AES Student Blog

1) Tell us a little about yourself. Where are you from and what do you study?

I'm studying in Düsseldorf/Germany at the Institute of Music and Media of the Robert Schumann Conservatory. I selected my courses and programs quite straightly towards recording and production of Classical Music.

2) What initiated your passion for audio? When did it start?

I play piano since I can think which made me develop interest in classical music quite early. My piano lessons have always been about classical music and I started composing little pieces by myself. Despite my mp3 player as a 13 year old was filled with pop music, this classical understanding of music grew parallely to me discovering pop culture. I got in contact with audio when I wanted to record the (Rock-)songs I wrote. The Tech stuff never impressed me much, although I found great pleasure in trying to make my songs sound like I wanted them to sound like.

Starting my studies I initially wanted to go into Media Composition, but then I quickly realized how much I loved the recording and producing of music. I got interested in more complex Audio systems and signal transmission to be able to work in music production professionally.

3) Tell us about production of your submission? What is the story behind it? What inspired it? How long did you work on it? Was it your first entry?

My submission is a edited version of three live orchestra recordings. At some point in my studies I felt the need to get experience in big recordings, so I organized several live recordings of orchestras to improve my namagement skills in bigger productions. This submission is actually my second orchestra recording which I was in charge of which was already followed my several more, so I learned a lot from it and would already do a lot of things differently now...

It is my first submission to a competition.

4) What/who made you join AES?

Since I am studying, there always have been people of our programme going to AES conventions. As I am not overly interested in Tech as a self-porpose, so I felt like I don't actually need to go to AES conventions. It's this competition that made me come th Milan and I am super happy I did! I heared a lot of inspiring presentations and read interesting papers and I will definitely be there again next time.