Chicago AES Section Blog

November 30, 2017 at 7:30 pm

Location: Shure Incorporated, 5800 W. Touhy Ave, Niles, IL 60714

Speaker(s): Jim Anderson Professor, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Recording Engineer/Producer Jim Anderson will present an evening of his recordings of jazz and classical music in surround sound. Musical artists will include saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom, Chicago vocalist and songwriter Patricia Barber, US Army Jazz Ambassadors performing compositions by Sammy Nestico, and the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra of Norway.

Genelec has graciously provided a 5.1 monitor system for listening.

Jim Anderson is an internationally recognized recording engineer and producer of acoustic music for the recording, radio, television, and film industries. He is the recipient of numerous awards and nominations in the recording industry: his recordings have received ten Grammy and Latin Grammy awards and 27 Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations; his radio recordings have received two George Foster Peabody Awards and there have been two Emmy nominations for television programs. In 2013, Jim won the Grammy for Best Surround Album and was nominated for Best Surround Album in 2014.

A graduate of the Duquesne University School of Music in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jim has studied audio engineering at the Eastman School of Music and Sender Freies Berlin. During the 1970s, he was employed by National Public Radio. Since 1980, Jim has had a career as an independent audio engineer and producer, living in New York City. He has been a frequent lecturer and speaker for the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and master-class guest faculty member at leading international institutes. He is a professor of recorded music with the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and was the department’s Chair from 2004 – 2008.

He has served as Vice President for Eastern Sections of the AES, chaired the NYC Section and was Chair of many AES conventions. Jim is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society, has received five AES Board of Governors Awards, and was President of the Society in 2008-2009.

Jim and his wife, tonmeister Ulrike Schwarz, collaborate as Anderson Audio New York www.andersonaudiony.com and specialize in surround and immersive recording.

Other Business: Dinner (optional, but please RSVP) will begin at 6:30pm.Contact Giles Davis ([email protected]) by Wednesday, November 29th if you would like to join us. Sandwiches and chips from Jimmy John’s will be provided. Please let Giles know if you have a preference for vegetarian, gluten-free, etc. Price is $10 for non-members and $8 for members and students (please bring cash).