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Audio Society - 2019 Election Candidate Information

Candidate for AES President-Elect

JOEL VIEIRA DE BRITO received his degree from Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. He later went on to a post-graduation in Telecommunications from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He started his audio career at 18, and spent 20 years in the touring and theater reinforcement business. He currently works as a design on electroacoustical projects and as a consultant for manufacturers. Since 2001, Joel has had an active role in the Brazil Section, having served as Chairman three times, Committeeman and currently as Treasurer. Joel has been the Convention Chairman for the Section’s annual national convention for the last 17 years, organized numerous regional meetings throughout the country, 15 engineering conferences and the first Brazilian student recording competition. He was the Co-Chair for the AES Latin American Conference in 2009, and was awarded the Board of Governors Award for that service. As Vice President Latin America Region 2010 to 2013 he worked on increasing membership, creating new Sections and organizing Section events throughout Latin America as well as the Latin American Conferences of 2010 in Colombia, 2011 in Montevideo and 2012 in Guatemala. He has served as a member of the Society’s Laws and Resolutions, Nominations, Membership and Awards Committees. He is a member of AES SC-05-05, SC-05-02 and SC-04-03 Standards Committees. In March 2019, at the AES Dublin Convention, for “advancing the audio industry in Brazil and Latin America through decades of broad contributions to the Society,” Joel became a Fellow of the AES.

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My decision to stand for the position of President-elect reflects commitment to the AES’s purpose to bring together the audio community. I would like for us to be known for significant accomplishments - ones we identify together. With almost twenty years of governance experience and proven leadership, I feel that my experience working under the leadership of the AES has also put me in a position to better understand the challenges of our society and how to further our agenda.

If elected, you may be assured of my continuing commitment to fiduciary duty, creating new alliances with industry, and the pursuit of audio excellence.

Candidate for AES President-Elect

JONATHAN WYNER is a professor and author at the Berklee College of , Director of Education at iZotope and a well-known engineer at M Works Mastering whose credits include David Bowie, Aerosmith, James Taylor and Miles Davis, the National Archive of New Zealand and countless others. A Member since the mid 1980’s, Jonathan’s dedication and commitment to the AES has shown itself through several roles. Jonathan served as Co-Chair of the 145th international AES Convention in New York, coordinating a new and engaging program that reflected the changing face of audio business and technology. He continues the role of Convention Co-Chair for the upcoming 147th AES Convention in October 2019.

Jonathan has produced award winning educational content in his roles at Berklee College and iZotope and he has presented workshops and tutorials at many conventions and conferences in the U.S., Brazil, Poland, Germany, Ireland and Mexico. He is an active member of the AES Education and Diversity and Inclusion Committees, as well as the AES Technical Council’s Recording Technology and Production Committee.

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I have a sense of urgency that the AES needs to continue to evolve. During the last several years we have made great strides in modernizing our organization and systems and are taking steps towards a more diverse and more representative membership. I would look forward to continuing this work and will encourage a focus on modern technology and workflows in our programming. We also need to foster partnerships with research and industry building on that tradition in the AES.

Local Sections are our life blood and we should work to help increase the visibility of the great things that are happening in them. We need to broadcast news and content from our offerings to new audiences by using web-based resources and innovating with programming at focused regional events everywhere.

The AES is a great platform for networking, education and an exchange of ideas about all things audio that we should work to bring to an ever-widening membership. Candidate for AES Treasurer-Elect

RICHARD WOLLRICH is currently the AES Treasurer and a member of the Society’s five-member Executive Committee.

Richard currently serves as Chair of the Finance Committee and is also Co-Chair of the Society’s Convention Policy Committee. He was recently asked to serve as Treasurer for the upcoming 147th International Convention to be held in New York. This is a follow-up to his having successfully served as Treasurer of the 145th, 143rd, and 141st International Conventions.

While performing these functions, Richard created a comprehensive budget structure to track delegate registration, exhibitor booth space sales, company-direct sponsorships and event expenditures. This provided, on a week-by- week basis, information on the financial health of each event, all of which proved to be financially successful.

Richard’s philosophy as AES Treasurer has been to review the duties and responsibilities of that role, and work closely with the Executive Committee, the Board of Governors and the various Committees. He brings what he considers to be a fresh, committed focus on fiscal responsibility while identifying new technologies and practices utilized within other business environments that are relevant to the AES business model and determine how to effectively implement them at minimal cost.

Richard earned a Bachelor of Degree in Business Administration with a minor in accounting from Woodbury University, a Southern California private university specializing in business.

During his career, Richard has also held full-, elected officer positions as Treasurer and Secretary/Treasurer for several large International Alliance of Theatrical Employees/IATSE-affiliated unions serving the entertainment industry.

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I have demonstrated that I possess the core skill set to develop realistic financial statements in with the Executive Director and the financial working groups within the AES. I have closely managed real-time income and expenses for AES domestic and international conventions, conferences and symposiums, to ensure that the Society does not incur unanticipated losses.

I believe that the AES needs to identify what new technologies and practices are being used by similar organizations, and to consider how we can implement them to improve our bottom-line results.

I hope that you will consider my experience as the past AES Treasurer-Elect and now AES Treasurer, as well as my past experience in the role of Treasurer for several large organizations in the entertainment industry, together with an earned Bachelor of Science Degree in business and my sincere dedication to the AES, when considering my willingness to continue to serve the Society as Treasurer. Candidate for AES Vice President Central Region, U.S. &

IAN CORBETT is the Coordinator and Professor of Audio Engineering and at Kansas City Kansas Community College. He also owns and operates “off-beat-open-hats LLC,” providing live sound and recording services to clients in the Kansas City area. He has mixed FOH, and occasionally monitors, for many headline artists at venues around the USA. Throughout his career he has balanced education with professional employment in a wide variety of audio industry fields, including theater sound, television and radio, location concert recording, live sound reinforcement, and forensic audio evidence recording. As the co-founder and technical director of Midwest, a contemporary established in 2002, he enjoys multichannel sound and presenting immersive concert experiences. Ian’s book, Mic It! – , Techniques, and Their Impact on the Final Mix was published by Focal Press in 2015, and he also writes articles for magazine. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition, and can also be found playing saxophone in Kansas City’s clubs and restaurants.

Highly active in the AES for almost twenty years, Ian has presented tutorials and workshops at local, regional, national, and international AES events (as well as at other professional events) throughout the USA, Central and South America, and Europe. Always wanting to provide value and educational opportunities for AES members, he has organized and moderated the Student Recording Critique sessions at AES conventions in the USA and Europe for about ten years, as well as being a frequent judge of the Student Recording Competition. 2019 will be his thirteenth year as an invited presenter at the AES Central Region Audio Student Summit, third year as an invited presenter at the Latin American AES Conference, and he has also hosted the AES Student Mixer at AES@NAMM since its inception two years ago.

Ian travels internationally, independently, to give presentations and workshops at colleges, universities and to student and professional groups, always representing the AES, and promoting its values and the benefits of membership to attendees. Internationally recognized, he also frequently serves as an external examiner, moderator and program evaluator in the U.S. and Europe. Since 2004 he has been a member of the AES Education Committee, and in line with his desire to increase membership through promotion and development of membership value, he currently serves on the AES Membership and the Diversity & Inclusion Committees.

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I enjoy providing educational opportunities to AES members and prospective members at audio events around the world. The development and promotion of the tangible and intangible career and personal benefits of AES membership are of paramount importance to me. I look forward to being able to help facilitate the growth of AES Sections and their members, as well as to promote the benefits of long term sustained memberships. I look forward to being empowered to answer questions from constituents with “let me help you with that,” as well as being an approachable bridge between membership and AES HQ.

Candidate for AES Vice President Central Region, U.S. & Canada

BILL SCHULENBURG has been an active AES Member since 1971 and was part of the founding committee that returned an energetic and growing AES section to the St. Louis region in 2008. He is the owner of studio facility Production Consultants, and for 19 years has also been an Adjunct Professor in Webster University’s Department of Audio Aesthetics and Technology, helping to facilitate the cooperation of AES Student and Professional Sections to the benefit of both while supporting audio education activities and industry events throughout the region. Since its beginning in the 1960s at legendary Technisonic Studios, Bill’s multi-media production career as an award-winning recording engineer/mixer/producer, sound designer, , voice actor, and director/editor, and consultant has encompassed music recording, surround mixing, disk mastering, commercials, TV and radio programming, motion picture features, podcasts, audiobooks, games, interactive training, live sound, and theatre. Bill is a SAG-AFTRA Director, and Life Member of both and the AES, currently serving as Chair of the St. Louis AES Section. If elected Central Region Vice President he would work with Section leaders to further advance the Audio Engineering Society’s vital mission of expanding the professional and public appreciation of the science, art, and true value of audio in today’s media communications.

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Throughout a lifetime devoted to the audio profession, AES membership has proved to be invaluable to my career and reinforced my belief in the importance of promoting to the public the real value of our craft of audio and its skilled practitioners: AES members. Recruiting, connecting, uniting, and educating a diversity of audio professionals and organizations while helping all achieve growth and success strengthens the AES worldwide and ensures an exciting future for our industry. I’d truly appreciate the opportunity to help local Sections find effective ways to meet their challenges as Central Region Vice President.

Candidate for AES Vice President Central Region, Europe

THOMAS GÖRNE was born in Bonn, Germany, in 1963. He went to high school near Hamburg until 1982 and moved to Berlin, where he graduated in Electrical Engineering with a major in from TU Berlin in 1991. During his studies he started working as a freelance live sound engineer, and began a career as an ADR, Foley and re-recording mixer with several film post production companies, including Studio Babelsberg, Arri Contrast and Berliner Synchron, working for more than 300 TV and film productions.

After graduation he was a research assistant at TU Berlin, working on artificial neural networks and pattern recognition. From 1999 to 2003 he was a member of the research staff at the Department of at Potsdam University, performing research on the acoustics of the organ. In between, he founded the Carpe Diem and produced a number of Early Music works with artists like William Dongois, Hille Perl and Lee Santana, and continued working in film post production.

In 2004, Thomas was appointed to a professorship at Detmold University of Music, and later became head of Detmold’s Tonmeister education. Since 2008 he has served as Professor at Hamburg University of Applied (HAW Hamburg). He is head of the Sound Lab at HAW Hamburg and he founded the Immersive Audio Lab.

Thomas is a passionate educator, lecturing not just at HAW Hamburg, but during the last years also at HdM Stuttgart, HfG Karlsruhe, Einstein Forum Potsdam, hdpk Berlin, University of Greenwich and CSU Long Beach. He is author of several textbooks on audio engineering, including Mikrofone - Theorie und Praxis (Microphones, Elektor 1994/2007, currently in the 9th edition), and Tontechnik (Sound Engineering, Hanser 2006, currently in the 4th edition). His last book Sounddesign - Klang, Wahrnehmung, Emotion ( - Sound, Perception, Emotion) on film sound was published in 2017. He gained the Excellence in Education Award of the State of Hamburg (Hamburger Lehrpreis) in 2014.

He has been an AES Member since 1991, he is member of VDT and DEGA, Audio Expert at Germany’s National Accreditation Body (DAkkS), and he is the founder and Faculty Advisor of AES Hamburg Student Section. He was Papers Co-Chair of 140th AES Convention Paris. In 2015, he founded “klingt gut!” International Symposium on Sound, an event at the cross-section of art and technology, and continues to conduct the symposium. His main research interests include immersive audio and the emotional impact of sound.

Besides his professional activities in audio engineering and sound design, Thomas is a jazz drummer, and he holds the 2nd Dan in Tae Kwon Do.

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I had the honor and pleasure to serve as the Vice President for Central Europe Region since 2017, and I would be very grateful if I would be given the opportunity to continue with this work. Being responsible for the AES Sections in Central Europe is a challenging and exciting task and a major honor. My main objectives as a VP are to support and connect the European Professional and Student Sections, to bring professionals as well as students into the Society, and to encourage and support the Sections in planning and events both for students and professionals. Candidate for AES Vice President Central Region, Europe

EWA ŁUKASIK is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Computing Science, Laboratory of Operational Research and Artificial Intelligence, Poznan University of Technology, Poland. In her research and didactic work she promotes audio science and applications in the domain of computing and applies new Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence methods in audio research. She holds a MSc degree in and a PhD in and Telecommunications (‘92). Through the years, she has been acquiring knowledge and practice in various domains of computing science and computer technology. She has been mastering her organizational skills in the Polish Information Processing Society (Poland’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation), serving as a Member of the Board and as the Editor in Chief of its Bulletin, organizing multiple conferences and events. She is also a member of IEEE.

Ewa started her research in algorithms, continued in speech processing and recognition, to arrive to content-based audio information retrieval, general music informatics and media, always focusing on interdisciplinary aspects. Recently she joined the interdisciplinary group aiming at the development of the digital library of Polish traditional music with the up-to-date functionality. She is the author of over 100 papers and an active reviewer of scientific papers. She is also a member of Technical Branch of the Polish Normalization Committee.

Ewa joined the Audio Engineering Society in 2004. Shortly afterwards she became an AES Polish Section Board Member and frequent participant in AES conventions and conferences in Poland organized under the auspices of the Polish AES Section: International Symposium on Sound Engineering and Tonmeistering (ISSET) and New Technologies in Audio and Video (NTAV). She actively promotes the AES among students in Poznań, organizing multiple audio events and sessions, e.g. a visit by Ian Corbett or Zylia workshops. In 2014, thanks to her efforts, a new AES Poznań Student Section was created. She became its Faculty Advisor. In 2018 Ewa was the Chair of the Organization Committee of the NTAV Conference organized with the cooperation of the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Centre, where Nadja Wallaszkovits was the keynote speaker.

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The AES is a fantastic place where theory meets practice, science meets arts and technology, audio meets AI and everything is immersed in enthusiasm unprecedented elsewhere. It will be my honor and pleasure to add my professional and organizational experience to its development.

My goal would be to develop the cooperation between Sections in Central Europe, especially using new communication technologies. I will work on promoting AI in the field of audio among young computing , put my efforts to encourage students to participate in student design competitions at AES Conventions and to remain AES members after graduation.

Candidate for AES Vice President Southern Region Europe, Middle East, Africa

UFUK ÖNEN is a music producer, audio recording engineer, consultant, author and educator. He has produced and recorded more than 50 , EPs and singles in Turkey, his native country, and has worked as a , engineer and sound designer on more than 200 Turkish, European and North American audio-visual projects. His work has appeared in international film festivals, and he has recorded and toured with Hazy Hill between 1988- 2000.

Known for his tenacity, drive and passion for delivering exceptional work, Ufuk has become a trusted partner and consultant, contributing to numerous audio, sound reinforcement, cinema sound installation and electroacoustic projects.

Ufuk is also the author of Audio Recording and Music Technologies, the first reference book in the Turkish language covering the fields of audio recording and music technology. Today, this book is standard required reading used in numerous universities and schools throughout the country. A prolific with a love for sharing his passion with others, he has published three other books, 40 articles and 150 blog posts.

Ufuk is the co-founder of Audio Technologies for Music and Media (ATMM), a trilogy of international conferences dedicated to audio and music technologies. The conferences took place at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2012, 2013 and 2014. The first of its kind in Turkey, ATMM brought together professionals, academics and practitioners and students, coming from eleven different countries.

Ufuk has been a Member of the AES for more than 10 years. He is currently AES Vice President for the Southern Europe/Middle East/Africa region. He helped found the Nigerian Section. He serves in the Board of Governors, and also in the Awards, Convention Policy and Education Committees of the AES.

Ufuk holds a B.A. in Linguistics and an M.A. in Communication and Design. He is a graduate of Los Angeles Recording School and has a PhD from The University of Salford, United Kingdom. He teaches sound design, sound synthesis, and music and media courses in the Department of Communication and Design at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

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Today, global reach has become more important than ever, not only for companies but also for non-profit organizations. Some countries in the Southern Europe/Middle East/Africa region are still developing and they have smaller audio markets and industries compared to the Western countries. However, these countries have strong youth potentials and I believe this is very important for the future of the AES in terms of potential growth. As an audio professional and an educator, who knows both the Western part of the World and this area, I will do my best to encourage the Sections in this region to be more active and to assist them to attract students, and young and aspiring audio professionals, to join our Society. I will believe this will help expand the global reach of the AES.

Candidate for AES Vice President Southern Region Europe, Middle East, Africa

ALBERTO PINTO has been involved with the audio research and education sectors since the early 2000s. Both mathematician and musician, he received a PhD in working on mathematical modelling of music and audio. He worked as a researcher in musical informatics and acoustics at the universities of Milan, Utrecht and Stanford. Author of many publications in the field, he serves as a referee for international journals and conferences, and he is member of scientific committees in sound and music computing. He still performs regularly in Italy and abroad as a concert organist and he has been honoured of giving a recital for the recent AES European Convention in Milan, Italy.

Since 2012 he has been the President of CESMA - European Center for Music and Acoustics Studies in Lugano (Switzerland) and director of the audio engineering program. Since 2012, he also serves as a Committee member of the Italian Section and, since 2014, of the Educational Committee of the Swiss Section for the AES-SEFRI federal exams of audio engineering.

An AES full Member since 2005, he has been involved in the organization of many AES workshops and conferences, both as an organizer or invited speaker. He has also been the of joint workshops and audio events between the Swiss and Italian Sections on high resolution audio and cinema sound.

In May 2018 Alberto Co-Chaired with Nadja Wallaszkovits the 144th AES Convention and he received the AES Board of Governors award for his work.

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The Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa Region comprises quite a disparate group covering a wide geographic area. As a VP, my first concern would be getting to know the local Sections and their specificities, also through meetings with the Section committees, in order to better address their needs and encourage the exchange of ideas and initiatives.

I am also keen to promote cooperation between sections in the educational sector by encouraging the exchange of professionals in international programs and exploring new opportunities for AES in the emerging markets in order to promote wider membership of the Society.

Candidate for AES Vice President Latin America Region

JORGE AZAMA is a Peruvian professional, graduated with honors in 1998 from the Instituto Superior Tecnologico Orson Welles in Lima, Peru, with a Technical Degree in Sound Engineering. He has been an AES Member since 2003, and a founding member of the AES Peru Section in 2004, participating in a very active way in his Section since then. Currently, he is Vice Chair of the AES Peru Section and has been elected as Chair of the 2019 AES Latin American Conference – AES LAC, that will take place in Lima from September 16th to 18th, 2019.

His career as a recording, mixing and live sound engineer includes several works with many renowned Peruvian and international artists like Eva Ayllon, Peru Negro (both nominated for Grammy and ), Cecilia Barraza, Indigo, Theremyn_4, Radio Criminal, Coro Voces del Sol, Resplandor, Rolovo, The Peruvian National Symphonic Orchestra, The Philharmonic Society of Lima, Entre Rios (Argentina), L´artica (Spain), (Scotland), Loveliescrushing (USA), Mouse On Mars (Germany), Sunu Africa (Senegal), and many others. He also has developed his career in the education field, as Professor at the Instituto Superior Tecnologico Orson Welles (since 2001, in their Sound Engineering and Music Production technical careers), and the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas – UPC (since 2015, in their Music Production career, as part of the Contemporary Arts Faculty). Also, he has participated as a speaker in several educational events such as AES Peru National Conferences, AES Latin American Conferences, AES Colombia National Conference and collaborated with pro- audio related articles for printed and online publications like Sound:check (Mexico), PC World (Peru) and Sonos Magazine (Peru).

Candidate for AES Vice President Latin America Region

CESAR LAMSCHTEIN joined the AES in 1996 and is a founding member of the Professional Section in Uruguay. He is a proud and active Member of the Society, organizing seminars, meetings, events and conferences. Cesar was given the AES Board of Governor’s award in 2012 for chairing the 2011 Latin American Conference in Montevideo, Uruguay and the AES Citation Award in recognition of outstanding commitment to audio education in Latin America in 2015. He has shared his knowledge and experience as a professional engineer in tutorials, workshops, presentations and on panels in Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, Ireland, France and the United States. In 2012, after designing, installing, and starting up the first word-class in Uruguay, he was called to lead the audio and video department of the National Concert Hall, Uruguay’s most prestigious venue. There, he collaborated in productions with international performers including Joe Satriani, Bajo Fondo, The Mission, Placido Domingo, José Carreras, Kitaro, Suzanne Ciani, Caetano Veloso, Djavan, and many others. Cesar has more than 20 years of audio techniques and technologies teaching experience. ORT University honored him with its teaching excellence award in 2010. He is regularly called to lecture in audio technology events and schools and he has promoted many student activities including regional recording competitions. Currently, Cesar is proudly serving as a VP for the Latin American Region and as Vice Chair of the Regions and Sections Committee of the AES.

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I am eager to continue the work that I started almost one and a half years ago. With four new Sections last year and five more already in the works, the Latin American AES Region is the fastest growing of any in the world. I am friendly and outgoing, fluent in Spanish, French, English and Portuguese, and I believe that I can still be an excellent resource for supporting AES Sections in my Region. I believe strongly in the educational and professional mission of the AES and I would be grateful for your support.

Candidate for AES Vice President Asia – Pacific Region

YONG SHEN has been an AES Member since 2004. He served as the chief representative of AES in from 2005 to 2006 and has been actively involved in promoting the development of the AES for more than 15 years. His continuous efforts include introducing the AES to hundreds of his students and trainees, promoting through ISEAT, inviting senior engineers and managers to join the AES, and working on establishing an AES section in China. He has actively participated in 11 AES Conventions and has published 18 research articles in the JAES and at AES Conventions.

Yong received BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in acoustics from University where he continued his career in research and education, and was appointed full professor in 2004. He has supervised six PhD and 42 MSc students in acoustics, and has taught over 1000 undergraduate students and professional engineers curriculum on electroacoustic transducers. He currently holds the position of Professor at the Institute of Acoustics of Nanjing University and Vice Dean at Shenzhen Research Institute of Nanjing University.

Yong organizes the ISEAT (International Symposium on Electro Acoustics Technology), a bi-annual acoustics symposium held in Shenzhen since 2007. The ISEAT, with total attendance of over 4000 people, has been making outstanding contributions to the education, research, and development of audio technologies. Remarkably, the 2017 ISEAT attracted over 1000 participants. Moreover, Yong is dedicated to the in-service education and training for Chinese audio engineers. He founded the Acoustics Talent Plan (ATP) project in 2013. To date, more than 450 engineers have graduated from this professional development program.

Yong has presided over three National Natural Science Foundation projects in acoustics, and has hosted or participated in the development and revision of 21 Chinese national standards and one IEC standard on , microphones, , earphones, receivers, and listening tests. He holds 16 national invention patents, and has published six books in acoustics and over 90 peer-reviewed articles in JAES, JASA, AA, CPL, and several Chinese journals.

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With my extensive experience in organizing the ISEAT and diverse background in academia and industry, I believe I will be an asset to the AES. I will work with the Board of Governors and Executive Committee to continue the work of the AES in an efficient, productive manner.

Candidate for AES Vice President Asia – Pacific Region

SHUSEN WANG studied audio engineering at Beijing University in China and Berlin Technical University in Germany and graduated as a sound engineer and system designer. He started his work as a sound engineer at China Radio International. He is a pioneer of stereo sound techniques for the Chinese broadcasting industry. He introduced advanced digital broadcast production and control systems for several national radio stations in China. He is also credited with the design of 5.1 systems and commentary systems for Olympic Broadcasting in China.

Within international industry, he worked with Siemens in Europe and in China for over 10 years. Since the preparation period of the Beijing 29th Olympic Games he has worked globally as an audio engineering expert for Olympic Broadcasting Services.

Shusen has been a Member of the AES for many years and serves on the Technical Committee on Audio for Cinema. He has worked within the AES to connect educators, companies and organizations in China to establish the Society’s first Professional Section in . As founding Chairman of the Beijing Section, he is arranging meeting activities and carrying out other constructive developments like arranging to translate AES Standards, the Reading Guide of JAES and Inside Tracks in Chinese, preparing Sections in , Shenzhen and Jinan, and developing memberships. He is currently Vice President of AES, in charge of the Asia-Pacific Region and a member of the AES Board Governors. He is working to expand the Society’s presence at both student and professional levels, while connecting with its global membership.

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My primary goal is to establish a greater AES presence throughout the Asia-Pacific locale, and to grow the Society’s membership in this diverse region while establishing stronger connections between our global members. With an opportunity to serve as Vice President for a second term, I believe I can help to expand the AES throughout this part of the world and bring more of the community (inventors, academics, educators, and manufacturers) into the Society.

Candidate for AES Governor

DAVID K. BIALIK earned his Bachelor of Science Degree from American University where he also managed the student radio station. A love of broadcasting and audio technology shaped the direction of his career. He has been a professional engineer in U.S. major market radio since 1983. While working at NPR affiliate WAMU-FM and at the National Technology Department in Washington DC, he published numerous articles about broadcasting and contributed extensive material to the NAB Engineering Handbook. Joining United Broadcasting’s WKDM in 1991, he achieved his goal of becoming chief engineer of a NY radio station. In 1992 he joined Bloomberg WBBR as C.E. Since forming an independent consultancy in 1995, Bialik has advised various industries world- wide including broadcasters on integrating technology applications such as studio construction, computer networking, Voice-Over IP telephony and Internet Streaming.

Bialik is currently the Director of Stream Operations for Entercom Media (formerly CBS Radio). This position has enabled him to lead a team and develop a new streaming solution that is currently being rolled out to the company properties. During the past years he has been honored to work with the engineers of CBS Radio to support streaming. He is currently leading the team that is the top level support for Entercom Streams nationwide, having worked up the ranks from Project Manager, Stream Engineer, Senior Engineer, and presently Director of Stream Operations.

A proactive involvement in the Audio Engineering Society in both the DC and NY sections has remained constant throughout his career. Bialik began serving as an AES NY Section committee member in1993. He has worked tirelessly since his first term as Chairman of Broadcast Sessions in 1989, to promote the evolution of the AES Convention into a major technical gathering for broadcasters. The 2009 AES Convention marked a change where the sessions were renamed Broadcast and Streaming to represent the evolving technologies. Bialik has led a cooperative effort with the Society of Broadcast Engineers, Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers, and the Audio Engineering Society to bring educational programs to the Convention.

In October of 2007, David was also awarded an AES Citation for his work in making broadcast audio an important part of the AES mission. The AES awarded him the Fellowship Award for his work in in 2011 and the Board of Governor’s Award in 2016. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in 2018.

David Bialik is also a member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE), Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), and the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (BTS).

Industry involvement is always paramount to Bialik, sitting on various standards and technical committees of the National Radio Systems Committee, Consumer Electronics Association, and Audio Engineering Society. He is a current Co-Chair of the AES Technical Committee for Broadcast and Online Delivery.

Candidate for AES Governor

BRECHT DE MAN is a sound engineer, educator, and founder of Semantic Audio Labs. He holds a PhD in Audio Engineering from Queen Mary University of London’s Centre for Digital Music (supported in part by the AES Educational Foundation), and an MSc and BSc in from the University of Ghent, Belgium. During this time, he has also spent time at ETH Zürich, Switzerland and McGill University, Canada. After working as a postdoctoral researcher and Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London and Birmingham City University, he set out to make these recent advances in audio technology available to audio engineers through a new company in Birmingham, UK.

He has published, presented and patented research on the perception of recording and mixing engineering, audio effect design, and the analysis of music production practices, most often at AES Conventions and Conferences or in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.

Brecht first took an active role in the AES as Chair of the then-dormant London UK Student Section, helping its membership to increase tenfold, vice chairing several editions of the flagship student event ‘Up Your Output!’ and advising on the British Section’s Committee. As elected Chair of the AES Student Delegate Assembly (SDA) he organized the student track at four Conventions and represented the 4,000+ AES Student Members across the globe. Since concluding his term, he has been Vice Chair of the AES Education Committee, overseeing the SDA and helping with the introduction of a system of institutional memory, a competition, and a MATLAB plugin design competition. Most recently, he revived the Belgian Professional Section as its new Chair. Brecht also sits on a number of Technical Committees (TCs), frequently reviews JAES and Convention papers, and has organized and participated in several AES Convention workshops.

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Having served the AES in several capacities at a local, regional and global level, I wish to use this experience and knowledge of the organization to help shape the Society’s direction.

I’m excited about joining in a time when the industry faces opportunities and challenges brought by new technologies while preserving its roots and traditions. With audio front and centre in VR/AR, smart speakers, streaming, and AI applications, my background in disruptive technologies can be in managing the AES’s growth in this area.

My main, continuing goal is to enhance the value the Society offers to its varied membership. Candidate for AES Governor

PAUL HENNERICH - In his 20-plus years in audio and more than a decade as a member and in officer positions in professional organizations, Paul has brought together and advanced the interests of the audio community.

As an officer on the initial committee, Paul helped revive the Saint Louis Section of the AES in 2007. The Section brought an unusually large local audio community together.

Serving first as Treasurer and now as Vice-Chair, Paul has helped continue this focus, including outreach efforts to kindred organizations, from NARAS to acoustical societies and hi-fi clubs.

Getting his start in live sound and theatrical sound design, Paul performed almost every possible job in the industry. From system support, to sound design, to recording and producing, he has developed great relationships with audio professionals from all walks of life.

In addition to numerous freelance projects, Paul is in his 23rd season as recording engineer with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, where his work has included producing a nationally syndicated radio program and current regional TV broadcasts and live radio broadcasts.

He is currently spearheading the Live Streaming Project with Jazz Saint Louis, and will continue teaching recording to its Jazz U program. This builds on his passion for education: He has taught as an adjunct faculty member at Webster University for years, leading classes including mixing and mastering.

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As a member of the Board of Governors, I would like to help the organization to build the audio community, from students and hobbyists to professionals and corporations.

I would help grow the AES on a micro level which will help on a macro scale. I would like to help the national create and grow active local and Student Sections. We have a robust Section in Saint Louis with bi-monthly meetings regularly topping attendance of 20-30 people. We have done this with little expense. By increasing our local Sections, we can become more relevant to corporations again.

Candidate for AES Governor

DAVID J MURPHY, MIE(Aust) CPEng, AES Fellow, is a South Australian Adelaide-based chartered professional engineer, who has been designing systems for Krix Loudspeakers since 1996. He joined Krix after a career in electronic at the Regency Institute of TAFE (equivalent to a U.S. two year college). His Regency Institute career gave him experience in the education and support of young professionals, and he facilitated several Women in Engineering initiatives. He began his career as a radio apprentice, radio technician, and gained a degree in Electronic Engineering while at the Philips Hendon Works in Adelaide. He has maintained a continuous interest in audio throughout his career.

He has extensive experience with electro-acoustic modelling and has developed a commercially successful range of acoustic horns, integrating them into 3-way and 4-way cinema screen systems. He holds Australian and U.S. patents on aspects of acoustic horn design. At Krix Loudspeakers he uses COMSOL Multiphysics Finite Element Analysis and SolidWorks 3D CAD extensively, and electro-acoustic measurement systems such as MLSSA, Praxis, EASERA, and the AcoustX D2. He has undertaken technical support visits to South Korea, Japan and China for Krix Loudspeakers in 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2016. More recently he has developed modelling and simulation of the low frequency behavior of custom cinema installations for Krix. He is currently guiding Krix Loudspeakers through the process to attain ISO 17025 accreditation.

An AES Fellow since 2006, David Murphy has been a Vice President of the International Region for four years, a Governor for two years, and is presently a member of the AES Technical Committee TC-AC (Audio for Cinema) and Standards Committees SC-04-08 Measurement and of Sound Systems in Rooms and SC-04-03 Loudspeaker Modeling and Measurement.

He has presented papers/workshops at AES International Conventions in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, and Australian Regional Conventions in Sydney and Melbourne. He has been an active AES Member since 1987 and has been the Chair of the Adelaide Section of the AES for many years. The Section provides a forum for the local audio industry and selected interest groups and promotes education and information about all sectors of the industry. It is very active, holding 10 meetings a year, mostly presentations about technical matters, but with visits to places of interest as well.

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I feel that as our AES evolves, it needs a modern and energetic approach to promoting and monetizing our activities as well as the broader industrial and societal challenges we face today. In this context I feel I can support the AES Board of Governors with my knowledge and experience, and contribute to the growth of the AES. It would be a great pleasure to serve the members of the Society to further develop the organization, striving to make it accessible to all. I personally have gained much from my membership and want to be able to encourage others to join, particularly in the Asia-Pacific Region.

Candidate for AES Governor

VALERIA PALOMINO studied piano at the National School of Music of the UNAM and received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana. She has worked in professional audio since 1993 and has specialized in editing systems and from their inception. She was chief engineer in the control room of Nezahualcoyotl Concert Hall, considered the premiere concert hall in Latin America. She worked there from 1995 to 2005, and conducted the recording and transmission of radio and television for more than 800 live . She has collaborated either as recording engineer, or and editor on more than 80 albums with major orchestras and ensembles of Mexico. Valeria has participated in many workshops and tutorials about microphones and their specific applications within the orchestra and solo instruments in different locations, both studios and concert halls. She has worked as at the Instituto Mexicano de la Radio, Estudio 19, International Festival of New Music, and Music and Performance International Festival, among others. Some career highlights include recording music for movies: Frida (Julie Taymor, 2002 Oscar winner for Best Music), Zurdo (Carlos Salces, 2003, Ariel winner for Best Music), The Crime of Father Amaro (Carlos Carrera, 2002, nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film), and Walkout (Edward James Olmos, 2006), among others.

She has been a full Member of the AES since 2011, and has taken part in the board of the Mexico Section since then. She was Vice President AES Latin American Region for four years, and she was Co-Chair for three AES Latin American Conventions and she is Co-Chair for eight AES México Conventions that happen annually in that Section. Valeria is internationally well connected within the audio community and well known in her region because she has given several specialized lectures about music production and recording of symphony orchestras.

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Every collaborative process is necessary to reach goals beyond us as individuals. The AES seeks to establish secure and solid relationships among the audio community, and collaborative work is the key to achieving it.

Thanks to my experience before as a Treasurer of my Section, then the Vice President of the Region, I have been given many communication tools with which I have been able to establish connections with many people with different visions. After that I’ve been able to manage projects where all those opinions could converge.

I want to offer all my skills as an organizer in favor of the association, to favor the extension of the membership and the manifestation of constructive ideas for the future of the AES.

Candidate for AES Governor

MAGDALENA PIOTROWSKA (PLEWA) is an active and educator based in Poland. Magdalena received the doctoral degree with distinction at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology (GUT), Poland. Her thesis “Automatic Mood Indexing of Music Excerpts based on Correlation Between Subjective Evaluation and Feature Vector” was dedicated to Music Information Retrieval. Uniting her passion for sound and international travel, Magdalena participated in postgraduate studies in Music Production and Recording at the University of Stavanger in Norway as well as in the recording program at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada).

In 2016 she established Hear Candy Mastering, where she provides mastering for artists across a diverse range of musical genres, including Quantum Trio (PL), MoMo (PL), Kapela Timingeriu (PL), Merkabah (PL), Hrdza (SL), KARI (UK), Oly.(PL), Knut Kvifte Nesheim (NO) and Annalie Wilson (UK). A production that she worked on has been nominated numerous times for a Fryderyki Awards.

Since 2013 Magdalena has served the Society as Governor, Education Committee Vice Chair and being involved in Convention committees as Workshops & Tutorials Co-Chair and Student and Career track in Europe and the U.S. Recently she is Education Committee Chair. Magdalena is one of the founding members of the AES Student Section in Krakow, Poland (2009) and was elected to the AES Student Delegate Assembly (2010-2012) culminating in her serving as Education and Student Events Co-Chair for the 132nd AES Convention in Budapest. She is a co-founder of the Central European Student Summit, an annual event that brings together European AES Student members.

Magdalena has lead classes in audio subjects at universities in Poland (AGH, AMA, Kraków; PJWSTK, Warszawa, Gdansk University of Technology, Uniwersystet Śląski, Cieszyn). She is one of the co-founders of educational initiative Learn How To Sound, organizing workshops and courses in the field of audio. Magdalena was awarded the Ministers of Science and Higher Education Scholarship as well as study grants from the Committee for International Research and Education, the Acoustical Society of America and the Audio Engineering Society Educational Foundation.

Magdalena was involved in numerous research projects in the fields of acoustics and audio engineering as well as in educational initiatives. She is the author and co-author of scientific papers presented at numerous international conferences, including AES Conventions. Her main scientific interests are music information retrieval, , signal processing and connections between science and practical application in the field of audio technology.

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I hope to bring a fresh perspective to the Board of Governors. With new tools for connection and communication, I look to create engagement for younger members, female members and members from regions that may have been overlooked and underserved in the past. I feel that my experience with starting new AES Student Sections, organizing and implementing events and opportunities for students and younger members gives me a unique understanding of how to build the AES for generations to come.