The technical council and its first technical committees were founded by the Audio engineering Society in 1979, and standing rules covering their activities were established in 1986, with the intention of defining and consolidating the technical leadership of the Society for the benefit of the membership. The Technical Council consists of the Officers of the Technical Council, the Chairmen of the Technical Committees, the Editor of the Journal, and as ex-officio members without vote, the other Officers of the Society. Officers of the Technical Council include: Robert Schulein - Chairman (Send E-mail) Juergen Herre - Vice Chairman (Send E-mail) Jim Kaiser - Vice Chairman (Send E-mail)

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124th AES Convention in Amsterdam, May 17-20, 2008

Current Areas of Work

New Technical Document: Recommendation for delivery of recorded music projects Technical Document: Multichannel surround sound systems and operations

The Technical Council currently supports 22 Technical Committees representing 22 distinct fields of audio engineering theory and practice. The Committees are as follows: Photos of Distinguished Lecturers Memorial Lecture at 124th: The Big Challenges in Audio, a glance into the future Memorial Lecture at 123rd: Aspects Of Concert Hall Acoustics Memorial Lecture at 122nd: What is needed to have the Audio-Eldorado at home? Memorial Lecture at 121st: History and Practice in Digital Sound Synthesis Memorial Lecture at 120th: Spatially-Selective Sound Capture Memorial Lecture at 119th: Sound Transmission and Analysis in the Ear - Recent Insights Memorial Lecture at 118th: The Rise of Digital Audio: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Memorial Lecture at 117th: Edison's First Sound Film and the Three Fathers of Cinema Memorial Lecture at 116th: From Analog to Digital Memorial Lecture at 115th: The Future of Music in the Age of Spiritual Machines Memorial Lecture at 114th: Communication Acoustics: Audio Goes Cognitive Memorial Lecture at 113th: Modern Electret Microphones and Their Applications Memorial Lecture at 112th: Some Musings on Progress in Audio: A Quest for Better Sound at Affordable Prices Memorial Lecture at 111th: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Audio Memorial Lecture at 110th: Acoustics in Small Studios Memorial Lecture at 109th: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet Memorial Lecture at 108th: Audio in the New Millennium Memorial Lecture at 107th: Digital Audio and the Challenge of the Internet On 1999 September 26 at the AES 107th Convention in New York members of the Society's Technical Committee on Network Audio Systems demonstrated the first-ever real-time transmission of DVD-quality, multichannel audio over the Internet. On October 25 2000 at the AES 109th Convention in New York members of the Society's Technical Committee on Network Audio Systems presented a demonstration of the Internet transmission of multichannel music in high-resolution, production quality 24bit/96kHz PCM. AES White Paper: Networking Audio and Music Using Internet2 and Next-Generation Internet Capabilities The Technical Council and its Committees publish both private and publicly available Meeting Reports and Technical documents. Please refer to the AES Technical Council and Committees Document Repository for publicly available documents. (C) 2008, Audio Engineering Society, Inc.