings
2020-04-03 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | De Anza High School Auditorium, 5000 Valley View Road, Richmond, CA, 94803
We regret to inform you that the “Adding Height Channels to Nature Recordings” event scheduled for Friday, April 3rd at De Anza High School has been postponed due to the cancellation of all events at this time in the De Anza theater. We thank you for your support, and we hope to have a new date soon.
Best regards,
AES San Francisco

Dan Dugan and Steve Sergeant, Nature Sounds Society

Since natural environments are inherently immersive, increasing spatial resolution in soundscape recordings of those environments can enhance verisimilitude. The presenters are Nature Sounds Society recordists who have recorded in surround for many years and recently experimented by adding height channels. These recordings are made with a scientific protocol to support future biological research. Research permits are granted by National and State parks for this work, a privilege requiring annual reports and submission of materials to the parks’ archives. Dugan and Sergeant will illustrate the microphone arrays used, and play highlights from their recordings.

The Nature Sounds Society is an organization dedicated to the preservation, appreciation and creative use of natural sounds:

http://naturesounds.org

Dan Dugan
Dan Dugan started his career as a theatrical lighting designer, then switched to sound. He was the first person to be credited as “Sound Designer,” in 1968 at ACT. Dugan invented the automatic microphone mixer in 1974. His products are currently used on television talk shows, news panels, sports commentary, presidential debates, and wherever there are multiple unscripted talkers.

Dugan has been a technical advisor to the Nature Sounds Society (NSS) for over twenty-five years and is a board member. He has recorded soundscapes in many national parks and monuments, including Muir Woods, Yosemite, Pinnacles, Joshua Tree, Lassen, Yellowstone, Olympic, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Sequoia-Kings Canyon, Lava Beds, and Haleakala.

Steve Sergeant
Steve Sergeant began his audio career in a classical recording studio, public radio, and on a television remote truck before transitioning to field engineering for early generations of open-reel digital audio recorders. He later worked as a lead engineer for broadcast system integration, designing control rooms and systems for ESPN, TV Globo, QVC, and many others. He is currently a staff applications engineer at Dolby Laboratories.

Sergeant is a long-time volunteer backpacking instructor, and produced an early documentary podcast on wilderness recreation. As a board member of the Nature Sounds Society, he has been conducting a research project to inventory soundscapes in Northern California’s largest state park, Henry W Coe, since 2017.

A History of the Technology of Physical Modeling Synthesis for Musical Instruments
2020-05-06 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Physical modeling of musical instruments is a fun and deeply technical topic, drawing on many fields including physics, acoustics, digital signal processing and music. Modern physical modeling technology has been in development since as early as the 1930s. At the present time, it’s possible for each of us to be Jimi Hendrix, with just a small device in the palm of our hands. In 1994 physical modeling was poised to be the “Next Big Thing,” but something happened to disrupt its evolution. We will cover what happened, with lots of lovely sound examples, and why physical modeling is a big deal again!

The presentation will be by Pat Scandalis with special co-host Jordan Rudess.

Pat Scandalis, CTO and acting CEO, moForte Inc. Pat has worked for a number of Silicon Valley high tech companies. He has held lead engineering positions at National Semiconductor, Teradyne, Apple and Sun. He has spent the past 26 years working in digital media. He was an Audio DSP researcher at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He co-founded and was the VP of engineering for Staccato Systems, a successful spinout of Stanford/CCRMA that was sold to Analog Devices in 2001. He has held VP positions at TuneTo.com, Jarrah Systems and Liquid Digital Media. He most recently ran Liquid Digital Media, which developed and operated all online digital music e-commerce properties for Walmart. He holds a BSc in Physics from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and is currently a visiting scholar at CCRMA, Stanford University.

Jordan Rudess is keyboardist for bands such as Dream Theater and the Dixie Dregs, as well as founder of the music software company Wizdom Music.

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A Conversation with Women Working in Audio Post
2020-06-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Online
The Bay Area chapters of AES and SoundGirls are belatedly celebrating Women’s History Month with a conversation among local Music Editors, Mixers, and Sound Designers discussing their craft, workflow, background and favorite tips/tricks/gear to attendees at this free online event. Participants include Pixar Animation Studios, Skywalker Sound, and Wilmer Sound.

Rachael Bigelow is currently a Music Editor at Pixar Animation Studios. After spending 8 years working in post production for advertising and film, she decided to focus her path back to her passion of music. With her music theory and research skills along with her gained knowledge of the filmmaking process, Rachael obtained her position as Music Editor. She collaborates closely with directors to establish and implement the musical language for their films.
When not at the studio, you can find Rachael singing with her friends, finding new hiking spots and planning new travel adventures.

Danielle Dupre has been working in professional audio for over ten years. She’s currently a re-recording mixer for feature film and television at Skywalker Sound, where she’s been since 2012. Her work covers a wide spectrum from big budget projects for Disney and Marvel to indie Sundance films and television series in between.

Jennifer Rowekamp is a music editor and composer currently working as an Associate Music Editor at Pixar Animation Studios. She holds a B.M. from the University of Cincinnati and an M.M. from New York University. She has previously worked as an assistant at the sample library company Cinesamples and to media composer Jeff Russo and has composed for Gen-Z Media’s Peabody-nominated podcast, Treasure Island 2020.

Veronica Toledo is currently the Assistant Music & Sound Editor at Pixar Animation Studios. She formerly interned at both Fantasy Recording Studios and Women’s Audio Mission. She has been involved as a production sound assistant for projects including “Toy Story 4”, “Onward”, and “Soul”. Veronica holds a BA in Economics from Mills College and is the co-chair for the Bay Area Chapter of SoundGirls.

Gwendolyn Whittle is an Academy Award nominated Supervising Sound Editor, nominated for “Avatar” and “Tron: Legacy.” She works at Skywalker Sound, lending creative input to the soundtracks of blockbusters, documentaries, episodic television and independent features. Gwen has a BFA in Film from NYU and an Honorary PhD from Academy of Art University. She also has more than 25 MPSE nominations and 6 wins (“Titanic,” “Saving Private Ryan,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Super 8,” “Epic,” and “Carne e Arena”).

Sae Wilmer began her career in finance, business development, sales, and operations with some of the largest tech companies in the world.
Sae decided to form their own company with her husband Alex to address the problems that they recognized with the status quo. They dreamed of a company that prioritized quality. Quality of audio, quality of customer experience and, above all, quality of the environment for the incredible artisans that work for Wilmer Sound.

Yu Gu (Rain) is a Sound Designer at Wilmer Sound. While working there, she has had a key role on the Netflix animated series “Go, Go, Cory Carson”, and worked on a live action feature film called Collisions. Rain has also contributed to video games such as Hitman 2. While her primary role is as a sound designer, she also works on Foley and field recording. Rain holds an MA in Sound Design from The Academy of Art University.

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Copyright Law for Creators/Makers/DIY
2020-06-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Online
Mark Pearson (ARC Law) will present on intellectual property concerns of the creators/makers/DIY manufacturers in our AES SF Section. He will discuss:

US & California Law
Patent Law (U.S.)
Trademark & Registration
Copyright Registration
Copyright Infringement

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Mark A. Pearson is the principal counsel at ARC Law Group, a law firm focused on advising Creative, Talented and Entrepreneurial clients in the areas of business, entertainment, sports and technology law. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, but with clients in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Nashville, Mark is a former award-winning television producer who spent the past decade advising some of the hardest working acts in the entertainment biz. His clients include international touring artists Con Brio, Front Country, Brian King Joseph (America’s Got Talent) and DJ Mark Farina, as well as, entertainment giants Rock The Bells (LL Cool J), Twitch, TuneGo, Caffeine and Fandor. He also served as production counsel for Academy Award nominee, Borrowed Time, and was recently awarded the Governor’s Citation Medallion for his service to the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmy® Award). You can reach Mark at mark@arclg.com / www.arclg.com.

A.I. and the Audio & Music Professional
2020-09-09 17:00 - 19:00 | Online
Abstract:
A.I. and machine learning have become components of our audio and music production tools. From simple functions to fully automated mixing and composition algorithms, the influence of A.I. in our projects has been getting deeper. Do these technologies make us more productive? More creative? Should we embrace or reject these new ways of producing? Will they replace our skills? Do they threaten our jobs?
On this AES San Francisco panel, leading designers and expert users of audio & music production tools share their experiences, ideas and views on the present and future of artificial intelligence and machine learning-based audio applications. We will hear from “both sides”: those who build and enjoy, and those who reject using A.I.-equipped tools. Most importantly, the event will create an opportunity for guests and panelists to debate the pros and cons – and may even influence each other’s approaches through this idea exchange.
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Guest bios:
Dr. Maya Ackerman is CEO/Co-founder of WaveAI and Computer Science & Engineering Professor at Santa Clara University. Named “Woman of influence” by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, Ackerman’s work has been widely showcased in the press, including NBC News, New Scientist, Grammy.com, and international television stations. Dr. Ackerman had been an invited speaker at the United Nations, Google, IBM Research, and Stanford University, amongst other venues. She earned her PhD from the University of Waterloo, and held postdoctoral fellowships at Caltech and UC San Diego. Maya is also an opera singer and music producer.
Alex Wankhammer is one of the founders of sonible, a young audio company from Austria best known for their AI powered plug-ins. He studied audio engineering with a focus on digital signal processing and Music Information Retrieval and is now responsible for product management, marketing and business development at sonible.
Julius Dobos is an award-winning, platinum-album electronic music and film composer, mix engineer and sound synthesist, best known for his eleven album releases and film scores. Performing under his pseudonym, forgotten future, his digital installations and live events, such as the 2019 Human Intelligence Control show, have featured audio experiences that promote human interaction and organic expression in electronic music. With a composition background, EE and MA degrees, Dobos has engineered records for over two decades and launched one of the first non-automated online music mastering services in 2010. He is a Distinguished Professor at Cogswell University of Silicon Valley. He enjoys beta-testing audio tools and speaking on production culture and education reform topics.
Shahan Nercessian is a senior research engineer at iZotope. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University in 2007, 2009, and 2012 respectively. His Ph.D. research was focused on multi-resolution algorithms for image processing inspired by human visual system phenomena. In 2012, he became a member of Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. In 2017, he joined iZotope, where he develops new audio DSP algorithms and machine learning techniques for their product line. He is an avid jazz musician, and continues to produce and play his own genre-bending original music.
Steve Albini is a recording engineer and member of the rock band Shellac of North America. He has worked on several thousand records, for well-known bands (Pixies, Nirvana, Breeders, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant) and working bands for whom music means everything. He lives in Chicago, where he owns and runs Electrical Audio, a recording studio that opened in 1997. He is deadly serious about everything. He is married, likes to cook and has three cats and a bicycle.
Jonathan Wyner, AES Governor and President-elect, is Chief Engineer at M Works Mastering, Technologist, Education Director for iZotope in Cambridge, MA, Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston. A musician and performer, he’s mastered and produced more than 5000 recordings during the last 30 + years. Credits include James Taylor, David Bowie, Aerosmith, Kiri Te Kanawa, Aimee Mann, London Symphony, Miles Davis, Semisonic, Thelonius Monk, Pink Floyd, Cream, Bruce Springsteen and Nirvana. In 2012 he authored ‘Audio Mastering: Essential Practices’ published by Hal Leonard/Berklee Press. He’s authored undergraduate and graduate courses for Berkleemusic Online. Jonathan lectures on music and audio topics around the world having presented with George Massenburg, Doug Sax and Bob Ludwig among others.

Fantastic Negrito Engineering Team
2020-11-12 11:30 - 13:30
The San Francisco Audio Engineering Society welcomes the engineering crew behind the Bay Area’s own multi-Grammy winning Fantastic Negrito’s latest two albums, Please Don’t Be Dead, which won the Best Blues Contemporary Album Grammy in 2019 and the newly released Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
Nahuel Bronzini, Zollie Fears, Migui Maloles and Trevor Orriss will discuss their collaboration with Xavier Dphrepaulezz—the singer-songwriter/producer who records as Fantastic Negrito, and how they translate his creative vision into each album. The engineers will show files and demo songs to illustrate and explain their work process, demystify the secrets to creating a great independent album and answer your questions. Part way through, Xavier Dphrepaulezz will also join our meeting to talk about his vision of the relationship and process between the artist and engineering team.
Since winning NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert in 2015, Fantastic Negrito has released three albums filled with his unique sound, choosing to work in small Bay Area studios, including Dphrepaulezz’s own Blackball Universe, with local independent engineers, reuniting most of the Please Don’t Be Dead team for this year’s Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
Join AES San Francisco for this special lunch time meeting, which will happen over Zoom. Advance registration through Eventbrite required and registered guests can also submit questions in ahead of the event.

Speaker Bios:
Xavier Dphrepaulezz
When you listen to Fantastic Negrito, you’re invited to hear the story of life after destruction. Each song is a real story about a musician from Oakland who experienced the highs of a million-dollar record deal, the lows of a near fatal car accident that left him in a coma, and is now in the midst of a rebirth that took him from the streets of Oakland to the world stage.
The narrative of this man is as important as the sound, because the narrative is the sound.Songs born from a long hard life channeled through black roots music. Slide guitar, drums, piano. Urgent, desperate, edgy.
Negrito burst on to the national radar by winning the inaugural NPR Tiny Desk contest in 2015, and has since won Grammys for his first two albums: The Last Days of Oakland (2017) and Please Don’t Be Dead (2019). His third album, Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? was released in August 2020.
Nahuel Bronzini is a Grammy (R) Award winning music producer, arranger and sound engineer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He works out of Airship Laboratories Studios and his private mixing and production room in Berkeley, CA.
Nahuel has worked with a wide range of artists, from writing string arrangements and playing shows and engineering studio sessions with R&B legends Tony Toni Toné!, to engineering Fantastic Negrito’s Grammy winning Please Don’t Be Dead and new release Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?, and creating multi artist collaborations with Bay Area favorites in his own release entitled “The String Quartet Experience”. Nahuel is a multifaceted musician and producer/engineer that feels at home both on stage and in the studio.
Nahuel’s work focuses on the blending of acoustic instrumentation into pop and folk productions, making use of chamber type ensembles such as string quartets and horn sections as a complement to the work of solo artists and bands.
As a mixing engineer, Nahuel’s approach comes from a musical standpoint. Nahuel puts the audio tools and techniques at the service of the music and the artistic intent of the song. From folk to rock, to r&b and synth-heavy pop, Nahuel hears every project as a musical work beyond genre and creates fluid mixes that elevate the production and embrace the song.
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 is currently a Governor of the Recording Academy, San Francisco Chapter and a member of the Producers and Engineers Wing Committee, as well as a committee member for the AES SF Chapter.
Zollie Fears is an Audio Engineer and Technician, specializing in the art of recording and mixing. Starting his journey as an Audio Engineer in 2009, where Zollie was the go-to engineer for all his friends and classmates in high school. Recording music from Hip Hop/ Rap, R&B, to Rock and Roll, Pop music and even Death Metal. Through these experiences, he has developed a love and respect for multiple genres and the process of what goes into making music. After high School, he dedicated himself to learning more about Recording, Mixing, Mastering, Music business, and Live Engineering for events and shows.
Starting his growth at Chabot College, Zollie was taking classes instructed by Michael Rosen (Grammy winning Producer/Engineer) who taught and challenged his students to really learn and “know their” stuff. Even though Zollie was probably not his favorite student (with other students citing that Zollie was sleeping underneath the desk every few days in class), he took to the lessons like a sponge to water and absorb every lesson and passed all the tests given to him. Zollie’s next growth stage came after leaving Chabot in 2014 to be the Music Lead for an Arts Program at a local youth center named REACH Ashland Youth Center. By teaching youth ages 11-24, Zollie was given the opportunity to give his passion for music and engineering by teaching them about music production, basics of audio engineering and ultimately creating music with them. In the same time frame, Zollie participated in various recording and live music sessions learning more on the job and picking the brains of many Music Artists, Engineers and Producers. By absorbing knowledge from AkaFrank (Music Artist), Duckwrth (Music Artist), GQ (Music Artist), Jason Cropper (Producer), Kuk Harrell (Grammy winning Producer), and many more, Zollie developed and shaped his approach and views to music as making people feel than focusing too much on the technical aspects.
In 2018, on a trip with his Arts Program family, they headed to a studio space named BlackBall Universe to present Music Artist, Fantastic Negrito, with artwork based on his album “Please Don’t Be Dead”. During this moment is where Zollie met Negrito and was given an opportunity to stop by and do some recording work with him. By showing up at the date and time of Negrito’s choosing, Zollie passed what Fantastic Negrito called “The Oakland Test” and began working with him and becoming part of his team. Since then, Zollie has shared many memorable music sessions with Fantastic Negrito and continues his growth as an Audio Engineer learning from him, the team he became a part of, and challenging himself with other projects and ventures he’s currently pursuing.
Migui Maloles is a 2x Grammy-Award Winning, Multi-Platinum and Multi-Gold RIAA certified Recording Engineer, Mixer and Producer. He has been making records since 2010 across several different genres. In addition, Migui is an accomplished touring Front of House and Monitor Engineer. He has toured extensively mixing Front of House, Monitors and Tour Managing since 2016 in well renowned venues, theaters, amphitheaters and festivals around the world.
His goal as an Engineer is to sonically realize and accurately translate the intent of the artist creatively, while still preserving the integrity of their vision.
Trevor Orriss is a freelance audio engineer and producer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a Graduate of the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences, an avid Radiohead fan, and a mediocre piano player.

Dude… Where's My Data??? Information Security for Media Producers
2021-02-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom
System continuity means business continuity. Keep your clients happy and your invoices rolling out by covering as many free and inexpensive information security controls as you can. Your high-value data is a ransomware target, but you can defend against the majority of attacks by taking advantage of simple, low-cost resources like these. For more details, visit Anthem Mastering.

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Presented by Rob Schlette, Anthem Mastering, St. Louis
Rob Schlette is owner and chief mastering engineer at Anthem Mastering. His career in music production began in 1995, working as a tracking engineer, Pro Tools editor, and eventually, mixing engineer. In 2005, Rob opened Anthem Mastering to provide specialized mastering services to hundreds of independent and small-label clients from all over the U.S.
Rob’s work also includes design and project management in integrated cloud workflows for online music services. Beyond the studio, Rob is an experienced educator, including 10 years on the faculty at McNally Smith College of Music, and dozens of conference presentations.

Telefunken Factory Virtual Tour
2021-03-09 17:00 - 19:30 | Zoom
Alan Venitosh will give us a tour of the Telefunken factory, moderated by John Krivit.
This factory manufactures microphones in South Windsor, CT. This will be about an hour of the camera following Alan around the factory, explaining what the camera sees, followed by questions and answers. John will be monitoring the chat channel, gathering questions as they are posed along the way.

Hosted by:
John Krivit, Past President of the AES, and Alan Venitosh, Director of Operations, Telefunken

Moving Forward & Post-Pandemic Pivots: Managing a Successful Audio Business
2021-04-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom
January 16th, 2020 kicked off the official opening of the NAMM show to the full audience. Attendees were wide-eyed at the [latest-iteration] expansion of the Anaheim Convention Center, and the wonderment of all NAMM has to offer. Less than 60 days later, the entire world changed for audio engineers, along with their video production counterparts and creative artist peers. Previously, this presentation was designed for new recording studios and record labels. With so many audio engineers having to pivot in this post-lockdown era, we’ll cover topics on right-setting your current business or reinventing your audio business.

Areas to be covered:

accessing legal guidance
local support from your municipalities, state and national organizations
choosing an entity structure
basic accounting/bookkeeping/banking options
insurance consideration
building a team (inside or outside your organization)
production agreements (artists, work-for-hire, letters of direction)
copyright/patent
sync licensing
managing royalties

and more…

AESLA & AESSF Present: Evolving Your Audio Career
2021-06-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
Evolving Your Audio Career with John Krivit, Jonathan Ruest, Rachel Ludeman and Brad Delava
This is a co-presentation with the San Francisco and Los Angeles AES Sections.
AES Past President John Krivit shares 15 important strategies for anyone at any age to advance and evolve their audio career. He’ll be joined by three experts who will comment on their own personal experiences evolving from student to professional.
Rachel Ludeman * Employment Coordinator at The Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences
Jonathan Ruest * Head of Sales & Business Development, Neumann
Brad Delava * Founder/CEO of Clique Digital Marketing
Join us on Tuesday June 29th at 7:00p PDT (10:00p EDT)!
Sign up in advance here. The Zoom link will be provided to registered attendees through Eventbrite.

Speaker Bios:
Brad Delava
While attending The New England Institute of Art from 2008 until 2011, Brad led the school’s AES Student Chapter, organized local AES events, and won the student recording competition at the 2010 AES show in San Francisco, CA. Prior to graduating, Brad began working with Apogee Electronics – where he would eventually spend the first 9 years of his professional career. While he started as an intern – packing boxes in the warehouse and fulfilling other various tasks – Brad joined the marketing team soon after graduating and moving back to Los Angeles full time. Over those years, Brad was responsible for all of Apogee’s PR, Artist Relations, Advertising, Events, Product Launches, Copywriting and managing a variety of partnerships. The small and scrappy Apogee team as well as his broadly defined responsibilities allowed him to have his hand in virtually every aspect of the business and sharpen his skills in a multitude of areas. Working with artists such as Foo Fighters, Diplo, Guns N’ Roses, Adele, Beyonce and Justin Timberlake as well as strategically coordinating Apogee’s partnerships with Apple, AVID, Sennheiser, The Recording Academy and KCRW are among his proudest accomplishments in this role.
In 2018, Brad left Apogee to start his own digital advertising and media agency — a far departure from the world of audio he had known up until that point. Since then, his agency (Clique Digital Marketing) has run campaigns for clients such as SanDisk, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Chevrolet, Quiznos, Yale Locks and many others. His agency is a trusted partner of The Trade Desk – one of the largest platforms for programmatic digital advertising and this has afforded him the opportunity to consult for some of the top agencies in the country as well as hedge funds looking to invest in the highly-lucrative advertising industry. He and his company are currently responsible for directly managing roughly $50-million in annual advertising spend for their clients and partners.
John Krivit
John Krivit has been teaching audio technology classes at colleges in Massachusetts since 1996. He is a Past-President of the international Audio Engineering Society serving 2015-2016. He was the Chair of the AES Education Committee from 2010 to 2015 where he built a vibrant global community of educators, students and institutions. His work as an educator has been defined by an unrelenting passion for connecting his students to gainful and rewarding careers in all facets of the audio industry. John served as Chair of the 2018 AES Conference on Audio Archiving, Preservation & Restoration at the US Library of Congress and was Chair of the 2018 and 2019 AES High School Audio Educators Conferences. Currently, he is Director of Education at Professional Audio Design of Hanover, Massachusetts and does consulting with other manufacturers of audio technology. John chronicles the events and opportunities available to audio students of all ages through his “Hey Audio Student” Facebook group. John Krivit lives at the intersection of audio, education and industry and continues to speak at audio events around the world.
AES Awards
In 2019, John Krivit was presented with the AES Board of Governors Award in recognition of chairing the 2018 International AES Conference on Audio Archiving, Preservation & Restoration.
In 2019, John Krivit was presented with the AES Fellowship Award for conspicuous commitment to audio student education and mentorship.
Non-AES Awards & Award Nominations
2002 Inabeth Miller Outstanding Teacher Award
2008 Norm Prescott Outstanding Teacher Award
2014 Certificate of Merit from the Boston AES Section for dedicated service to the Audio Engineering Society and valuable contributions to Audio Education throughout the world.
2018 Board of Governors Award for Chairing the 2017 AES Conference on Audio Archiving, Preservation & Restoration at the US Library of Congress
Rachel Ludeman
Employment Coordinator at The Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences. CRAS is a premiere, top rated technical school specializing in audio engineering and music production. Her work involves aiding alumni of the program, preparing and guiding them in obtaining work in the audio industry.
Rachel takes pride in the strong connections and relationships she has cultivated in the industry over the past 11 years.
Joining forces with employers and facility owners across the United States, she loves connecting the dots and linking them up with their newest qualified employees.
Jonathan Rues
From an early age Jonathan had a passion for all things audio. After interning at a local recording studio during his high school years, he went on to study Audio at Emerson College in Boston, MA. It is here he began to become intrigued in the business of audio through working with various manufacturers to host events with the campus AES student section he was a member of. Shortly after college, now living in Los Angeles, Jonathan began working in sales for Apogee Electronics Corporation. For the last six years, Jonathan has been working for the Sennheiser Electronics organization. Having started as an Area Sales Manager in the professional division, Jonathan is now tasked with heading up the sales and business development for Neumann in the Americas.

Spatial Audio Lab Tour
2021-08-26 19:00 - 21:00
AES members are invited for this special tour of Spatial Audio Lab. Sign up through Eventbrite link.
Current Covid-19 protocols for Alameda County requires masks.
Sound that reshapes experiences.
We’ll explore the technology and meet the team.
Spatial powers immersive sound experiences that transform the places we work, play and stay. User-friendly software and apps enable creators to make living, breathing sonic worlds. Powerful audio tools drive immersive, three-dimensional sound that makes spaces feel bigger, or more intimate, or more alive. Anywhere you can imagine, with Spatial you can be there.

Car Entertainment at Dolby
2022-06-23 09:00 - 13:00
Audio Engineering Society San Francisco members are invited to a special in-person demonstration of Dolby Atmos in the car. With Dolby Atmos, sound comes alive, putting drivers and passengers at the center of the music, movies and podcasts they love. To immerse you in the power of Dolby Atmos, we’re hosting an event at the renowned Dolby Cinema within Dolby’s Global Headquarters. You’ll hear from experts at Dolby and Lucid talk about our partnership and innovations, as well as insights from experts in the music industry, to learn more about Dolby’s technology and how you can deliver this premium quality entertainment experience for your customers.

This event will also feature a Lucid Air, Motor Trend’s 2022 Care of the Year, to let you experience firsthand how Lucid is bringing customers an in-car audio experience more immersive than any you/ve heard before, created by Dolby Atmos. Once drivers and passengers feel the subtle detail and clarity of Dolby Atmos in the car, they won’t want it any other way.
AGENDA
Thursday, June 23rd, 2022
9:00am-10:00am Welcome, Registration, and Car Demos
10:00am-12:00pm – Presentation and Discussion
12:00pm-1:00pm – Car Demos

DAW vs DAW
2022-11-19 13:30 - 15:00 | CA, United States
This AES San Francisco Audio Education Series live+streaming event will put five of the most popular DAWs head-to-head in a friendly competition! Five audio industry professionals will demonstrate functions from basic to advanced as they execute various challenges in real time in their respective DAWs. You will see the screens of Logic, Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Cubase, and Studio One. While beginners will get a good idea about how to efficiently approach simple audio tasks in the various programs, committed users of any DAW will find out about the truths and myths of the “competition” – and maybe even leave compelled to switch over to a new favorite.
This is a livestreamed event.
Speaker Bios
Phil Hawkins (panelist: Studio One)
Phil is an accomplished audio engineer and has worked on recordings by Ray Obiedo, David K. Mathews, Tuck and Patti, Pete Escovedo, Disney Internet Group and many others. Phil has also done complete video productions for artist EPKs, documentary films and product videos for companies such as Lauten Audio, Hudson Music and the United States Air Force. He is a full-time faculty member at Mission College where he has taught Music Production and Audio Engineering courses since 2004.
Matt Blostein (panelist: Cubase)
Matt Blostein is currently the Director of Music Technology and Recording Arts at Cabrillo College near Santa Cruz, CA. He has also taught graduate and undergraduate Music Technology courses at Five Towns College, University of Valley Forge, and Manhattan School of Music. He has an undergraduate degree in Jazz Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, a graduate degree in Music Technology from the University of Valley Forge, studied orchestration at the Mannes School of Music, film scoring with Rick Baitz, and game audio design at Berklee College of Music.
Matt has composed and produced music for television, film, commercials, games, and production music libraries, with his music being featured on over 500 TV shows, including scoring original music for two Nickelodeon series and a theme for a major network news program. Previous to his work composing and producing music for media, Matt spent many years touring as a saxophonist with bands such as Maynard Ferguson, The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and the Blostein / Sperrazza Quartet, performing in venues such as the Montreux Jazz Fest, North Sea Jazz Fest, Thailand Cultural Center, Kennedy Center, Ravinia Center and many more.
John “JD” David (panelist: Ableton Live)
Early interest in sound and audio lead to interdisciplinary physics, music, CS and EE studies. JD completed a Bachelor’s degree in Physic and Music from Bates College in Lewiston Maine. Inspired by their special course in loudspeaker design, he began working in industry as a loudspeaker System Engineer with a/d/s/-Apogee Acoustics in 1997, then moved to Boston Acoustics in 1998 to serve first as Transducer Engineer for three years. This led to a role there as Systems Engineer and Project Manager at BA on their new Integrated Products team. In 2005, attracted by the lure of San Francisco and the Bay Area, JD commenced work as an Applications Engineer at Dolby Labs, In 2007, he took over as Manager of DSP Implementation application team, and led that team for four years, focused on Dolby audio codec and post-processing algorithm implementation in SoC’s, DSP’s, Android/iOS and PC/macOS software libraries. In 2012, JD transitioned into Product Management at Dolby, leading development of studio software products used for Dolby Atmos content creation. Since 2017 he has consulted to the industry and private individuals while working on his own musical productions. Clients have included software plugin companies, recording studio professionals, corporate clients designing mixed-use presentation and recording facilities and homeowners adopting Dolby Atmos. He has been using Ableton Live for over 14 years, both for his own work and for recording and producing music for local vocalists. Under the name Palindrome, he crafts unique experimental breakbeat, downtempo and ambient musical works. He also enjoys occasional work as a DJ, and a live-sound FOH engineer for concerts and special events, and offers PA rental and on-site systems engineering for such events too. His hobbies include guitar, hand percussion, outdoor sports and travel. JD has been a full member of the Audio Engineering Society for over 15 years, and the IEEE for 10 years.
Erik Foreman (panelist: Pro Tools)
Erik Foreman is an award-winning sound designer, re-recording mixer and musician working in the post-production industry since 1994. He grew up as an audiophile; passionate about the sound, the gear and the people that made great recordings. He worked at Skywalker Sound as an editor and re-recording mixer from 1999 – 2016 covering the film, tv and game industries. He is now at Dolby Labs where he serves as an in-house expert on their technologies helping to develop, teach, and showcase all things Dolby. He has been an active member of AES since 2016.
Austin Rowe (panelist: Logic Pro X)
Austin’s affinity for music and sound started at a young age playing and recording in punk bands and working as a EDM producer. He then founded linear and interactive post-production audio company, Cave Bat, in 2017 and has been working there as supervising sound editor, sound designer, and music composer since. Cave Bat’s work can be heard in Sundance Film Festival acclaimed films, HBO Max and Hulu documentaries, Billabong and Aston Martin advertisements, Amazon Music marketing materials, and indie video games.
Always looking to get involved in the cutting edge of sound, lately he’s been fascinated in pushing the boundaries of interactive audio and finding new ways to capture players’ imaginations sonically. When he isn’t caught up cooking new taco recipes, playing guitar, or making lo-fi hip hop for fun, Austin enjoys long walks on a moonlit beach and brushing up on Star Wars trivia.
Julius Dobos (moderator: Pro Tools, Digital Performer, Ableton Live)
Julius Dobos is an award-winning, platinum-album electronic music and film composer, mix engineer and sound synthesist, 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, Paul Wall, Erykah Badu and more. Releasing under his pseudonym, forgotten future, he builds musical concepts and creates epic-ambient electronic music with a distinct character that heavily relies on musical sound design and performance. Dobos’ digital installations and live performances, such as the 2019 Human Intelligence Control show, have featured audio experiences that promote human interaction and organic expression in electronic music. With a composition background, EE and MA degrees, Dobos has also engineered, mastered records in his Studio CS for over two decades. He is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Silicon Valley, where he teaches electronic music, film scoring, sound design, sound synthesis and studio production, and directs audio for media projects. He currently serves as Vice Chair of AES San Francisco, is the founder of the AI-Free Organization, and enjoys beta-testing audio tools, tweaking his arsenal of electronic instruments and speaking on production culture, synthesis and education reform topics.

Analog vs. Digital Processing - Bob Katz's Choices
2023-02-07 18:00 - 20:00
Bob Katz will present some technical measurements and aesthetic observations about this disputable topic. Standby for the fireworks!
Join the AESSF for what’s certain to be a rousing discussion.
Included in this meeting:
VIRTUOSO: BINAURAL TRANSLATOR
A discussion and high resolution demonstration, hosted by Bob Katz
Virtuoso is a new, cutting edge binaural technology for virtualizing stereo or immersive audio and a listening room for headphone monitoring, with excellent tonal/spatial fidelity and a highly accurate translation to real loudspeakers.
For example, create a stereo or immersive mix, feed it through Virtuoso and out comes binaural that Bob feels sounds like it’s coming from his Mastering-quality loudspeaker system in his well-treated mastering room. With excellent externalization (out of head impression). Virtuoso can be used on the road or wherever quality loudspeaker monitoring is not available. You can be the judge of that on Tuesday, February 7.
Virtuoso was developed by Dr. Hyunkook Lee of the University of Huddersfield, England.
Bob will be using Streamwire to send high resolution audio. For the very best audio quality, please use a DAW at 48 kHz, internal clock. Use your best DAC, headphones, and headphone amplifier. You can listen to high resolution audio through your browser.
Come by early to get accustomed to Streamwire, Bob will be playing music starting at 5pm.
Here is a link with full information and the link to the Streamwire stream (which does not require any downloads or subscriptions):
https://digido.com/livestream
Log in to this live online presentation at: https://youtu.be/8pLr4dHXlOk with the samples playing on Streamwire.
Bio
With over 50 years as an audio professional, Bob Katz has recorded and mastered three Grammy-winning albums and several nominees. He masters all styles of music as president and mastering engineer at Digital Domain, Orlando, FL.
In 1988, Bob became Technical Supervisor and recording engineer for audiophile label Chesky Records. He produced the world’s first commercial oversampled recordings with his own implementation of the DBX ADC. His recordings for Chesky used one mike or minimalist miking, were acclaimed for their balance, depth, clarity and purity of tone. In 1997, he recorded the first 96 kHz/24-bit audio-only DVD.
He is a life Fellow of the AES. He was workshops Chairman of the AES 74th Convention, Facilities Chair of the 79th, and chaired the 1994 NY Section. Most recently, he has been an active member the subcommittee which produced TD-1008, Recommendations for Loudness of Internet Audio Streaming and In-Demand Distribution, superceding TD-1004. This group took over a year to refine every word in this document.
His book, “Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science”, in its third edition, has been translated to Chinese, German and Spanish. It has sold over 150, 000 copies.
He has created several digital audio products and has invented, patented and licensed the K-stereo and K-Surround Processes.

Hyde Street Studios Drum Miking Workshop with Will Chason
2023-02-16 19:30 - 21:00
Grammy award winning engineer Will Chason walks through his drum miking setup at historic Hyde Street Studios.
Log in to this live online presentation at: https://youtu.be/FZUbIep-XHc
Bio
Will Chason is an award winning (engineer- Best Rap Song Grammy 2021, BBMA Best Christian Album, Best Gospel Album), multiplatinum engineer, as well as a producer and multi-instrumentalist.
Will has worked as a lead engineer with artists and producers such as Lil Nas X, Kayne West, Rick Rubin, Tyler The Creator, RZA, Pusha T, The Head and The Heart, Steve Lacey (The Internet), Mike Dean, Corey Henry (Snarky Puppy), Vory, Walk The Moon, Warryn Campbell, and many others.
Equally at home setting up and running large scale writers camps, detailed driven recording sessions, or production and mixing services, Will can take your vision to where it needs to go, at any scale.

GPU Audio in Modern Creation and Industry Compute Platforms
2023-06-10 15:00 - 18:00 | University of Silicon Valley, 191 Baypointe Parkway, San Jose, CA, 95134, United States
Today’s computation platforms draw remarkable benefit from the parallelism capability of GPUs (Graphic Processing Units) for both visual rendering and non-visual workloads, including machine learning tasks. In contrast, audio processing has traditionally been handicapped due to algorithm topologies not readily mapping to GPU architectures. In this panel, we’ll learn from industry leaders about overcoming this persistent limitation in future GPU-powered compute platforms, thereby breaking workflow and efficiency barriers in embedded or cloud-based artistic and industrial applications.
Meet the panelists for our in-person event on June 10 at the University of Silicon Valley.
Jonathan Rowden, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of GPU Audio
Andres Viso, Product Manager at Braingines/GPU Audio
Jonathan Wyner, Senior Mastering Engineer at M Works and Professor at Berklee College of Music
Jeremy Krinitt, Lead, Generative AI at NVIDIA
Carl Wakeland, Fellow at AMD
Moderator: Jean-Marc Jot, Founder & Principal at Virtuel Works
Agenda
3:00-3:30 Refreshments & Networking
3:30-5:00 Panel
5:00-6:00pm Networking
Space is limited. Registration is here.
Admission is $20 for general public, free for current AES members, use your member number in the promo box. If you need to renew your membership, visit https://aes2.org/aes-membership-overview/

San Francisco Studio Crawl
2023-09-29 12:00 - 22:00 | Hyde Street Studios, 245 Hyde Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
It’s like a pub crawl, open-house, and house party all rolled into one day. Tickets will be required and space is limited. To attend and get the latest updates and info which you’ll need to participate, book early. Over the coming weeks we’ll be announcing more participating studios, prizes and sponsors.
A. Hammer Mastering
A. Hammer Annex
Dreamrack
Fogel Sounds
Hyde Street Studios
Light Rail Studios
One Union
Outpost Studios
Rancho Rivera
Tape Vault Studio
Track Tribe West
Wally’s Hideout
Due to the nature of the business, there could be changes among studio availability.
Open Studios
12:00pm to 5:00pm:
You can get an inside look at many of the recording and post-production studios in San Francisco. Be sure to pick up a raffle ticket at each stop, for a chance to win our raffle prizes at the mixer. The more studios you visit, the more chances to win.
AES San Francisco will provide a list and details of participating facilities to registered participants in a password protected interactive map the evening before, and you’ll be responsible for your own for transportation. There is no shuttle. If you’re car-challenged, many of the studios can be reached by BART, bus or bike.
The Big Audio Mixer and Raffle
5:00pm to 10:00pm:
Hyde Street Studios
Studio Crawl attendees are invited to mingle with hundreds of local Bay Area professional audio people, maybe win some prizes from our raffle drawing. We’re still lining up prizes. Refreshments and beverages are included.
Note: It’s very important that you register with the correct email address, because all of the details you need to participate will be emailed to registered participants, including the password protected map and addresses of participating the studios.
Only registered ticket holders can attend these studio tours and the mixer event. All of the details needed to participate will be sent by email to registered attendees.

Atomic Clocks in Digital Audio
2023-10-04 18:00 - 19:30
The sample clocks driving audio CODECs in digital recording systems have been based on crystal oscillators almost exclusively. Due to advances in materials and integration, atomic clocks can be deployed with electrical and footprint requirements on the order of integrated circuits. We investigate the applicability of current atomic clock varieties in controlling CODECs, with jitter performance an important quality factor. We also investigate the measurement of clock jitter in search of a method to capture anecdotal qualities of jitter in audio applications.

Join us for this live online Zoom co-presentation with the Colorado section of AES.
Meeting on Zoom here
Meeting ID: 815 4639 5565
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Speaker Bios

Duane Wise has developed software for scientific and signal processing applications for over forty years. He earned a BA at the University of Colorado in 1982 and an MS at The Johns Hopkins University in 1990. He is currently researching algorithms for digital audio signal processing and developing digital audio systems and educational materials for a diverse clientele. He is also the founder and president of Wholegrain Digital Systems LLC, a developer of audio signal processing applications. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society, Cinema Audio Society, NARAS, and Phi Beta Kappa.
Will Krzewick is a principal engineer of product marketing in the frequency and time systems (FTS) business unit at Microchip Technology. He is responsible for managing rubidium oscillators, GNSS disciplined oscillators (GPSDO) and test sets. He also supports numerous atomic clock products and has co-authored several papers on their applications. Previously, Krzewick worked in the defense industry researching and modeling radio frequency (RF) and microwave technology. He earned his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Boston University and his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.
Dr. Jun Ye is a Fellow of JILA, University of Colorado, and a Fellow of the Nattional Institute of Standards and Technology. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of APS, and a Fellow of OSA. His research focuses on the frontiers of light-matter interactions that include precision measurement, quantum science, ultracold matter, and frequency metrology. He has co-authored 380 scientific papers and delivered 600 invited talks. His awards and honors include Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, Micius Quantum Prize, N.F. Ramsey Prize, I.I. Rabi Award, US Presidential Rank Award, five Gold Medals from the U.S. Commerce Department, Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Frew Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, European Frequency and Time Forum Award, Carl Zeiss Award, William F. Meggers Award, Adolph Lomb Medal, Arthur S. Flemming Award, Presidential Early Career Award, Friedrich Wilhem Bessel Award, Samuel Wesley Stratton Award, and a Jacob Rabinow Award.

Audium-Theatre of Sound Technical Presentation
2023-10-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Audium-Theatre of Sound, 1616 Bush Street, San Francisco, 94109, United States
Audium–the first theater of its kind in the world– has been pioneering the idea of live sound movement for over 50 years. The installation occupies a custom-built facility designed specifically for the creation and performance of spatial sound-art. Audiences at its weekly performances sit and listen in total darkness, while they are enveloped by sounds emanating from 176 speakers in sloping walls, a floating floor, and a suspended ceiling.
AES San Francisco members are invited to a special presentation at Audium on Monday, October 30th. Space is limited, so tickets are required. You can reserve your seat using your AES member number in the Promo box at our Eventbrite listing.
No late arrivals can be seated once the presentation begins.
We’re holding seats for members through October 23, after which we’ll make any remaining tickets available to our community list.
Join us for an unforgettable audio experience at the Audium-Theatre of Sound in San Francisco, CA, USA. Immerse yourself in a world of mesmerizing sounds and cutting-edge technology.
Photo courtesy of Kim Huynh

AES San Francisco Elections 2024
2023-12-12 00:00 - 2023-12-22 23:59
Election Cycle 2024
Everything you need to know about the Audio Engineering Society San Francisco section committee elections.
Call for Candidates: December 1-9, 2023
Thank you for all of the candidates who came forward!
Here is our slate of candidates for 2024
Voting: Online voting information will be sent to members. Voting runs between December 13-22, 2023.
Results will be announced through email by December 31, 2023. Newly elected officers and committee members begin their terms on January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2025.
For 2024, the positions of Chair, Secretary and several Member at Large seats are up for election. These are all two-year positions.
You can read more about the duties at aessf.org/about/officer-duties and in our bylaws at aessf.org/about/bylaws.
FAQs:
How much time does it take?
Answer: Minimally a couple of hours a month, some volunteers put in more. We have planning meetings, often by video conference. There are some sub-committees for additional focused work as needed, like Media, Studio Crawl and Bylaws.
What does an AES San Francisco Committee Member do?
Answer: We ask everyone to plan at least one presentation a year, although collaborating on other meetings is helpful. There are varied duties to putting together a meeting, from selecting a topic/speaker, lining up a venue, emailing invites to our lists, social media, picking up meeting snacks and conducting the meeting. Often we divide these duties up, so most meetings are a team production.
Who can run for the AES Committee?
Answer: AES Members. All of our events are planned and produced by this team of volunteers. It’s a great way to be in the loop for networking and local audio industry information. Look at the past events they have produced over the years here.
What if I have more questions?
Reach out to our AESSF Election Committee by email: elections@ aessf.org.

Silicon Valley Video Summit
2024-01-23 09:00 - 18:30 | Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
AES SF has partnered with Silicon Valley Video Summit to bring you a full day of audio for video workshops on January 23. And the best part? The show is free for AES members! Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your skills and knowledge. Register now or Find Out More!
HERE’S WHO’S SPEAKING (SO FAR)
Program Chair:
Brian (BT) Gibbs, Skyline Entertainment and Publishing, Co-Owner and Principal
Presenters & Panelists:
Sam Craig, Advanced Systems Group, VP, Cloud Engineering
David Frerichs, Media Tuners, President
Jean-Marc Jot, Virtuel Works, Founder and Principal
Patrick Killianey, AV Consultant | AV Community
Sven Mevissen, Xperi, Director, Product Management – Home and Media Solutions
Alan Seefeldt, Dolby Laboratories, Principal Member Research Staff
Mark Thomas, Dolby Laboratories, Senior Staff Researcher
HERE’S WHAT THEY’RE SPEAKING ABOUT

Networking for Production: AoIP/AES67/Dante
Immersive For Consumer “After the Decode”
Fixing the Loudness Problem for Streaming
Immersive Audio for Broadcast and Linear Media

DON’T MISS THESE OTHER TRACKS

Live Event Production
Studio & Post Production
Staffing Workshop
Virtual Production Workshop
SMPTE Student Workshop

Dolby Atmos Experience at Dolby Headquarters
2024-03-05 17:00 - 19:30 | Dolby Headquarters, 1275 Market Street, San Francisco, 94103, United States
Join Dolby’s Head of Music Partnerships Christine Thomas and team, together with the AES San Francisco Section, for an exciting look into the latest developments within the Dolby Atmos music ecosystem. Learn about updates to the music creation tools and native integration into leading DAW’s, plus an overview of the latest in services and devices, including automobiles and much more. Guests will hear a selection of Dolby Atmos music in the cinema and Mercedes S-Class automobile. Presentations will include a demonstration of Dolby Atmos music mixing workflows, tips and insights featuring Dolby veteran mixer Erik Foreman.
Q&A to follow. We look forward to seeing you there.
Order Your Tickets Here

Speaker Bios

Christine Thomas is the Head of Music Partnerships for Dolby Laboratories, leading strategy and business development for music industry enablement. Christine works closely with major and independent labels, distribution partners, studios, and creatives to facilitate the adoption of Dolby Atmos technologies for Music. She is a passionate leader with extensive experience across the media and entertainment ecosystem, leading strategic initiatives and driving the growth of new technologies for several major media companies.

Erik 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 committee member-at-large.

AESSF Swap Meet
2024-04-20 12:00 - 16:00
It’s time to dust off, spark to life, bundle up and trundle out that gear that’s been lurking in the corner, longing for use in some other studio, live rack, classroom or other loving home.
Hosted by the Audio Engineering Society San Francisco , this is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit, community event for music and audio industry professionals. All transactions are 100% buyer to seller, with no commissions. This event is open to non-AES members as well. Fine opportunity to hobnob with fellow knob-twiddlers and catch up on what colleagues are up to.
Tickets to attend:
AES Members: Free (enter your AES membership number in the promode field to apply the discount)
Non AES Members: $5 per person pre-sales or $10 at the door, cash or check please
Snacks and beverages included, so good opportunity to network with other local audio people.

Get Tickets
Audio Engineering Society San Francisco will post an advance page on our website of gear sellers plan to bring and a wishlist of what people are looking for, as that information gets communicated to us.

Info for Sellers:
If you have professional audio gear or musical instruments to sell, contact us with the form to request a spot.
We’ll have a limited number of tables and chairs available for vendors. Should some items be too large, weighty or awkward to schlep, pics, spec sheets or manuals can be displayed on your table to transact for later pickup or delivery.
Vendor spaces are payable in advance through eventbrite.
AES Members: Free (enter your AES membership number in the promode field to apply the discount)
Non-AES Members: $15 (includes your admission)
Locations on floor will be on a first arrival basis once you’ve reserved a spot. We’ll be indoors, with electricity available for testing gear. There are tables & chairs for sellers, Sellers are responsible for all of your own transactions and fund collection.
Move-in at 11:00 am. Doors for shoppers at noon.
Once you sign up, you will be invited to submit some of the gear you have to offer for sale.
Street parking is available

List Your Gear!

Partial List of Sellers and Gear
CCSF BEMA students, faculty, and staff

Guitars:
– Gibson SG guitar
– Eastwood 2×4 guitar
– Carvin V220 guitar
(2) Presonus Eris 8 Active monitors
Mackie 1202 mixer
Electrix rack-mounted units:
– mo-fx time synchronized fx
– repeater loop-based recorder
– warp factory vocoder
Morley Black Gold basic volume pedal
Korg Toneworks DTR-2 Rackmount Tuner
Microphones:
– CAD Equitek e100 supercardioid condenser mic w/shock mount
– (2) AKG C418 condenser mics (clip on),
– BLUE Yeti Nano dual-pattern USB mic
Lots of old digital from Gary Hobish’s studio:
– Euphonix MC Control and Euphonix MC Mix,
– Sony PCM 800 Hi-8 digital multitrack
– Sony PCM R500 DAT Recorder
– Sony PCM 601 esd digital audio processor
– Sony Super BETA HiFi VCR
– JVC TDW354 dual cassette deck
– Metric Halo ULN-8 mkIV multi-channel audio interface with snakes
Speakers:
– Klipsch R12SW 12″ subwoofer
– Hafler Transnova reference monitor 12″ subwoofer

BZ Studio

Pro Co DB-1 direct box, $25 – Top, right, and left views
C.B.I. DBGL Pro direct box – $25, Top, right, and left views
JK Audio phone line tap
Rocktron Compressor/Hush
Opcode Studio 3
Peavy Sampler
Blue Tube Mic Pre
Roland R8 Drum Machine
Proteus 1 Midi Module

David Bowles

Meyer CP10-E911275 analogue EQ unit
Meyer CP10-00467847 analogue EQ unit
EMM Labs SWM3 (6-channel/3 source analogue switcher) with remote control

Jonah Strauss

AMS Neve 1073dpx
SPL Transient Designer TD4
Meyer CP10S
Lexicon PCM60
BSS DPR-504
DBX PA2 w/mic
Valley People Gatex
FMR RNLA
FMR RNP
Presonus EQ3B
ARX Multi-Q
Mackie HMX56
Radial MC3
Furman RP-8
2x 6U ATA
Much more

JX Loeb

G&L ASAT Guitar
Agile LP Style Guitar
Electro Harmonix 12AY7 Mic Pre
Assorted speaker and signal cables
SansAmp Classic
Assorted Guitar FX pedals
Vintage Wharfdale woofers
Sony MZ-R90
Boss BR-80
AKG K-240
Auratone Copies
dbx parts
Crown D-75 amp
Vox AC-4 amp

Markus Cremer

Guitars:
– BC Rich Virgin w/ Bareknuckle Aftermath PU set
– ESP LTD F-207 w/ Fishman Fluence PU set
– Seagull 12-string acoustic Cedar (~1990)
– Ovation CS-257
– Squire bass guitar
Amps:
– Mesa Boogie 295
– Line 6 LD150
– Sony STR-DN1030
– Sony STR-DG600
Speakers:
– Laney 4×12 (~1990)
– EV ELX115P PA/Stage Monitors (pair)
– Epicure EPI202 HiFi speakers (pair) (~1975)
– Siemens HiFi speakers (pair) (~1965)
Various:
– Chauvet Scorpion laser
– ADJ VFI300 fog machine

Matt Boudreau

Retro Instruments OP-6 Microphone Preamp
Amphion Amp500
AT4047MP
Universal Audio Apollo Silver
Neumann U87
WhiteStone Audio P331
AEA TRP2 Mic Pre

Steve Oppenheimer

dbx PB-48 48-point TRS patch bays (2)
DigiTech Studio Vocalist EX vocal harmony processor
dbx Project 1 Model 242 Parametric EQ
dbx 140A Type II Broadcast Noise Reduction
dbx 263X de-esser
Aphex Model 110 Aural Exciter Type E
Hughes Sound Retrieval System AK-100 3-D audio processor
Hughes Retriever AK-500 3-D audio processor
PreSonus FireStudio Tube audio/MIDI interface
Conquest MPS-1000 48-point TRS modular patch bay
Boss SE50 stereo multi-effects

About Airship Laboratories
Airship Laboratories is a 3,000 square foot media production facility adjacent to the San Francisco Bay in Richmond, CA. Built in the late ’70s, the studio has had two major retrofits: first in the ’90s with the Studio A build-out and then again in 2011 when new studio owner Neil Godbole took over and invested in a full digital integration.
The Airship features two control rooms, one of the largest and best-sounding live rooms in the Bay Area, several auxiliary and isolation rooms, a listening lounge, and a full kitchen. In addition to an airy and inviting floor-plan, the ability to bring in natural air and light allows the peaceful surroundings of the bay to fill the studio with character—the perfect environment for focused creativity.

AI and the Audio Professional 2024
2024-07-18 18:30 - 21:00 | CCSF Ocean Campus, MUB 140, 55 Frida Kahlo Way, MUB 140, San Francisco, CA, 94112, United States
Agenda

6:30-7 pm: Networking & Light Refreshments
7-8 pm: Panel Discussion
8-9 pm: Q&A

Panel Discussion
In 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!
The 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.
One thing for certain, AI is here to stay and evolve – so don’t miss this exciting conversation!

Get Free Tickets
Or attend via Zoom
https://ccsf-edu.zoom.us/j/84223452115?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 842 2345 2115
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Nahuel Bronzini
Well-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.

Julius Dobos
Julius 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

David Bowles

David 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.

Loïc Maestracci

Loïc 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.

Ken Felton
Ken 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.

Jean-Marc Jot

Jean-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.

Erik Foreman

Erik 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.

Experimental Music Panel Discussion and Performance
2024-07-31 18:00 - 22:00 | Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Agenda

6-7 pm: Welcome Reception
7-8 pm: Panel Discussion
8-8:30 pm: Q&A
8:30-10: Performance

Panel Discussion
A 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.
Panelists: Julius Dobos, Frank Martin, Karen Stackpole, William Winant, Krys Bobrowski
Facilitator: Brent Miller
Performance:
Following the discussion, panelists will give an improvisational live performance, collaborating on stage the first time together.

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Karen Stackpole
Drummer/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.

Franck Martin
Born 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.

Julius Dobos
Julius 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.

William Winant
William 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.

Krys Bobrowski

Krys 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.

Brent Miller
Brent 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.

Sisters with Transistors Screening
2024-08-08 18:00 - 20:30 | The Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street at Valencia, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
Agenda

6:00-7:30 pm: Film Screening
7:45-8:30 pm: Live conversation with Suzanne Ciani

AES San Francisco is inviting you to a very special, one-night screening of Sisters with Transistors at the historic Roxie Theater, followed by a live conversation with Suzanne Ciani, one of the artists featured in the film.
Sisters with Transistors the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today. The film features Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel.
With Laurie Anderson as our narrator, we’ll embark on a fascinating journey through the evolution of electronic music. We’ll learn how new devices opened music to the entire field of sound, how electronic music not only changed the modes of production but in its wide-ranging effects also transformed the very terms of musical thought.
Sisters with Transistors is more than just the history of a music genre: it’s the story of the critical but little-known role that female pioneers played at its beginning.
Whether you’re an electronic music history fan, a synthesizer enthusiast, or just want to support underrepresented minorities in the arts, you won’t want to miss this very special event!
AES members will receive a promo code via email to get your ticket at 50% off the general admission price!
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Suzanne Ciani
Suzanne Ciani is a five-time Grammy award-nominated composer, electronic music pioneer, and neo-classical recording artist who has released over 20 solo albums including “Seven Waves,” and “The Velocity of Love,” along with a landmark quad LP “LIVE Quadraphonic,” which restarted her Buchla modular performances. Her work has been featured in films, games, and countless commercials as well.
She was inducted into the first class of Keyboard Magazine’s Hall of Fame alongside other synth luminaries, including Bob Moog, Don Buchla and Dave Smith and received the Moog Innovation Award. Most recently, she is the recipient of the Independent Icon Award from A2IM.
Suzanne has provided the voice and sounds for Bally’s groundbreaking “Xenon” pinball machine, created Coca-Cola’s pop-and-pour sound, designed logos for Fortune 500 companies, and carved out a niche as one of the most creatively successful female composers in the world. A Life in Waves, a documentary about Ciani’s life and work, debuted at SXSW in 2017 and is available to watch on all digital platforms.
Ciani is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds a Masters in Music Composition from the University of California, Berkeley.

AES San Francisco Elections 2025
2024-09-18 00:00 - 2024-10-26 00:00
Election Cycle 2025
Everything you need to know about the Audio Engineering Society San Francisco section committee elections.
Call for Candidates: September 18 – October 25, 2024

If you would like to nominate yourself or another audio professional, please fill out the 2025 Call for Candidates form.
Voting: An online ballot will be sent to members. Voting runs between November 1-15, 2024.
Results will be announced through email by December 1, 2024. Newly elected officers and committee members begin their two-year terms on January 1, 2025.
For 2025, the positions of Vice Chair, Treasurer, and several committee member seats are up for election. These are all two-year positions.
You can read more about the duties at aessf.org/about/officer-duties and in our bylaws at aessf.org/about/bylaws.
FAQs:
How much time does it take?
Answer: Minimally a couple of hours a month. Some volunteers put in more. We have planning meetings, typically via Zoom. There are some subcommittees for additional focused work as needed, like Media, Studio Crawl, and Bylaws.
What does an AES San Francisco Committee Member do?
Answer: We ask everyone to contribute to at least one presentation each year. There are varied duties to putting together a meeting, from selecting a topic/speaker, lining up a venue, emailing invites to our lists, social media, picking up meeting snacks, and conducting the meeting. We often divide these duties, so most meetings are a team production.
Who can run for the AES Committee?
Answer: Any AES member, associate member, or student member can run for an officer or committee member position. All of our events are planned and produced by this team of volunteers. It’s a great way to be in the loop for networking and local audio industry information. Look at the past events they have produced over the years here.
What if I have more questions?
Reach out to our AESSF Election Committee at elections@aessf.org.

Studio Crawl & Mixer 2024
2024-09-20 12:00 - 22:00
We’re bringing back our East Bay studio crawl on Friday, September 20th, with a mix of returning studios and some new additions. This is a one-day opportunity to visit some of the top audio facilities in the Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley & Richmond area, followed by an audio-industry mixer at 25th Street Recording in Oakland.
Member Tickets
Tickets are free for AES Members. Directions to sign up were emailed to current San Francisco members. If you are an AES Member, but you aren’t part of the San Francisco Section, please email studiocrawl@aessf.org and include your member number to be added to the list.
Guest Tickets
Tickets, which include everything you will need to know to find the participating studios on that day, admission to the Mixer after, with refreshments and beverages included, are $20 and available at Eventbrite. Service charges do apply.
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Schedule
12:00 pm to 5:00 pm: Open Studios
You can get an inside look at many of the rehearsal, recording and post-production studios in the East Bay. Be sure to pick up a raffle ticket at each stop, for a chance to win our raffle prizes at the mixer. The more studios you visit, the more chances to win.
AES San Francisco will provide details for finding participating facilities to registered participants, and you’ll be responsible for your own for transportation. There is no shuttle. If you’re car-challenged, many of the studios can be reached by BART, bus or bike.
5:00 pm to 10:00 pm:
Audio mixer and raffle at 25th Street Recording.
Mingle with other local Bay Area professional audio people and maybe win some prizes from the raffle drawing. AES will be providing refreshments for attendees at the mixer.
Participating Studios in 2024 include:

25th Street Recording
Bird and Egg Recording Studio
Brothers (Chinese) Recording
Coast Mastering
East Bay Recorders
Hand Me Down Recording
Infinite Studios
Riley Sound Labs
Santo Recording
Skyline Studio
Soundwave Studios
Studio 132
Studio X
Survivor Sound

2025 AES SF Elections | Vote for Candidates
2024-11-02 00:00
Voting is open until November 15, 2024
It’s time for AES members to vote for candidates who will join the AES San Francisco Committee in 2025. We have candidates for Treasurer and Vice Chair positions as well as members at large.
Thank you to all of the members who came forward to run this year, including several who are new to the committee.
See running candidates and check your inbox with instructions to vote.

AES San Francisco Section Annual Meeting and Holiday Party
2024-12-07 18:00 - 22:00 | Hyde Street Studios, 245 Hyde Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Agenda

5:45 pm Arrive
6:00 pm AES SF Annual Meeting
8:00 pm Hyde Street Studios’ Holiday Party

AES Members are cordially invited to AES SF Annual Meeting and Holiday Party at Hyde Street Studios on Saturday, December 7, starting at 6 pm.
During our Annual Meeting, we’ll introduce our new committee members, celebrate our 2024 accomplishments and share exciting plans for 2025.
Following the meeting, join us for Hyde Street Studios’ Holiday Party featuring live music, drinks, snacks and holiday cheers! Light hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served.
RSVP required: Please register using your AES member number to reveal the RSVP form. You are welcome to invite a guest.
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