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Daniel Cantor is a Professor at Berklee College of Music in both the Songwriting as well as the Music Production & Engineering departments. He has won numerous ASCAP Awards as a composer and has owned Notable Productions in Watertown since 1987. Notable is one of the premier recording studios in the Northeast. Featuring a 1979 Neve console and host of other vintage toys, it has been home to over 1000 albums and commercial productions with clients as diverse as Aerosmith, Talib Kweli, Thomas Mapfumo, Peggy Seeger, Al Gore, NPR, Microsoft, Omar Offendum, Poetic Pilgrimage, Biohazard, MTV, Great Big Story, America Repertory Theatre, Motor City Museum and Staples. 

Dan’s educational work includes classes, guest lectures and consulting for Nomadic Wax Records, US.A.I.D, Boston University, UN Peacekeeping, Tufts University, and MIT.  Dan runs the Pro Tools User Group for Boston and is hired to upgrade studio and live rigs for pro use and advices brand name audio companies on features and usability. Dan received Berklee’s prestigious Fly Grant in 2016 for his work initiating student-artist collaborations with Global Hip-Hop performers from Iraq, Syria and London on the Boston campus  to promote diversity, global understanding, and social change. In 2005 Dan helped establish the Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival, which now, in its 11th season, has featured and recorded artists like K’Naan, KRS1, The Narcycist and Dead Prez. Dan won the Soberano award for best album of the year in 2015 as well as multiple CARA and BoHSA’s for producing many College and High School A cappella albums.  He is currently the AES Faculty advisor at Berklee College of Music and is proud to support young engineers though mentoring and Notable internships.

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 for recordings and broadcasts. Jim’s recording “Modern Cool” won the Grammy for Best Surround Album at the 55th Grammy Awards and his recording “Sixteen Sunsets” was nominated for Best Surround Album at the 56th Grammy Awards.

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 and, since 1980, Jim has had a career as an independent audio engineer and producer. He has been a frequent lecturer and speaker for the 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 New York City Section of the AES and was Chair of the 119t, 123rd, 131st, and 135th AES Conventions. In 2006, he was made a Fellow of the AES and was also the President of the Audio Engineering Society, 2008-2009.

APS - Audio Pro Solutions 

Manufacturer of professional monitors and High End Home speakers. APS was born from an encounter between a composer and sound engineer/producer, brilliant speaker designers and a group of highly motivated audiophiles and music lovers.

APS was established in 2006 as a project devoted to studio sound production technique. As we use professional project and measurement tools, we have total control over the final effect at each stage of the product creation. Ready-made projects are implemented into production with maximum attention paid to the quality of the final product. Our present offer includes active studio monitors.

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group. We are the leading publisher in media technology, providing engaging, and practical content, and tools to help you excel in fields including Audio Engineering, Recording, Mixing, Mastering, Editing, MIDI, Music Business, Dance, DJing, and more. For further details visit www.routledge.com/audio

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Martha de Francisco is a record producer and recording engineer who specializes in Classical music. She is a professor for Sound Recording at McGill University in Montreal.

An internationally acknowledged leader in the field of sound recording and record production Martha has recorded with some of the greatest classical musicians of our time for the major record labels and in the best concert halls. She has credits on over 300 recordings, mostly for worldwide release, many of which have been distinguished with the most prestigious awards.

A graduate from the renowned Tonmeister program at the Musikhochschule Detmold, Germany, Martha was one of the pioneers of digital recording and editing in Europe during the 1980s. In her many years on staff as producer/engineer/editor with Philips Classics, she developed long lasting working relationships with many prominent artists.

Martha has been entrusted with the recording legacy of world-class soloists and orchestras from Alfred Brendel to the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has worked with such artists as Jessye Norman, Claudio Arrau, Simon Rattle and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner, the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir and Neville Marriner and the Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields. She has recorded in a variety of venues throughout the world, including the Musikverein in Vienna, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Moscow Conservatoire, Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.

Martha is a frequent lecturer at international professional conferences as well as a guest lecturer at leading schools for higher education in Audio in locations as varied as Banff, Moscow, Düsseldorf, Bogotá and New York.                 

Her research topics include the latest surround-sound techniques, music recording with virtual acoustics and the aesthetics of recorded music.

The MATLAB and Simulink product families are fundamental applied math and computational tools adopted by more than 5000 universities and colleges. MathWorks products help prepare students for careers in industry, where the tools are widely used for data analysis, mathematical modeling, and algorithm development in collaborative research and new product development. 

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Producer/engineer Tim Martyn is a four-time Grammy award recipient, including the 2014 award for “Best Engineered Classical Album”.  In 1985, Mr. Martyn was appointed Director of Audio for the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood festival, a position he still holds today.  In a career spanning more than 30 years he has worked as engineer and producer with a wide variety of artists, from Yo Yo Ma and Renée Fleming to James Taylor and John Williams.  Mr. Martyn holds Bachelor and Masters degrees in performance from the Juilliard School.  He has served on the Recording Academy NY Chapter Board of Governors, and on the teaching faculties of the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Tanglewood Music Center.

   Sonnox is a market-leading audio software company devoted to designing innovative, high quality audio processing plug-ins. The award-winning Oxford Plugins are used by professionals worldwide for mixing Music, Film, Television, Radio and Live Sound. 

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U-He have been generous enough to once again sponsor the Student Recording Competition.

Berlin-based audio software company u-he was founded in 2001 by Urs Heckmann. Originally a one-man show, the company recently evolved into a tightly-knit team of employees, active associates and 3rd-party contractors – with ambitious plans.

Especially well known for the Zebra2 and Diva software synthesizers, u-he has developed several other successful products over the last decade, and regularly contributes freeware to popular magazines (available as download or on cover discs).

Despite their underlying complexity, u-he synths and effects are widely acclaimed for their ease of use. This is often attributed to Urs Heckmann's background as industrial designer. Heckmann sees the seemingly unconventional decision to start an audio software company as a direct result of his equal love for industrial design and for synthesizers.

Most recently, u-he has been exploring concepts for analogue synthesizers, and the first results can be heard in the software synths ACE / Bazille (audio-rate modulation paths) as well as Diva, Presswerk and Satin (accurate simulation of electronic circuitry). Hive is u-he's first foray into the world of low CPU dance-oriented synths.

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  Check out Auralex, sponsor of the Student Design Competition at AES 141!

Auralex Acoustics® was founded over 20 years ago on the belief that there had to be a much better alternative to the expensive acoustic foam panels available at that time. Indeed there was; not only dramatically less expensive, but also with significant performance advantages.

Today Auralex takes great pride in offering a full line of acoustical products based on the “better price/better mousetrap” principle.

The great initial success of Studiofoam® quickly led to other innovations including our industry-leading Venus™and LENRD™ Bass Traps. When no reasonably priced diffusors existed, we developed the high-performance T’Fusor™and MiniFusor™. When our customers demanded a modular, absorptive, expandable, and, most importantly, portable solution, we introduced the MAX-Wall™ (the first acoustical product to ever be featured on the cover of a major industry magazine) and Stand-Mounted LENRDs™ to great widespread acclaim!

When there were few low-cost, effective construction and isolation products, we answered with SheetBlok™, U-Boat™ Floor Floaters, PlatFoam™, and other affordable solutions. Most recently, our staff has created specialty products such as the GRAMMA™ (Gig & Recording Amp & Monitor Modulation Attenuator) and our hot new MoPADs™ that answer critical isolation needs and result in dramatically truer sound.

While some may try to imitate us, they fall way short.