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Ian Young and Gavin Paddock took home a 2011 HollyShorts award for Best Music for their work on filmmaker JT Mollner's 15-minute one-take war film "Sugartown." Executed in one continuous take, the film features a score composed, performed and recorded by Young and Paddock, completely comprised of percussion instruments including gongs, Tibetan singing bowls, and bowed cymbals. Sugartown, from NoRemake Pictures/Burnt Pictures was selected out of a field of over 300 short films in this year's festival.
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The new book by Alex Case is out in time for summer reading. Don't wait for the movie, the book'll be better.
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Bradford Swanson (MM:SRT 2012) lends his smile to help spread the word on the benefits of AES membership, featured in Pro Sound News.
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Don't miss Bob Mallory (BM:SRT 2006) in the August issue of Mix Magazine, shown with Jacquire King and the rest of the Kings of Leon gang at Avatar. New gear is in, running, and ready for the semester to start: a pair of LA-3As, and the Bricasti reverb are of note in 213.
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Gavin Paddock (MM:SRT 2010 & BM:SRT 2007) played tambourine with Jon Brion at Largo in Los Angeles, taking solos on cue from the master himself. This review of the show even makes mention of the tambourine player.
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Studio upgrades and acquisitions continue:
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Matt Zimmern (MM:SRT 2010 & BM:SRT 2007) was awarded Second Place in the ASA Architectural Acoustics Student Paper competition for his paper at the Acousical Society of America conference in Baltimore, titled: "Soul spaces: How acoustics influence the music production process and the recordings that result." The paper presented some highlights of his Masters Thesis to experts in acoustics from around the world. Alex U. Case was elected Chair, Technical Committee for Architectural Acoustics at the Acoustical Society of America.
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Dr. John Shirley was elected Chair of the Music Department, beginning a 3 year term of service to the department in January of 2010.
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Game Creek Video of New Hampshire has donated an SSL 8000GB to the Sound Recording Technology Program. They were generous enough to convert a recent console upgrade into this major gift. Design and install is underway - get ready for a new 205. Major tip of the SRT Whirly Beanie to alumni working at Game Creek: Pat Drumm, Joe Flynn, Keith Martin, and Brian Wong. Their success has benefited the whole program. At last, Professor Case can put "Name Here End Mix Execute End Execute [taste code] Play Mix From Cue kazoosolo To Cue singalong Execute" on a quiz!
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MeiLing Loo is first student featured in AES ads, following none other than Phil Ramone and Bob Ludwig. Look for the ads in Pro Sound News and elsewhere.
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SRT Students, Shawn Bernardo, Dave Crepeault, Matt Gansenberg, Philippe LeSaux, MeiLing Loo received Honorable Mention in the 2009 Shure Fantastic Scholastic Recording Competition, recording the song "Down The River" written and performed by Dusty and the Know.
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The Sound Recording Technology control room in Durgin 213 at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, featuring the API Vision and Studer A827, was featured on the cover of Mix Magazine.
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SRT Professor Alex U. Case appointed Chair of the Education Committee of the Audio Engineering Society.
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MeiLing Loo, SRT class of 2009, was elected Vice Chair, North and South America, for the Student Delegate Assembly of the Audio Engineering Society. This is a two year tracked position in which she is Vice Chair for one year, and Chair for the second. She is one of only four students elected to office by the entire student membership of the Audio Engineering Society.
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UMass Lowell reaffirms commitment to all professional formats by acquiring a brand new (i.e. low hours) old 2" analog multitrack, the perfect complement to our Apogee AD/DA 16X and SSL AlphaLink converters:
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LOWELL – When the Grammy Awards are presented in Los Angeles this weekend, two UMass Lowell alums may be called to the stage. Adam Ayan and Mark Donahue, both graduates of UMass Lowell’s Sound Recording Technology Program, are nominated for the recording industry’s most prestigious honor. The 50th Annual Grammy Awards will be presented on Sunday, Feb. 10. Ayan is nominated for his work on country artist Vince Gill’s “These Days,” which is competing for Album of the Year against CDs by Kanye West, Amy Winehouse, Foo Fighters and Herbie Hancock. Album of the Year is awarded to the artist, as well as the producer, recording engineer, mixer and mastering engineer. Ayan, who graduated from UML in 1997, served as mastering engineer on the CD. Ayan, originally from Malden, lives in Portland, Maine, where he works at Gateway Mastering Studios. Donahue is nominated for his work as mastering engineer on one of the CDs in the running for Best Classical Album, “Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs.” Donahue, who lives in Malden and is originally from Longmeadow, works for Soundmirror Inc. in Boston. Ayan – who won a Grammy two years ago in the Best Historical Album category for his work on a boxed set of jazz great Jelly Roll Morton’s music and two Latin Grammys in 2007 for recordings with Juan Luis Guerra – said his UML experience helped him in two important ways. “It opened my ears to listening to music as an audio engineer, as opposed to a lay listener or even a musician. How you listen as an engineer is a very different way,” Ayan said, adding that UML also helped him build the work ethic needed to be successful. “The program is structured in a way you really have to work hard to do well and I think that’s indicative of the industry itself. I felt really well-prepared when I got out for how hard I was going to have to work in the industry.” “We are not surprised that these two talented graduates have been nominated for these prestigious awards, and the SRT faculty takes great pride in their accomplishments,” said Prof. William Moylan, a Ph.D. and SRT program coordinator. UMass Lowell’s Sound Recording Technology Program, part of the University’s Department of Music, is one of only a few in the United States. In the past, breaking into the recording business meant training informally as an apprentice. UML’s program focuses on giving students strong formal training, including the practical experience and theoretical background needed for success in the industry. Getting the right training is particularly important because of the rush of new technologies in recent years that have revolutionized the recording industry as well as giving recording professionals a wide range of opportunities in new media. “These nominations mean a great deal to the SRT program. Recording positions are highly competitive and extraordinarily demanding. This proves that the intensive experience provided by our program brings our graduates significant opportunities to lead in today’s recording and audio industries,” Moylan said. UMass Lowell, with a national reputation in science, engineering and technology, is committed to educating students for lifelong success in a diverse world and conducting research and outreach activities that sustain the economic, environmental and social health. UML offers its 11,000 students more than 120 degree choices, internships, five-year combined bachelor’s to master’s programs and doctoral studies in the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Management, the School of Health and Environment, and the Graduate School of Education. www.uml.edu. |
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