ASCAP Attacks Creative Commons, Advocacy Groups as Anti-Copyright, Anti-Artist

Vintage image ( CC-BY-SA ) Ioan Sameli , as licensed by us pinko commies at CDM. An ASCAP fundraising letter revealed last week that the American performing rights organization is invoking fears of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, and Creative Commons in order to raise money. ASCAP appears to be repeating, now in the more heated language of fundraising, arguments it has had with the Creative Commons license in the past. [...]

RIP: Walter Sear, Synth Guru and Studio Legend

Walter Sear addresses the AES convention in 2011 . Photo courtesy the Audio Engineering Society, used by permission. It’s the end of an era: pioneering synth guru, engineer, sound designer, instrument importer, composer, producer, and owner of the landmark Sear Sound recording studio in New York has died at age [...]

Euro AES Returns to the UK

For the first time in 23 years, the Audio Engineering Society returns to London for its European convention slated for May 22 to 25, 2010.Deliberately placed in a more intimate and centrally located smaller venue, the 128th AES convention takes place at the Novotel London West Convention Centre, near the Hammersmith underground [...]

Shure, NHCA Release Results From Hearing Tests at AES 2009

Shure Incorporated in Niles, Ill., and the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) have released the results of recent hearing tests performed at the 2009 Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention in New York City. Shure sponsored the free hearing screenings, which the NHCA conducted for several hundred AES attendees, many of whom work in the professional audio [...]

AES 129th Convention Posts Exhibitor Application Online

Chris Plunkett, the Audio Engineering Society’s director of convention management, has announced that the 129th Audio Engineering Society Convention Exhibitor Application has been posted. [...]