AUDIO ACADEMY NEWS
The Revolution of Immersive Sound
Imagine this – thousands of music fans waiting to listen to their favorite band. The magic begins, the band begins to play and instantly everyone knows that this is a concert experience unlike any other. The immersive hyperreal sound technology enveloping them makes...
Audio Networking and Its Implications for Sound
There has been a concerted call towards going digital in pro sound applications and the real-world applications of this brand of networked sound have shown up in places as diverse the G8 Summit for sound reinforcement, the Sydney Opera House and recording applications...
The Joys of Novelty Music
Chuckling to Weird Al Yankovic’s “My Bologna” or the popular song by Flight of the Conchords “Too Many D*cks On The Dance Floor” is a high school memory for many people around the world. However, this genre of music is not usually considered part of the standard pop...
The Inimitable George Gershwin
Music wouldn’t be the same without Broadway musicals, movie soundtracks, and music on television. When it comes to twentieth-century music, the one name with an indelible influence in this era is that of American composer, pianist, and songwriter George Gershwin....
The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound
A vision during an LSD trip is what inspired Owsley “Bear” Stanley, the Grateful Dead’s sound engineer’s mammoth feat of technical engineering, “The Wall of Sound”, irreversibly changing live sound and engineering for the better. It was a time when live sound problems...
Edison’s Phonograph
When you think of clocks that announce the time, talking dolls or audio courses, there isn’t much in common between them on the surface of it. However, each of these owe a lot to Thomas Edison and his favourite invention – the phonograph. It was while he was working...
Ben Burtt and His Contribution to Sci-fi Sound Design
The hum of the lightsaber in the classic Star Wars movie is so iconic that kids play-fighting with their pretend ones make sure that they make the sound too. The other sounds that created a soundscape for the movie was the deep breathing of Darth Vader, and the...
The Year That Was: Audio Academy Looks Back at 2018
As we bid goodbye to another year, let us take a look back at articles that covered everything from the stalwarts of sound engineering to the nuances that go into making great sound. The year began with bringing you details of what it takes to develop perfect pitch. A...
What ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club’ Did For Recording
The year was 1967. Many rock acts were devoting less time to live performances and more to mastering the rapidly developing studio technology with the aim of making increasingly sophisticated sound recordings. The Beatles had broken from the two-albums-per-year...
Women In Audio: Where Are They?
[vc_row][vc_column css=".vc_custom_1461585051858{background-color: #ffffff !important;}"][vc_column_text]Audio is a profession that has been mostly dominated by men. Statistics by the Audio Engineering Society’s (AES) women in audio committee (now defunct and replaced...