AES Student-Section Graz

Liebe Leute,

die AES Student Section Graz veranstaltet dieses Jahr wieder den Winter-Workshop-Wahnsinn! Folgendes ist im Programm:

29.11.: Lichttechnik Workshop https://www.facebook.com/events/2414478591946307/

04.12.: PD Workshop – Anfänger https://www.facebook.com/events/1981308408596290/

05.12.: Audio Plugin Workshop – Anfänger https://www.facebook.com/events/273647719961577/

12.12.: PD Workshop – Fortgeschritten https://www.facebook.com/events/262810034432186/

tba.  : Audio Plugin Workshop – Fortgeschritten https://www.facebook.com/events/184906482391959/

Für die Anmeldung zu den Workshops schreibt bitte eine email an info@aes-graz.org mit: - Workshop - Name - Email - Telefon-Nr. - AES Mitglied ja/nein

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Beste Grüße, Eure AES Student Section Graz

This year’s first breakout-session was a special one – A special spatial one to be precise. Instead of a bunch of people gathering behind the mixing console in the recording studio, this session had a lot of participants, trying to get a center seat at the IEM CUBE, a loudspeaker hemisphere, designed for spatial audio playback. And while usually the breakout-sessions feature music productions from a wide range of genres, this one had completely different projects.

After yet another attempt to explain ambisonics in simple words from board members Thomas Deppisch and Nils Meyer-Kahlen, our collegue Leon Merkel gave a demonstration of his ambisonics reverb plugin, which he will present at the Tonmeistertagung in Cologne. After his talk and his sound examples, guests were invited to test the tool during the break.

After the break, 3 students from sound design, Clemens Markart, Michael Bernsteiner and Simon Dolliana, showed their fantastic contributions to Europe’s second 3D Audio student production competition, which will also take place at the Tonmeistertagung. We want to wish them good luck for their productions!

The last project was from the IEM staff itself. Matthias Frank and Daniel Rudrich took the stage to show a recent 360-degree audio/video choir recording and made sure to point out that ambisonics recording isn’t limited to special microphones – recordings with well-sounding large non-coincendet microphone arrays can easily be encoded into ambisonics too. Since Daniel is also the father of the IEM plugin suite, he took the chance to promote his RoomEncoder plugin and asked people to vote for it at the JUCE Plugin Award. Good luck for that too!

All in all it was a very diverse and successful evening, which was concluded over beer and pizza. We are very much looking forward to the next session.

Liebe Leute,

die kalte Jahreszeit bahnt sich an, also wird es wieder Zeit den Campus Inffeld mit feinstem AES Flammkuchen und Glühwein zu versorgen.

Datum: Dienstag, 6.11. Uhrzeit: Ab 12:00 Uhr (Glühwein ab 16:00 Uhr) Ort: Inffeldgasse 16b

AKTION! Wenn du ein eigenes Häferl mitbringt bekommst du Rabatt auf den Glühwein!

Falls du Lust hast uns am Stand zu helfen kannst du dich in folgendes Sheet eintragen: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u7TCz18z2sP4ZJcHBo9LVwParFFGU7nvEt6Hud-VoYY/edit?usp=sharing

Wir freuen uns auf euch!

AES Student-Section Graz

Die AES Student Section Graz lädt herzlich zur Special-Spatial-Breakoutsession!

Bei den Breakoutsessions geht es darum, dass Studierende Aufnahmen vorstellen, die sie gemacht haben. Nach der Präsentation von einigen Details der Produktion (Mikrofone, Effekte, Besonderheiten,…) gibt es dann Feedback und eine Diskussion. Jeder ist eingeladen etwas vorzustellen – fragt einfach bei der AES an!

Da dies die erste Breakoutsession des Semesters ist, sind besonders alle Erstis herzlich eingeladen!

Die Special-Spatial-Breakoutsession ist eine Besonderheit. Sie findet nicht im Tonstudio, sondern im CUBE statt, da Ambisonics-Produktionen vorgestellt werden. Manchmal wird im Zuge der Session auch neue Spatial Audio Technologie vorgestellt. So wird es an diesem Termin neben 2 Projekten auch ein Hall-Plugin zu bestaunen geben.

Wir freuen uns auf euch!

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Du hast erste Erfahrungen beim Aufnehmen von Musik gesammelt, die du nun professionell abmischen möchtest? Wir helfen dir dabei!

Together with a small delegation of the IEM Graz and our colleagues from the Sound Design course we visited our peers from HAW Hamburg at the klingt gut! Symposium 2018. Between 7th and 9th of june we enjoyed various exhibitions, posters, concerts and lectures all about audio development.

Doing our part in the conference, Daniel Rudrich (iem) presented the iem PluginSuite; Nils Meyer-Kahlen and Thomas Deppisch showed their cubical loudspeakers and Valerie Quade (Sound Design) won the “klingt gut young artist” award and the whole group of the Sound Design students exhibited their “Jam Session Machine”.

See you next year, Hamburg!

The time has come for the third round of our famous international annual job opportunity meeting (“Berufsaussichtstreffen”). In order to broaden the career spectrum for our current students, the job opportunity meeting is an event where a handful of Toningenieur alumnis gather in Graz and talk about their career path.

This year, on June 5th, our guests were:

Theresa Loss – Signalverarbeiterin bei Eologix Sensor Technology

Peter Plessas – freischaffender Lehrender im Bereich der Ton und Medienkunst

Phillip Aichinger – Researcher an der Meduni Wien

This years’ AES Convention in Milano was a blast! The AES Student Section was present with 25 participants from all levels of experience. While some enjoyed recording tutorials and mixing sessions, others mostly attended the interesting and diverse lectures or even had a talk or poster themselves. With 12 contributions to talks, posters, workshops and demos from Graz, there was plenty to support. Some of our members also helped with the technology in the large 3D audio room, where the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics from our university had installed a large ambisonics system. Also there was a gold price for a contribution to the design competition – congratulations! Apart from the program itself, we took the chance to meet up with other students, always happy to exchange ideas in running a student section. And ontop of all: the italien coffee was great too!

Nachdem das Wetter kälter und die Tag kürzer wurden, saßen alle Studierenden vor dem Computer um entweder Serien zu schauen oder um zu lernen. Die AES Studen-Section Graz entschied sich, etwas dagegen zu tun und, naja alle wieder vor einen Computer zu setzen. Wir organisierten den “Winter Workshop Wahnsinn”, bei dem wir ein spannendes Paket an Workshops zu Programmen und Programmiersprachen aus Audiotechnik und Elektrotechnik schnürten.

Zum einen gab es unsere jährlichen Workshops (Anfänger und Fortgeschritten) für Pure Data, einer graphischen Programmiersprache die sehr stark am IEM Graz benutzt und weiterentwickelt wird. Pure Data ermöglicht uns, Software Synthesizer zu bauen, Sound Design Patches zu realisieren und digitale Mixing Systeme für Multichannel Audio Formate wie Ambisonics oder Binaural Audio aufzusetzen. Als Vortragenden konnten wir Veit Winkler, ehemeliger AES SDA Vice Chair (2010), Toningenieur und langjähriger Pure Data User gewinnen.

Unser Kollege Florian Loacker-Schöch hielt einen Wokshop für EAGLE, dem “Einfach Anzuwendender Grafischen Layout-Editor”, einer Software mit der man PCB Layouts und Schaltkreis Diagramme designen kann. Dieser Workshop wurde als erweiterung zu unserem Langzeitprojekt “Klangwerkstatt” gehalten. Bei diesem Projekt arbeiten Studierende zusammen, um selbst analoge Audio-Hardware zu bauen.

Zu guter Letzt war es uns eine Freude, auf Grund des großen Interesses zwei Einheiten eines JUCE Workshops zu veranstalten, gehalten von Daniel Rudrich (IEM/KUG). JUCE ist ein C++ Application Framework, fokussiert auf mobile und Desktopanwendungen vor allem im Bereich GUI und Plug-ins. Wegen seiner starken Processing Blocks für Audio ist es sehr handlich, um VST Plug-ins zu schreiben.

Alle Workshops wurden gerne besucht und haben viel Spaß gemacht. Wir sind sehr stolz, dass jeder Workshop von Studierenden und ehemaligen Studierenden unseres Studiengangs Elektrotechnik-Toningenieur gehalten wurde.

Since the wheater got colder and the days less sunnier, every student either felt the urge to sit in front of a screen and watch the latest series or even to study. As AES Student-Section Graz, we’ve decided to do something about that and, well, put everybody behind a screen. We organized the “Winter Workshop Madness”, where we put together a bundle of various workshops on exciting programming languages for several audio and electronic related applications. There were our annual workshops (novice and advanced) for Pure Data, the graphical programming language which is heavily used and developed at the IEM Graz. Pure Data enables us to build software synthesizers, create deep sound design patches or setup a digital mixing system for multichannel-audio formats like Ambisonics and binaural audio. Traditionally, it was held by our colleague Veit Winkler, former SDA Chair (2010) and longtime Pure Data user in a novice and an advanced part. Further we had a workshop in EAGLE, the Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor, which is a handy software to design PCB Layouts and circuit diagrams. This workshop was held as extension of our longtime project “Klangwerkstatt” in which students join together to build their own analog audio gear. Fellow sound engineer Florian Loacker-Schöch hosted this interesting workshop for our students. Last but not least, we had the pleasure of hosting not one, but two editions of a JUCE workshop, presented by Daniel Rudrich (IEM/KUG). JUCE is a C++ application framework designed for creating mobile and desktop applications and is heavily used because of it’s GUI and plug-in capabilities. Because of it’s strong signal processing library it is very handy for writing VST plug-ins. All workshops were well recieved and were a lot of fun. We are very happy, that each workshop was held by students and former students of our study Electrical Engineering and Audio Engineering.