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Slate of Candidates and Biographical Information
The nominations committee
has proposed the following Slate of Candidates:
Officers
 Greg Dixon teaches courses
in Advanced Composition and Sound Design at DigiPen.
He holds a Ph.D. in music composition with a specialization in computer music
from the University of North Texas, where he worked as a composition teaching
fellow, recording engineer, and technical assistant for The Center for
Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI). Greg received his M.M. in Music
Composition and B.M. in Music Engineering Technology from Ball State
University.
His
compositional research focuses on electronic music and interactive music
systems for games, acoustic instruments, sensor technologies, and human
interface devices.
Greg has
worked for more than fifteen years as a professional sound engineer, which
has greatly influenced his strategies for designing sounds in the studio. In
addition, he has served as a producer, recording engineer, arranger,
performer, mixer, and mastering engineer on dozens of commercially available
recordings in a wide variety of genres.
 Bob has a BSEE from the
University of Washington and has worked in the Biomedical industry for over
30 years. The last 20 years he has spent developing acoustic research and
audio engineering disciplines for Styker/Physio-Control
to improve speech intelligibility for medical device voice prompting and
voice recording systems in noisy environments. He is responsible for voice
prompting in 30+ languages. The department now handles acoustic measurements
of components such as drivers, microphone capsules and system measurements including
Thiele-Small parameters, polar plots, waterfalls, frequency response, impulse
response, several speech intelligibility methods, etc.
When he's
not playing acoustic/audio monkey for his corporate master, he runs an
acoustic lab, SoundSmith Labs. From time to time,
he can also be found recording local musical talents. Currently he is
comparing several hardware and software acoustic / audio measurement systems
to assess how much they vary and to the degree they converge on similar
results.
 Gary has been the recording
engineer for the University of Washington School of Music since 1979,
previously earning his BSEE at the UW. He has served as AES PNW Section
Chair, Vice Chair, Committee, and most recently, Secretary since 1993. Gary
is also the co-author, with Glenn White, of the Audio Dictionary 3rd
Ed.
- Treasurer — Lawrence Schwedler
 Lawrence Schwedler is a
musician with twenty years of experience in the video game industry as a
composer, sound designer, and audio director. In 1993 he graduated with a
Master of Fine Arts degree in classical guitar performance and electronic
music from the University of California at Los Angeles. He was a founding
member of the Modern Arts Guitar Quartet, an avant-garde chamber ensemble
which toured Europe, Mexico, Canada and the U.S.
From 1999
to 2012 he worked for Nintendo Software Technology as Audio Director, where
he produced music and sound for fifteen game titles and received credit as
co-author on two United States patents, one for interactive real time music
composition and another for interactive wave table sound generation. In 2012
he left Nintendo to design and direct two new undergraduate degree programs
in music and sound design at the DigiPen Institute
of Technology in Redmond.
He lives
in Sammamish, Washington with his wife, artist Randi Ganulin,
accompanied from time to time by their son and daughter.
Section Committee (alphabetical
order) There are 5 committee positions open, and 5 people vying to fill
those positions. Our by-laws stipulate that new nominations can occur for any
open position at the meeting called for the election: the June meeting. You
can self-nominate, with a second needed, or nominate someone else who has
agreed to run and serve if elected, also with a second needed.
Long time Committee member Steve
Malott, recently retired from the Music Technology Department at Shoreline
Community College. will become a Committee Member At-Large. In this appointed
position, he'll be the executive producer of our meetings.
The top 5 vote getters are elected
to fill the Committee positions. Persons serving must be AES members by the
time of the summer planning meeting.
 Jess has been working as a
live sound engineer for over 17 years, and has been recording sound since she
got her first Tascam four-track cassette recorder in 1996. Born and raised in
Minnesota, and being a lifelong musician, Jess decided to pursue her audio
engineering and production education at The Institute of Production and
Recording in 2002. She wanted to learn how to better record her own music and
fell in love with working behind the scenes. She starting running sound in
the local jazz clubs in 2003, and in 2004 was the assistant engineer for Skywynd's Escape Plan album. The next year, while
still running sound in the jazz clubs, she also began working at Voiceworks,
one of the top local voiceover studios, as their dub room engineer. In 2006,
Jess became the Concert & Event Coordinator for the Minneapolis Park
& Recreation Board, booking over 220 shows at five outdoor venues between
June 1-Labor Day. During this time she was also a
founding member of the JLR Foundation, a non-profit to help inner-city youth
gain access to real-world recording technology in the parks. In 2009 she left
the parks to work at The Institute of Production & Recording as the
Academic Coordinator and co-instructor for their immersive SXSW course. Jess
got her BS in Media Business at a sister school during this time, and
continued to run sound at the Dakota Jazz Club. She was also a founding
member of the Twin Cities Mobile Jazz Project, a non-profit aimed at
providing under-privileged youth direct access to instruments and mentors
from the greater MN music community.
In 2013,
Jess moved to Los Angeles to pursue a touring career. She got her first gig a
few months later, as the Front of House engineer and Tour Manager for a
direct support act on a six-week North American club tour. The woman who
hired her was an A-level tour manager and taught her everything she knew.
This gig led to many more, and Jessica has since toured the world as a Front
of House Engineer, Monitor Engineer, Tour Manager, and Production Manager,
depending on the client's needs. During this time
she also volunteered for a few years with SoundGirls,
worked production at Coachella, and had local audio and production gigs in
L.A. while in between tours with various production companies like Showpro, Rat Sound and Bigger Hammer. In 2017, Jessica
decided to go back to school and pursue a Master of Arts in Music Industry
Administration. She graduated in 2019 and moved to the Seattle area to base
her tour life closer to nature, where she connected with the AES PNW Section
and officially became an AES member. Jess began working as a house engineer
with the local AEG venues (Showbox, Showbox SoDo)
in between tours, and also picked up audio gigs with Eighth Day Sound in
SoCal. In 2020, she signed on to work freelance A2 live audio gigs with
Microsoft, and was a part of their shift to live event broadcasting from
their production studios when covid hit. She continues to network and
participate in music and audio discussions about the future of our industry
while figuring out her next adventures. Jess and her rescue dog currently
reside in Bellingham, WA.
 Dr. Angela Dane lives in
Seattle, Washington, and teaches Women's Studies at the local community
college. Her book, Sabina Spielrein: The Woman
and the Myth was selected for the Gold Medal in Adult Nonfiction by
Foreword Reviews in 2017. She is a Staff Writer and Editor for Tom Tom Magazine, the only publication in the world
dedicated to female and non-binary percussionists. She owns and operates the
only female and black-owned drum studio in Seattle dedicated to empowering
women through the drum kit, Atrocity Drums. Additionally, she is the drummer
for the all-female heavy rock band Atrocity Girl, whose members are recording
and engineering their own debut album through a self-built home studio under
the auspices of their LLC. She is currently enrolled in the University of
Washington's Audio Production Certificate Program in order to learn the ropes
of recording and started Seattle's Womxn & Audio Facebook Group to
connect to and collaborate with others in the community.
Gear Fanatix,
a site for underrepresented voices
 Micah Hayes is the
Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Director of Music Production at
Seattle Pacific University, a position he began in the fall of 2020. He is a
recording engineer and composer who began his musical career as a guitarist
in his native Southern California. He began recording and composing music as
a student at California State University, Chico where he completed a BA in
Music with an emphasis in Recording Arts. After college, he continued his
audio career with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida where he was
the Recording Engineer Fellow from 2000-2002. After receiving a master's
degree in music composition from the University of Oregon, Micah moved to New
York where he worked as the live sound engineer for Redeemer Presbyterian
Church's Upper West Side services, while also freelancing as a composer,
recording engineer, and educator for a couple of years before accepting a
teaching position at the University of Texas at Arlington. As a professor at
UT Arlington, he helped create the Music Industry Studies area, overseeing
the area's growth from 8 to 70 majors. In the summers, he engineered music at
the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2001 and at the Aspen Music Festival where
he was a Senior Recording Engineer from 2003-05.
He began
working as a film composer after being the sole recipient of the ASCAP
Foundation Fellowship for Film Scoring and Composition at the Aspen Music
Festival in 2006 where he studied with such composers as John Corigliano and Jeff Rona. As a film composer, he has
scored multiple projects including Wolf, a film by Ya'Ke
Smith that premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival, and the short
film Dawn, which aired on HBO several times.
 James D. (jj) Johnston is Chief Scientist of Immersion Networks. He
has a long and distinguished career in electrical engineering, audio science,
and digital signal processing. His research and product invention spans
hearing and psychoacoustics, perceptual encoding, and spatial audio
methodologies.
He was
one of the first investigators in the field of perceptual audio coding, one
of the inventors and standardizers of MPEG 1/2 audio Layer 3 and MPEG-2 AAC.
Most recently, he has been working in the area of auditory perception and
ways to expand the limited sense of realism available in standard audio
playback for both captured and synthetic performances.
Johnston
worked for AT&T Bell Labs and its successor AT&T Labs Research for
two and a half decades. He later worked at Microsoft and then Neural Audio
and its successors before joining Immersion. He is an IEEE Fellow, an AES
Fellow, a NJ Inventor of the Year, an AT&T Technical Medalist and Standards
Awardee, and a co-recipient of the IEEE Donald Fink Paper Award. In 2006, he
received the James L. Flanagan Signal Processing Award from the IEEE Signal
Processing Society, and presented the 2012 Heyser
Lecture at the AES 133rd Convention: Audio, Radio, Acoustics and Signal
Processing: the Way Forward. In 2021, along with
two colleagues, Johnston was awarded the Industrial Innovation Award
by the Signal Processing Society "for contributions to the
standardization of audio coding technology."
JJ received
the BSEE and MSEE degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA in
1975 and 1976 respectively.
 Dr. Mike Matesky, a PNW AES member for over twenty years and
current program committee member, has a Doctorate in Music from the
University of Washington, has been a university professor of music, taught
advanced audio engineering and been recorded on over one hundred commercial
albums.
He was
principal cello of numerous orchestras as well as the 5th Avenue Theater
orchestra and has played with many touring artists. His father worked at nine
motion picture studios in Los Angeles.
Dr. Mike
has won national awards for audio and video productions. Opus 4 Studios,
designed and owned by Dr. Mike, is a highly advanced audio/video recording
studio with the world's most controllable acoustics featuring LARES. The
studio features two grand pianos. Designed and built from the ground up by
Dr. Mike, the Large Room (as measured by fellow AES member Bob Smith) is
extraordinarily quiet and articulate.
Opus 4
Studios, has posted approximately 1200 viewable audio/videos on
YouTube.com>opus4.
Dr. Mike
is eternally grateful for the valuable assistance he has received and
continues to receive from fellow AES members.
 Dan is President of Dansound Inc., which specializes in live sound
reinforcement. He is currently serving on the Committee, and has previously
held the posts of Chair, Vice-Chair, and Treasurer. After 30 years on the
Committee, Dan continues to find that serving the AES PNW Section in one
capacity or another is still one of his favorite things.
For
nearly a year, he's been hosting a weekly Section Zoom meeting called
"Tea Time Topics" in which a bunch of really smart people share
presentations about something they are interested in (a wide range of
topics!) and the 50th meeting is rapidly approaching. It's open to all, and
info can be found at www.aes.org/sections/pnw/ttt
For
almost 13 years he has enjoyed researching the history of CBS's 30th St.
recording studio, home to the Section's late friend Frank Laico;
much of that research can be found online at forums.stevehoffman.tv...
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