Reporte del VP de AES América Latina al "Board of Governors".
It is my pleasure to report that the Latin American Conference 2009 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, was a success. On May 26th through 28th, the Anhembi Parque (largest convention center in Latin America) has been the venue for a series of seminars, workshops and technical presentations, together with a large exhibition hall and a huge live sound demo space. The presentations were amazing, with speakers from all over Latin America but also from the US, Europe and Japan. We were truly honored with the presence of highly renowned professionals such as Kimio Hamasaki, Ron Streicher, Florian Camerer, Wes Dooley, John Storyk and Phil Ramone. People gratefully attended every seminar, from 20 minutes paper presentations to 5+ hours seminars like the one Ron Streicher and Wes Dooley did on the second day of the Conference.
We also organized the first Latin American Student Recording Competition, which had more than 60 entries from 6 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela) in different categories (Surround Classical & Non-Classical, Stereo Pop/Rock, Classical and Electronic). Finalists defended their work on stage and the members of the Jury were able to pick winners on each category, much like in the International Competitions. We had sponsoring from well known brands which offered valuable prizes for the winners of the Competition.
We (all the members of AES Brazil and myself) had a great deal of difficult issues to resolve and we all learned from them, so it was a very rich experience overall. I want to congratulate Joel Brito, Chairman AES Brazil, for chairing this event with all his passion and love for the AES. I also want to thank deeply all the guest speakers that came all the way down to give their time and share their knowledge, they really made this Conference a unique event that Latin America will treasure forever. Last but not least I´d like to thank the AES Brazil committee for their great work at all times, Marcela Zorro for coordinating the Recording Competition and Josh Tidsbury & Ezequiel Morfi for their generous help on web and FTP issues.
Since this is my last Latin American Conference as a VP, I hope that I have contributed to set a trend that will continue in the upcoming years with great educational events on a regional level in any part of the world, for the benefit of the entire Society.
With warmest regards.
Andrés Mayo
AES VP Latin America
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A todos los participantes.
En primer lugar, queremos agradecerles su participación en la Primera Competencia Latinoamericana de Grabación de AES. El jurado ha evaluado los trabajos presentados por ustedes y ha seleccionado a aquellos que se presentarán en la final que tendrá lugar dentro del marco de la 3ra Conferencia Latinoamericana AES, del 26 al 28 de mayo de 2009 en San Pablo, Brasil. Nuestras felicitaciones a aquellos que han resultado finalistas entre los numerosos trabajos recibidos, y animar a todos a participar en próximas ediciones. Estamos convencidos de que el número de participantes, la calidad de sus trabajos y los premios que concedamos crecerán en el futuro.
Atentamente,
The Audio Engineering Society
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Finalistas de la Primera Competencia de Grabación
(Publicados en orden alfabético)
Stereo - Classical
Carlos Eduardo Byington, Fabio Wanderley Janhan Sousa, Angemyr Lezama
Stereo - Pop/Rock
Santiago Camacho, Nicolas Romero, Jefferson Rosas, Hugo Vejar
Stereo - Electronic
John Brown, Guillermo Tinoco Silva Caceres
Surround
Juan Carlos Aleman, Martin Junger, Sussy Valenzuela
Los finalistas de cada categoría deben preparar una presentación corta (tipo PowerPoint de aproximadamente 10 minutos) describiendo la configuración y procedimiento de la grabación, destinando además el tiempo necesario para la audición de la misma. Estas presentaciones ocurrirán durante las sesiones de la competencia de grabación que tendrán lugar en el marco de la 3era Conferencia Latinoamericana AES, frente a una audiencia formada por asistentes a la conferencia y un jurado calificador. Solicitamos a los finalistas incluir fotos o diagramas de configuración de micrófonos y de sesiones de mezcla y masterización. El jurado tendrá la oportunidad de hacer preguntas y comentarios a los finalistas antes de tomar una decisión final. Los premios serán entregados a los finalistas el último día de la conferencia.
