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Jimmy Jam delivers Friday’s Opening Keynote at AES
New York, USA - The Audio Engineering Society (AES) is holding its annual convention at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. The four day-convention (October 17 to 20, 2013) provides access to seminars, workshops, conferences and exhibitions by the leading manufacturers and professionals in regard to all aspects of developing audio and recording technologies.
The opening keynote was delivered this morning by five-time Grammy Award-winning producer, songwriter and musician Jimmy Jam (James Harris, III) one-half of the legendary renowned partnership duo of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. His speech focused on his first-hand experiences on the impact of technology on the creative process.
Jam touched on several aspects of the music business, all the while highlighting the nexus between the traditional or 'ole school' precedents and the fast clip of today's technology. Of critical importance was the ability to revisit the masters (original recordings) of yesteryear, and being able to re-issue or remix them sometime in the future. He touched on some of the music masters of the legendary James Brown now remixed for 'surround sound' and how phenomenal the material sounded.
The key point was that those music masters had been kept safely and were available generations later. This is an aspect of performance and recording that strikes particular chords within the steelband community. Though several of the New York steel orchestras have always been given masters by Basement Recordings, of their individual pan yard recordings since the 1980s, incredibly, some no longer can be sure of or account for the whereabouts of these masters.
Basement Recordings returns to the AES convention each time it is in New York City, to ensure basically that they are always aware of, (if any, that is) earth-shattering technological developments that might have considerable impact on what they do with regard to capturing the steel orchestras annually in all their power and glory.
From recording consoles, to various microphones, to equipment/software for multi-track recording, and capturing and mastering software and hardware in general, broadcast materials - it's all here. Not to mention, the hundreds of music professionals in town for the entire convention duration, some to deliver onsite demonstrations, others - addresses (like Jimmy Jam), and still more holding seminars, open panel discussions and the like.
Anyone who is seriously into any aspect of audio and recording technology should attend. There is a wealth of valuable technical and business information. This is the largest gathering of audio professionals in the world.
Below: Timetable/Calendar of Events for the 135th AES Convention in NYC - click here for more
Events for Thursday 17 and Friday 18, 2013
Events for Saturday 19 and Sunday 20, 2013
You may still registration onsite at the Jacob Javits convention center - www.aes.org/events/135/registration
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I look forward to reading about any insights gained from the conference.