PREVIOUS EVENTS

Wednesday 12 November 2008

Section Seminar: An Overview of Loudspeaker Technology from Bang & Olufsen (20 people attending) 

By Gert Munch

Bang and Olufsen are a Danish audio company with over 80 years of craftsmanship and innovation behind them making them one of the world’s strongest audio and multimedia brands. In this AES York Student Section seminar Gert Kudahl Munch, Technology Specialist in Electroacoustics Acoustics Research, will be presenting an overview of loudspeaker development at B&O. This will cover subjects including the project development model; initial design considerations including performance, drivers, closed box or vented box; low frequency modeling and measurements; in cabinet standing waves; section measurements and response target definition; filter generation; listening tests; applied technologies including Acoustic Lens. 

Wednesday 6 November 2008

Alex Southern - Chairman
Matt Stevens - Vice-chairman
Leo Laughlin - Treasurer
Tom Byles - Secretary

Tuesday 27 November 2007

Section Annual General Meeting and Elections - New Officers elected for 2007-2008:

Chris Baume - Chairman
Steve Oxnard - Vice-chairman
Toby Stokes - Treasurer
Rowan Smales - Secretary
Matt Robbetts - MEng representitive

Wednesday 1 November 2006 (55 people attending) [view event poster]

For the first section meeting of the 06/07 academic year, there was a talk by Ben Hillier

Wednesday 10 May 2006

Section Annual General Meeting and Elections - New Officers elected for 2006-2007:

Tim Granger - Chair
Kim Taylor - Treasurer and Secretary
Ainslie Harris - Webmaster

Wednesday 8 March 2006 (30 people attending) [view event poster]

Tony Faulkner

Wednesday 1 March 2006 (28 people attending) [view event poster]

Lindsay Dodd

Wednesday 26 October 2005 (34 people attending)

This was the first open meeting of the section for the 2005/2006 academic year. An introductory talk was given by the executive committee outlining the role of the AES and the plans of the student section for the coming year.

A talk was given by electronics student Lewis Saunders, about his sandwich year at a recording studio in Wales.

Wednesday 25 May 2005 (30 people attending)

This was the inaugural meeting of the UK's first student section of the AES. First to speak was Jerry Ibbotson, creative director for the York based computer game programming company, Media Mill. He spoke of his career as a journalist at the BBC, how he moved from there to starting his own company, and what made him choose computer games. Jerry then demonstrated two stunning animated clips for which he had done the sound, used as promotional videos for forthcoming games. When the audience had lifted there jaws from the floor after seeing the videos, Jerry fielded a barrage of questions which he graciously answered.

The second speaker for the meeting was Jamie Searle, a broadcast engineer for BBC Radio York. He outlined how his career went from working in the manufacturing department of BBC equipment, to becoming a broadcast engineer for 20 years. Jamie spoke of how the equipment needed by a radio station has changed over the years, and how his role has been to incorporate the new equipment into the old system. Props included a portable reel-to-reel recorder, to show students how journalists used to have to record interviews. A large number of questions also followed Jamie's talk, and he was more then willing to speak thoroughly about any aspect of his role.

Both speakers talked in great depth, totally willing to give away the secrets of audio success they had gathered throughout their long careers with audio.

Wednesday 2 March 2005

First meeting and AGM. Elections held. Section ratified in June 2005 at the 118th International Convention in Barcelona